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Brady was recently named the winner of Pro Football Focus’ Best Player, Offensive Player of the Year, and Best Passer awards for the 2016 NFL season.
Here is what PFF observed in making their decision:
Tom Brady was NFL's best player this season | PFF
Here is what PFF observed in making their decision:
Tom Brady was NFL's best player this season | PFF
He ended the regular season with a 99.3 PFF, which is the highest single-season PFF grade ever given to a QB over the past decade. For perspective, this is a 0-100 scale.
Pro Football Focus analysts have never seen a QB play with the efficiency and effectiveness that Tom Brady has displayed this season. His 99.3 PFF grade in the 2016 regular season tops the previous best season we have seen from a QB, which was Aaron Rodgers’ obscene 2011 campaign (98.4). In fact, only three previous players have surpasses the 95.0 barrier in the PFF era (since the 2006 season).
Brady threw two interceptions all season and finished the season with an interception rate of 0.5 percent. That is the third-best figure of all time, and the two players tied at 0.4 percent above him (Damon Huard in 2006 and Josh McCown in 2013) threw four fewer touchdowns combined than Brady did this year, despite his four-game suspension.
At the other end of the scale, Brady led the league in big-time throw percentage, at 6.7—a full percent higher than any other QB, and more than double the figure of the bottom half of the league. He was able to make big plays without endangering the football in a way we have never seen before.
Brady ended the season completing 67.4 percent of his passes, but when you adjust for drops, spikes, passes thrown away, etc. his adjusted completion percentage jumps to 79.5 percent, which is just narrowly behind Sam Bradford’s league-leading figure of 80.9 percent. Bradford, though, recorded the league’s lowest average depth of target figure to produce that historic accuracy, while Brady was putting the ball on average almost two full yards further downfield from the line of scrimmage.
Pro Football Focus analysts have never seen a QB play with the efficiency and effectiveness that Tom Brady has displayed this season. His 99.3 PFF grade in the 2016 regular season tops the previous best season we have seen from a QB, which was Aaron Rodgers’ obscene 2011 campaign (98.4). In fact, only three previous players have surpasses the 95.0 barrier in the PFF era (since the 2006 season).
Brady threw two interceptions all season and finished the season with an interception rate of 0.5 percent. That is the third-best figure of all time, and the two players tied at 0.4 percent above him (Damon Huard in 2006 and Josh McCown in 2013) threw four fewer touchdowns combined than Brady did this year, despite his four-game suspension.
At the other end of the scale, Brady led the league in big-time throw percentage, at 6.7—a full percent higher than any other QB, and more than double the figure of the bottom half of the league. He was able to make big plays without endangering the football in a way we have never seen before.
Brady ended the season completing 67.4 percent of his passes, but when you adjust for drops, spikes, passes thrown away, etc. his adjusted completion percentage jumps to 79.5 percent, which is just narrowly behind Sam Bradford’s league-leading figure of 80.9 percent. Bradford, though, recorded the league’s lowest average depth of target figure to produce that historic accuracy, while Brady was putting the ball on average almost two full yards further downfield from the line of scrimmage.
