Yahoo Sports NFL on Caleb Williams
From the article
Imagine, for a moment, that you (the person reading this) are driving a perfectly lovely 2014 Honda Accord LX. Now, imagine that next to you is Michael Schumacher magically restored to his athletic peak in a custom-built Ferrari... Caleb Williams has a Ferrari, and they still insist on evaluating the throws he makes by the scale applied to other arms.
STACKED’s take
Elite performance graded average by PFF due to flawed methodology that ignores his exceptional arm talent.
Caleb Williams delivered an elite performance that Pro Football Focus graded as average, illustrating a fundamental flaw in PFF's quarterback evaluation methodology. The source argues that Williams possesses exceptional arm talent (compared to a Ferrari versus a Honda Accord) that enables him to make throws and access decisions unavailable to most professional athletes, yet PFF evaluates his decisions by the same scale applied to other quarterbacks. The source contends that PFF's per-play grading system fails to account for how Williams' aggressive play can force defensive reactions and influence tendencies across 60 minutes, and that PFF's evaluators lack the film-study depth and quarterback expertise of Ben Johnson to properly contextualize Williams' decision-making.
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