What players (and what type of players) get plays of 40+ yards? If you play in a league that has bonus points for long plays, you may be interested in this.
It would appear that if we look at the bigger picture, almost all of these are WRs, and hardly any RB/TE turn up. Indeed in the top-50, there are 6 more RBs (including Zeke and Gurley), and 2 TEs (Kittle and Kelce).
I grabbed some data from Pro Football Reference from 2016-2018. Surprisingly, Kamara (very explosive player) does not show up in the top 10, with only 2 such plays.
If I take the past three years, these are the guys that had more than 10 plays of over 40 yards in that period (note that JuJu did it in 2 years):
It would appear that if we look at the bigger picture, almost all of these are WRs, and hardly any RB/TE turn up. Indeed in the top-50, there are 6 more RBs (including Zeke and Gurley), and 2 TEs (Kittle and Kelce).
Given that most of the guys above are receivers, I think we also want to look at the Quarterbacks:
A number of these are gunslingers, a number are considered QBs that play it safe. It may be somewhat surprising to find Keenum, Cousins and Carr this high in this list though.
I should add here that Mahomes managed 15 such passes in 2018 (on par with Roethlisberger) and Trubisky had 10. Now there's a surprise.
I should add here that Mahomes managed 15 such passes in 2018 (on par with Roethlisberger) and Trubisky had 10. Now there's a surprise.
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