Chicago Bears: Justin Fields rookie season review: Touchdown Rate
With his rookie season complete we will see how Justin Fields compared to other rookie quarterbacks statistically. While fans will scream that Fields was not put into a good situation to succeed, there are plenty of other rookies who were drafted high, meaning they went to bad situations as well. With that in mind, it will be interesting to see how the Chicago Bears quarterback compares.
Since 1990 there have been 88 quarterbacks with over 200 pass attempts in their first year. When comparing them to Justin Fields, he is one of the lower rookies in touchdown rate, which is the number of pass attempts that turn into touchdowns.
At 2.6%, Justin Fields ranks 70th out of 88 rookies. The bad news is that the names below him are not very strong.
Trent Edwards
Ryan Tannehill
Rick Mirer
Craig Whelihan
Jared Goff
Kyle Orton
Nick Foles
Blake Bortles
Zach Wilson
DeShone Kizer
Mitchell Trubisky
Trevor Lawrence
Chris Weinke
David Carr
C.J. Beathard
Andrew Walter
Jimmy Clausen
Ryan Leaf
It is worth noting that Trevor Lawrence and Zach Wilson had worse touchdown rates in their rookie seasons than Justin Fields. That is great, but historically it just says that all three were in bad spots and did not will themselves out of them.
You can see that he is above Ryan Tannehill, who was the starting quarterback for a one-seed. He is also tied with Carson Wentz, two names that give the most upside when it comes to a rookie season with so few touchdowns.
When you look at some of the top names in this area you see Deshaun Watson, Russell Wilson, Marc Bulger, Ben Roethlisberger, and Baker Mayfield. all of them are above 5.6%, which is over double the touchdown rate for Fields.
Josh Allen was at 3.1%, Joe Burrow at 3.2%, and Matt Stafford at 3.4% None of them were in good spots as rookies, and all of them got injured, some to a worse degree than Justin Fields.
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This stat is not an end-all figure, and you can see names such as Jason Campbell, Nick Mullens, Mason Rudolph, and Mike Glennon all over 4% in their rookie season. However, all of the long-term starters are over 2.6%, and the names around him in this area have to be concerning to some degree.