Should the Vikings be afraid of Will Levis's bad stats?
Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast
Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast
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🗓️ 31 March 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Inside or Massey collarard here along with He Turn Haley English, who is now |
| 0:26.0 | hately English after she ran Will Levis's statistics for an article today and I want to start there with you Haley that you did a |
| 0:36.9 | comparison between Will Levis and Hendon Hooker statistically and I think |
| 0:40.9 | people have a sense for how this turned out, but there was a lot of interesting things that you ran across. |
| 0:47.0 | Are you completely out after seeing the horrors of Will Levis's statistics. |
| 0:53.2 | I have to say, I thought it would be better than it was, |
| 0:57.2 | but it turned out to be pretty gnarly. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah, like back when people were saying |
| 1:01.6 | he was a quarterback prospect |
| 1:03.2 | through the college season last year, I was like, all right, let me like walk |
| 1:06.2 | something on this guy, maybe look at his, like just general box score stats, |
| 1:10.9 | and they were like all kind of horrible. And was like why is he regarded as this like first round top quarterback kind of talent type of thing? |
| 1:18.6 | Yeah, but when you look at his stats he's basically below average and just about everything. |
| 1:23.8 | I think he was 187th graded quarterback |
| 1:27.1 | by PFF in college last season. |
| 1:29.4 | Nowhere near CJ Strad, Bryce Young, |
| 1:32.0 | even Hendon Hooker, which we'll talk about. |
| 1:33.6 | But yeah, just underwhelming stats all across the board. |
| 1:36.9 | And so, you know, looking at historically, you ran all the numbers for recent first and second round |
| 1:43.1 | quarterbacks by the PFF grade, |
| 1:45.5 | and Will Levis was even lower than Josh Allen |
| 1:48.6 | throwing the ball, which Josh Allen is |
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