On 2 former Rams qbs (Bradford, Keenum)

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PFF takes an in-depth look at the 2016 season’s top quarterbacks based upon PFF’s exclusive signature stats

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PFF’s Signature Stats are unique metrics tailored to each position group that go far beyond the traditional box score statistics. In the case of the quarterback position, signature stats determine things like which quarterback was the best throwing the deep ball, who performed at a high level when under pressure, and a number of other situational statistics you can’t find anywhere else.

With that data at our disposal, we take a look back at the 2016 season and highlight which quarterback excelled in each area, according to PFF’s Signature Stats.

Adjusted Completion Percentage

A quarterback’s completion percentage rarely tells the whole story, and that’s why PFF has developed a method that gives a true representation of how accurate a QB’s passes are.

The PFF Adjusted Completion Percentage accounts for dropped passes, throw aways, spiked balls, batted passes and passes where the quarterback was hit while they threw the ball – factors that hurt the quarterback’s completion percentage but don’t help show how truly accurate they are.

With that in mind, who was the NFL’s most accurate passer last season? That title belongs to Minnesota’s Sam Bradford at an 80.9 percent adjusted completion rate. Bradford was the only quarterback in the league to break the 80 percent threshold, narrowly edging out the likes of Drew Brees (79.8), Tom Brady (78.5) and Matt Ryan (78.4).

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Matt Waldman examines 10 players he’s monitoring during training camp and expects good things.

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1. SAM BRADFORD

Bradford was an excellent quarterback prospect at Oklahoma who landed with Jeff Fisher’s turnstile of less imaginative offenses (whether that was Fisher’s influence or the coaches) and underwhelming offensive line. Thanks to injuries to himself and teammates and turnover of personnel, Bradford has been unable to develop a rapport with any of his offenses in three different stops. It’s only one of several reasons why his 2016 performance is quietly impressive.

Bradford arrived in Minnesota in September well after the team had spent months working with Teddy Bridgewater and Shaun Hill in Norv Turner’s offense. Mike Zimmer asked Turner to adjust his offense to what Bradford does well, but those are significant adjustments to make during the first month of the season and Turner was not adaptable.

This is a common mindset for old-school coordinators and coaches who believe they’ve earned jobs on the basis of their schemes more so than their leadership. They also let that perception get ingrained by not displaying the skills to excel beyond what they know and bounce from team to team as recycled coaching material.

Turner knows football and he’d be a fantastic offensive mind to learn about football. However, the track record shows that Turner is not adaptable with his scheme or as a leader. He reportedly did not like to adjust his scheme to players in order to maximize what the player could do. Instead, he preferred players rise to the scheme.

While I get where Turner is coming from, it doesn’t help a team improve fast enough if not everyone is bought into what Turner is selling. Zimmer and Turner could not agree on the changes that needed to be made and Turner quit before it became a huge media issue. I can respect Turner’s decision because many coaches would have behaved in a dysfunctional manner that could have hurt the team even more.

Even so, it meant Bradford and the Vikings were dealing with a new offensive coach, adjustments to the scheme, an injured offensive line that was serviceable at best when healthy, its franchise runner suffered a knee injury, and its best receiver (Diggs) suffered a groin injury at the end of the month.

Despite all of these issues, Bradford completed 71 percent of his passes and posted a 20-to-5 TD-to-INT performance in 15 games. Bradford did this with an off-brand, injured version of Odell Beckham, Jr. and Eli Manning was statistically worse with the real deal.

I was impressed with Bradford’s poise in the pocket. He made some difficult throws under pressure and did so with anticipation and touch. If Bradford’s surrounding talent stays healthy this month, I have to consider bumping him up my rankings and even incorporate him as a late-round QB2 in leagues where I embrace a greater amount of risk.

I’m not expecting Bradford to shock fantasy football with a top-10 QB performance this year, but I think a top-15 performance is far more reasonable than his ADP suggests.

Now I just need Josh Gordon to figure things out so I might enjoy some of my dynasty leagues a little more.

Monday night Keenum was 17 of 21 (81%) with one TD and a qb rating of 110.3. He has an overall qb rating of 97.6 on 3 starts with 4 TDs and 0 Ints.

What’s the difference between Keenum 2016 and Keenum 2017?

Simple. A running game.

Keenum’s 2 wins with the Vikes, they got 125 or more yards rushing. The one loss, it was under 90.