The Most Accurate NFL Quarterback List Is Getting Crushed

Some of the stats may surprise fans who have a different perception of the players he follows.

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On Wednesday, the Fox Sports NFL Twitter account shared a list titled "Warren Sharpe's Most Accurate QB."

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"Without any additional context, anyone encountering the tweet will assume it was Sharp's subjective ranking.

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And if that were the case, anyone except Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady, and Aaron Rodgers making the top quarterback list certainly seems crazy.

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Meanwhile, Jared Goff made the cut. As a result, many fans thought that she was being trolled by her weird ranking.

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Yet as Sharp explained, this was last year's leaderboard for on-target percentage, an advanced metric measuring quarterback accuracy.

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There weren't many obvious standout artists at the top of the pack;

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Rodgers finished 12th with 78 percent, while Derek Carr's 79 percent finished fourth.

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"Fact, not opinion: the most accurate QB of 2021," Sharp wrote.

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"Sorry if your QB wasn't accurate enough to rank top-10 last year. Hopefully he'll be more accurate in 2022."

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The data shows some interesting trends. Rodgers feasted when able to plant his feet but struggled on the run.

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Brady was completing his worst medium throw, and Mahomes was better able to exploit zone coverage than the man.

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Yet all that was lost in an easily digestible graphic presented as the equivalent of Power Rankings.

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It's also amazing to feel some middling quarterbacks on this chart (Goff, Ryan Tanhill, Tua Tagovailoa)

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Padded his accuracy rate on short strikes without giving the defense downfield.

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Of course he is not the top-10 quarterback of the league. If anything, this situation shows that accuracy is only one piece of the puzzle.

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If anything, this situation shows that accuracy is only one piece of the puzzle.

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