![]() His completion percentage has dropped from 65.9 percent (from 2008 to 2014) to 60.3 percent since the start of the 2015 season, and his yards per completion has gone from 12.5 to 10.9 over that same period. So what has caused Rodgers’s numbers to decline so steeply? The two biggest components of yards per dropback are completion percentage and yards per completion, and Rodgers has seen massive declines in both metrics. The chart below shows Rodgers’s average yards per dropback in each regular-season game since 2008, along with a trailing eight-game trendline: But as this table shows, Rodgers has suffered a precipitous decline since then. But what’s to blame for the decline - a change in scheme? Rodgers’s skills? The steady physical destruction of his most trusted receivers? That’s tough to untangle, but we can give it a try.īefore this stretch, Rodgers had been consistently excellent at gaining yards per dropback, ranking as one of the top three quarterbacks in that stat four times between 20. And Rodgers is in the middle of a cold spell prolonged enough to prompt his coach to chip in with a vote of confidence - never a great sign. Since November of last year, the Packers are just 5-7. Rodgers has averaged 5.79 yards per dropback since the start of 2015. Recently, things haven’t gone quite so well. That sort of dominant play earned Rodgers two MVP awards and helped the Packers win a Super Bowl. Rodgers’s rate was the second-best during that time period and just 0.01 yards per dropback behind Peyton Manning’s. That’s because touchdowns and interceptions are just about the only categories in which Rodgers still looks like, well, Aaron Rodgers.įrom 2008 to 2014, Rodgers averaged 7.34 yards per dropback, 1 according to ESPN’s Stats & Information Group. But to anyone who has watched the Packers of late, that’s obviously not the case, as Danny Kelly of The Ringer wrote this week. So if you look at only touchdowns and interceptions, Rodgers has looked a lot like, well, Aaron Rodgers. From 2008, Rodgers’s first year as a starter, to 2014, he averaged 39 touchdowns and 10 interceptions per 18 games. ![]() Even for Rodgers - who has been otherworldly when it comes to touchdowns and interceptions - that’s still very good. ![]() Since the start of the 2015 season, Rodgers has 34 touchdowns and just nine interceptions in 18 games. He’s been regarded as one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL for so long that only a sustained period of below-average play could make us ask, What’s wrong with Aaron Rodgers? Eleven months ago, Aaron Rodgers looked like the best player in football. ![]()
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