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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Should the Vikings be afraid of Will Levis's bad stats?

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Matthew Coller

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.8907 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller and intern Haley English talk about her extensive look at Will Levis and Hendon Hooker through a purely statistical perspective. She talks about the red flags and the ways in which Levis would need to be an outlier to succeed and how Hooker's stats are both good and not quite as excellent as other recent success stories. Plus they discuss the Vikings' 8.5 over-under win total and new rules in the NFL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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