Anthony Lynn just announced it.— James Palmer October 8, 2020Justin. He did not throw an interception, didnt fumble and was sacked two times.Justin Herbert will be starting for the #chargers moving forward. - Justin Herbert was 25 of 38 for 222 yards and threw three touchdown passes Monday in the Los Angeles Chargers 28-14 win over the Las Vegas Raiders. 3:07 GMT 11:07 8:07 PM MST 9:07 PM CST 10:07 PM EST 9:07 PM CT 7:07 UAE (+1) 23:07 ET 2:07.
Justin Patrick Herbert (born March 10, 1998) is an American football quarterback for the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). Player stats at NFL.com PFR. It was official: Herbert was there to stay.6. Following Week 4 of the 2020 NFL season and Herbert’s 3 rd career start, Anthony Lynn announced that Herbert would be the starting QB for the remainder of the season. He averaged 310 passing yards per game over his next 2 starts, throwing 4 touchdowns to only 2 interceptions over that time. Taylor’s return to the helm would never happen, however, as Herbert never looked back from his stellar first outing.
Joe Burrow (1 st Overall to the Cincinnati Bengals) and Tua Tagovailoa (5 th Overall to the Miami Dolphins) were the 2 quarterbacks taken in front of Herbert, while Jordan Love (26 th Overall to the Green Bay Packers) and Jalen Hurts (53 rd Overall to the Philadelphia Eagles) rounded out the group of QBs drafted in the first 3 rounds.Of this group of five quarterbacks, four are now the starting QBs for their team. Justin Herbert: Pacing His PeersJustin Herbert was the 6 th overall selection of the 2020 NFL Draft, making him the 3 rd QB off of the board and 1 of 5 quarterbacks drafted in the first 3 rounds of that draft. Assuming he maintained the same averages in that one additional game, Herbert would have thrown for 4,625.12 yards and 33.12 touchdowns while completing 422.40 passes on 634.67 attempts.Such numbers would have been good enough for rookie records in passing yards, passing touchdowns, and completions, all by comfortable margins. As an exercise, Herbert’s stats can be extrapolated over the entire 16 games by using his rookie year per game averages.
In fact, Herbert not only leads this group in passing completions, but he also recently became the fastest player in the Super Bowl era to complete 500 passes, requiring only 19 games to do so.Justin Herbert completed his 500th pass on #MondayNightFootball, in only his 19th NFL startHerbert is the first QB in the Super Bowl era to reach 500+ completions before his 20th NFL start— NFL Research OctoImpressive EfficiencyWith that being said, due to injuries (Burrow and Tagovailoa) and initial depth chart placement (Hurts), Herbert has also played the most games of this group thus far. He has thrown for the most yards, thrown the most touchdowns, and completed the most passes of this group. Stats courtesy of Pro Football Reference.Herbert currently leads Burrow, Tua, and Hurts in all major passing categories. Comparison of career stats thus far. Table 1 below allows for a quick comparison of the to-date NFL stats of the rest of this group. Even so, Love has been left out of this analysis simply due to a lack of substantial NFL game action.
As such, it makes sense to compare Herbert’s career start to those of the elite QBs drafted in the few years prior to Herbert’s own draft.For the sake of this analysis, one consistently impactful quarterback from each of the 3 drafts before Herbert’s own class were selected. They are also trying to challenge the “current guard” in the NFL. Taking His Place Among the EliteWhen young quarterbacks entire the NFL, they aren’t only looking to surpass those in their own draft class.
Stats courtesy of Pro Football Reference.As can be seen from the tables above, Justin Herbert has immediately inserted himself into the conversation for one of the best young QBs in the game today. Rushing Stats (first 21 starts). Passing Stats (first 21 starts). However, this analysis is primarily focused on the first 21 starts of each quarterback’s career (as that is the number of starts that Herbert has made in total thus far), so preference was given to those who made an immediate impact after taking over the starting role.Total and volume-adjusted passing and rushing statistics for the first 21 starts of each member of this group can be found below. Given his recent progression, Josh Allen (QB, Buffalo Bills) would make for an interesting comparison as well.
Inevitably, the names of legends, both made and in-the-making, get thrown around. Justin Herbert: A Further Statistical ComparisonWhen discussing a player’s success, fans never want to limit themselves to comparisons to other rookies or relatively young players. Again, Herbert has a slightly lower completion percentage than Mahomes (0.05%), though this negligible difference may actually grant the edge to Herbert given the considerable difference in attempts per game.
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