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In Context: The NFL requires a minimum of 1,500 Passing Attempts to be eligible for the passer rating stats.
Watson has 1,748 which puts him at #173 all-time in terms of pass attempts. Mahomes is 6 attempts ahead of him at #169. Both of them met the minimum threshold before the end of their third seasons as full time starters.
They have both thrown about 25% of the attempts as Rodgers and about 40% of the attempts as Wilson, the other two QB's on the list that have career ratings over 100, and about 17% of the career passing attempts as Brees and Brady.
Brees for his career was at 98.7 on 10,000+ attempts and had 10 seasons with a rating over 100.
Brady for his career is at 97.4 with 10,000+ attempts and had 8 seasons with a rating over 100.
Manning for his career was at 96.5 with 8300+ attempts and had 8 seasons with a rating over 100.
This is the definition of a meaningless statistic in terms of Watson being #2 all time. There is no way he deserves to be compared to these three after barely being above the minimum to qualify.
This is an example of looking at stats and interpreting them for what they mean.
Small sample size vs Large sample size.
To put it another way: if you had a new vaccine and only tested it on…Nevermind.
Kidding. Kidding. The last one was a joke.