Russell Wilson Setting Career Highs with Steelers | Steelers Morning Rush
Steelers Morning Rush: How goes has Russell Wilson been with the Steelers? He's obliterating his career high in one key QB stat.
Welcome to Steelers Morning Rush, our new daily short-form podcast with Alan Saunders, giving a longer perspective on a single news topic surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers or the National Football League. Today, it’s about what one stat says about how Russell Wilson is playing.
Adjusted net yards per attempt is a passing metric that take traditional yards per attempt, subtracts yardage lost due to sacks, and adds bonus yards for touchdowns thrown and penalty yards for interceptions thrown.
In terms of evaluating the contributions of a passer, ANY/A is probably the box-score statistic that does the best job. And according to ANY/A, Russell Wilson is not just playing well with the Steelers, he’s playing the best football of his entire career.
Through two games, Wilson has an ANY/A of 9.34. His best previous career single-season mark was 7.73, way back in 2015. Last year, Brock Purdy led the entire NFL at 9.01. That’s how good Wilson has been through two starts.
Alan breaks it down.
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