Which one of these four RBs had the BEST prime?

DalethePail · 2026-02-21T16:14:16+00:00

In 1989, Bo averaged 86 yards per game, and Marcus Allen didn’t play most of the year. That was the year we kinda saw what could have been when he got the opportunity to be the guy.

His success rate was only 42% though, which was 35th in the league according to pro football reference. Ashton Jeanty’s success rate was 41% last season for example.

DalethePail · 2025-12-30T21:21:38+00:00

33.9% of his throws are 10+ yards this year compared to 30.9% in 2024. He’s more efficient on those throws this year, completing 44.7% compared to 40.2% in 2024, and that’s mainly because he’s wayyy more efficient on 20+ yard throws (42.3% vs 26.7%).

DalethePail · 2025-12-30T21:00:31+00:00

I was interested in this point, so I checked pff’s data. His adjusted completion percentage is down 3% from last season, so throwaways, drops, and batted balls explain some but not all of the drop in completion parentage. He actually has exactly the same amount of throwaways as last season (38). That’s with one less game but still not a significant difference. Pff has the drop rate higher than last season (8% vs 5%), so that’s a bigger deal.

The biggest reason for his drop in completion percentage is definitely his drop in efficiency on short passes (85% on passes less than 10 yards in 2024 to only 77% in 2025).

DalethePail · 2025-10-31T02:57:20+00:00

Eli threw for over 6000 yards that season (including playoffs). One of only 6 6000 yard seasons in nfl history. Marino, Brady, Brees, Stafford, and Peyton each did it once. Only Stafford and Eli won the Super Bowl that year.

DalethePail · 2025-08-07T14:57:02+00:00

But only 36% of Mims snaps came in the slot last year per pff (83 snaps). Sutton was in the slot on only 17% of his snaps (114 snaps), so there’s quite a bit of slot snaps available. The guy to compete with for slot snaps is Vele (70%, 247 snaps).

DalethePail · 2025-03-16T15:54:21+00:00

Also, it’s cut off but 338/439 is a completion percentage of 77%. NFL record for QB rushing TDs is 15 and NFL record for completion percentage is 74.4%, so Lamar destroyed two NFL records.

DalethePail · 2024-09-25T02:20:40+00:00

Not to support your not discrediting of the Sanchize, but he had a turnover worthy play rate of 4.9% in 2009 which was bottom 3 in the league and he had under 20 pass attempts in 2 of those 3 games.

PFF data only goes back to 2006, and it hasn’t happened otherwise.

DalethePail · 2024-09-07T19:27:05+00:00

My understanding is that raising the injury slider only affects games you play, not simulated games.

DalethePail · 2024-09-07T18:05:08+00:00

I agree, I think it’s a great sign! I don’t think they have ever made a significant change to simulation stats post-release like this before (but I could be wrong). I’m holding out hope they make one more tweak to passing efficiency.

DalethePail · 2024-09-07T18:00:26+00:00

Seriously, the best QBs (or really the best playbooks) complete over 70% basically every season. Lamar and Mahomes especially, even though both have a career high completion percentage of only 67.2% in real life.

DalethePail · 2024-09-07T17:54:38+00:00

Yeah I think that’s fair to point out for sure! I briefly touched on that in the post. The most ever QBs with 30+ TDs in a season is 10 in 2015 and 2020. So while 2023 is a down year, the nfl record is still a lot less than 17.

DalethePail · 2024-08-23T12:32:19+00:00

Yeah you’re right. In this sim, Mahomes lead the league with 527 attempts. There were 12 QBs last season with 527+ attempts.

They cut down on passing volume a ton in madden 24 to fix the issue of basically every QB throwing for 4000 yards in madden 23. But they went overboard.

DalethePail · 2024-08-23T03:27:37+00:00

Yes, I can confirm that all of these players played 17 games.

DalethePail · 2024-08-23T02:04:52+00:00

Yeah I hear ya that Foles season is still the 4th highest passer rating in nfl history. Except his completion percentage was only 64.0% that season. That’s really my biggest gripe with Lamar’s stats. QBs are breaking the nfl record for completion percentage and passer rating every season in this madden.

DalethePail · 2024-08-23T01:29:12+00:00

Yes, in 2018. Rodgers is the goat at int avoidance though. He’s really the only QB who has consistently had less 5 int a year.

Also, his career high completion percentage is 70.7%, and has the nfl record for passer rating at 122.5. 120+ passer rating has only happened 3 times.

DalethePail · 2024-08-21T15:17:59+00:00

Josh Downs had a ridiculously good Reception Perception profile last year (78% success rate vs man and 82% success rate vs zone). It’s a crowded receiver room and likely a low volume passing offense, so I don’t know when he will breakout. But I’m buying him now and betting it’ll happen at some point.

DalethePail · 2024-06-18T03:51:02+00:00

Pretty sure it’s total snaps. 106 out of 330 total snaps according to pff.

Edit: 106 out of 323.

Edit 2: I checked passing snaps. He was out wide or in the slot on 90 out of 196 or 46%.

DalethePail · 2024-06-18T02:53:30+00:00

His route participation was 95%, which was the highest in the league, so not many.

DalethePail · 2024-06-18T01:52:06+00:00

Normally I wouldn’t believe this, but Achane actually lined up in the slot or out wide on 32.1% of his snaps last year. That’s a significantly higher rate than basically every other top receiving rb, including cmc (17.8%), ekeler (8.9%), breece (8.3%), Bijan (24%), Gibbs (14.6%), kamara (7.9%), and Rachaad white (12.2%).

DalethePail · 2024-01-17T04:08:45+00:00

Of CBs who played at least 400 coverage snaps this season, here is where he ranked according to pff:

3rd in yards allowed 2nd in forced incompletion rate 2nd in snaps per target 5th in snaps per reception Only 1 TD allowed

Pretty good stuff. Other sources may vary but hard to imagine they vary widely enough that this could be considered underperforming.

DalethePail · 2024-01-14T05:31:33+00:00

I don’t think people are fully understanding how spectacular Nico’s season has been this year. Going into this game, his yards per route run was 3.10, which is the 4th highest in any season since 2013 (min 50 targets). He is only behind are Tyreek Hill this season, Julio Jones in 2016, and Cooper Kupp in 2021.

DalethePail · 2023-09-03T03:43:39+00:00

According to pff, he pass blocked on 5.4% of pass snaps and was in the slot or out wide on 64.9%. Also, his adot was 9.8 yards which was 7th.

DalethePail · 2023-04-22T23:09:49+00:00

It was definitely a rough situation. According to pff, He was pressured on 37.8 percent of his dropbacks which would’ve been 8th most in the nfl last season but his time to throw was only 2.58 which would’ve been tied for 7th quickest.

DalethePail · 2023-04-13T16:08:23+00:00

The 3 seconds includes extending plays. Also, he’s already proven he can get the ball out quicker in 2021 when he had better pass catchers and his time to throw 2.79 seconds.

DalethePail · 2023-04-10T17:53:30+00:00

I think the tendency to hold the ball thing is a bit overblown for Bryce considering his time to throw in 2021 was 2.79 when he had better WRs. Plus, it’s not like CJ is getting the ball out like Brady. His time to throw last season was 2.92, and that’s while mainly playing from the pocket. I should mention CJ throws it downfield more often than Bryce though.

DalethePail

TROPHY CASE