Justin Herbert was drafted by the Los Angeles Chargers first round, six-picked 2020 in that loaded quarterback class we saw a couple years ago.

In his time in the NFL so far, he's made it to the playoffs once.

It was that game we all probably remember last January against the Jacksonville Jaguars,

where the Chargers got out to a huge lead before doing what the

Chargers do and throwing it away for the Jags to come back and get the win after being down four

touchdowns. Justin Herbert's career this far has been really, really divisive. There's people

who carried the criticisms about him from college through the pro level, and then there's other

people that really kind of see what's going on and the limitations

around him.

Now, obviously the charges almost year after year have a ton of injury issues to deal with,

but they've also had an offensive coordinator that couldn't get out of his way.

If we go back and read the scouting report, just in end of 2019 early 2020 on justin herbert no matter

what report you pull up you see a lot of common phrases powerful arm can make all the throws can fire

fastballs into tight windows deadly as a pocket passer when given time willing to push downfield

can test deep safeties because of his arm strength,

throws a tremendous deep ball. All of these things represent the quarterback that he was

coming out of college and still is today. But what becomes very puzzling is when you look back

at the first three years of his career, you start to be a little bit confused

by the stats. For his career, his average yards per attempt, just 7.2. That ranks right around

league average within the NFL. But you see a decline, year one, 7.5, year 2, 7.5 last year, just 6.8. When we look at intended

air yards, which tells you how far downfield the quarterback wants to throw the football,

partly driven by scheme, but also partly driven by his decision-making. Justin Herbert ranked 25th in his first

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