Harmon Fun With Fantasy Quarterbacks

As we round to the home stretch and the bulk of draft season, I’m poring through the 2017 stats one more time. A lot has transpired in the sporting world since the Eagles won Super Bowl. Think of all the NBA player movement and innumerable controversies across the sporting landscape, just as a start.

So, in reconnecting the dots, I found a couple random stats for the elite signal callers that I thought I’d dole out here.

It’s time to reengage the Dome.

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Fun With QB Stats

Aaron Rodgers: Back w/ a new cast of characters. Loses trusty Jordy Nelson, but picks up RZ threat Jimmy Graham. Averaged 240 yards and 2.3 touchdown tosses per game before his injury.


Russell Wilson: Completion percentage dipped for the 2nd straight (career-low 61.3%). Still, tied career high w/ 34 TD passes (12 multi-TD passing games), including an eight-game streak that began in late October. Wilson also averaged 37 rushing yards per game.

Tom Brady: Brady produced nine multi-TD games in 2017 (five with three or more). He finished with seven games of at least 298 passing yards.

Cam Newton: Shut out of the end zone as a passer in six games. Threw for fewer than 200 yards nine times. Six rushing touchdowns and nine games with at least 50 rushing yards. Offensive line decimated in the preseason – both tackles injured.

Drew Brees: Had a nine-year streak of 30+ touchdown seasons snapped (23 marked his lowest total since 2003). His six-season streak of averaging at least 309 passing yards also fell by the wayside.

Deshaun Watson: Set the fantasy world on fire with 19 touchdowns in just seven games before sustaining a season-ending injury. Watson posted three games with at least 40 rushing yards (two 67-yard efforts). He passed for at least 225 yards in each of his final four starts, including a 402-yard effort in his final game.

Hopkins, Fuller and Miller lead the charge in ’18.

Carson Wentz: MVP favorite before his early-December injury. He logged five 300-yard games and 10 multi-touchdown efforts. Wentz also rushed for at least 22 yards in six games. 

Frank Reich is gone, and the offense has been anemic except for some of the Nate Sudfeld time. Foles has been atrocious. But what’s the reality? We just don’t know when Wentz will be ready.

Kirk Cousins: Jay Gruden doesn’t have Cousins to blame for anything in 2018. No, Cousins has departed for a loaded Minnesota team. Adam Thielen and Stefon Diggs hold down the outside with Kyle Rudeph working the seams. The return of Dalvin Cook is mighty intriguing.

Cousins posted three straight 4,000-yard seasons in Washington while averaging 27 touchdown passes per campaign. He’s also rushed for 13 touchdowns in the past three years.

Andrew Luck: Will he be ready? The Colts invested on the O-line in the draft, but will that be enough to keep Luck upright? And will he himself help the process by getting down and out of harm’s way?

He absorbed an inordinate number of hits before missing nearly 600 days of action. And, he’s already shown to be living dangerously on the move in the preseason. Luck’s receiver corps Is suspect beyond TY Hilton, though Jack Doyle was a nice surprise for Jacoby Brissett in 2017.

Luck passed for over 4,000 yards in two of his previous three seasons, producing 40 touchdowns in 2014 and 31 in 2016.