Why Russell Wilson looked much better protected in 2018

Kirby Lee-USA TODAY SportsOver the course of the 2018 season, fans and observers often raved about how much better the offensive line of the Seattle Seahawks was in pass protection compared to prior seasons, but as noted on Friday, many metrics showed only marginal improvement from 2017 to 2018. How can that be the case, though? How is it that what fans and observers are certain they saw is not coming through in the metrics?

There was near universal acclaim that Russell Wilson was afforded far better pass protection in this most recent season compared to the majority of the first six years of his career, so how could the metrics looked at on Friday show only a small improvement in pass…