Player / QB
Sam Ehlinger
Regular season production, 2021 through 2022.
- Position
- QB
- Team
- IND
- Seasons
- 2021-2022
- Games
- 7
- 2022 Altitude
- 30Turbulence
2022 Flight Log
Altitude is EPA per dropback with the luck taken out: interception plays priced as incompletions, sack-fumbles as clean sacks, shown as the historical percentile of every qualifying QB game since 2016. The band is the claim; differences between adjacent bands are often noise.
W8
54
Level
W9
0
Grounded
W17
31
Turbulence
W18
34
Turbulence
Season mean Altitude 30 across 4 qualifying games. Rushing identity is not graded here; his baseline is 13 rushing yards a game.
Tracking profile
Time to throw and aggressiveness are style axes that sit beside the Altitude score, never replace it; CPOE is the tracking-model completion skill.
Time to throw
Headline3.03s
QB median 2.80s
Track spans the middle 90% of 67 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
Aggressiveness
14%
QB median 15%
Track spans the middle 90% of 67 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
Air yards to sticks
-0.8 yd
QB median -0.9 yd
Track spans the middle 90% of 67 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
CPOE
-4.2
QB median -1.6
Track spans the middle 90% of 67 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
League tracking aggregates; NFL-qualified weeks only.
Charting profile
Accuracy and pressure rates persist year over year (.43 to .48) but add nothing to predicting future clean EPA, so none of them enters the Altitude score; read them as style and environment.
Bad throw rate
Headline18.0%
QB median 17.0%
Track spans the middle 90% of 58 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
On-target rate
74.0%
QB median 74.7%
Track spans the middle 90% of 58 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
Pressure rate
23.0%
QB median 20.1%
Track spans the middle 90% of 58 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
Pocket time
2.50s
QB median 2.50s
Track spans the middle 90% of 58 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
ESPN QBR, 2022 average
37.4across 3 games
ESPN QBR shown as a benchmark. On identical frames, the Altitude score is steadier game to game (.517 vs .470 split-half).
PFR advanced charting, 2018 onward; qualified seasons only.
2022 / QB
Position profile
Season splits from pre-aggregated charting views. Missing datasets stay hidden.
2022 percentiles
Against every qualifying QB season in 2022. Metrics below their sample minimum say so instead of pretending.
EPA per dropback
Below the 200 dropbacks minimum in 2022.
CPOE
Below the 150 attempts minimum in 2022.
Yards per attempt
Below the 150 attempts minimum in 2022.
Career, season by season
Regular season only. Column definitions live in the glossary and at /explore.
| Season | Team | G | Att | Cmp | Pass yds | TD | INT | EPA per dropback | CPOE | Y/A |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | IND | 4 | 101 | 64 | 573 | 3 | 3 | -0.35 | -3.47 | 5.67 |
| 2021 | IND | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2022 situational splits
Dropback production by situation bucket. Small buckets are noisy; check anything surprising with a test in the builder.
| Situation | Dropbacks | EPA per dropback | Success rate | CPOE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shotgun | 103 | -0.42 | 0.32 | -3.78 |
| Trailing | 97 | -0.31 | 0.34 | -3.19 |
| Home | 62 | -0.19 | 0.40 | 3.32 |
| Away | 53 | -0.54 | 0.26 | -12.68 |
| 1st down & long | 38 | -0.10 | 0.45 | -1.34 |
| 2nd down & long | 24 | -0.27 | 0.33 | -2.72 |
| Two minute | 23 | -0.04 | 0.26 | -3.91 |
| Red zone | 17 | -0.68 | 0.29 | -5.99 |
| 3rd down & long | 14 | -1.30 | 0.14 | -9.95 |
| Neutral | 14 | -0.77 | 0.29 | -9.74 |
| 3rd down & medium | 11 | -0.47 | 0.27 | -3.41 |
| 2nd down & medium | 10 | -0.12 | 0.30 | -4.55 |
| 3rd down & short | 9 | -0.76 | 0.22 | -5.42 |
| No huddle | 7 | -0.16 | 0.14 | -1.62 |
| 2nd down & short | 4 | -0.01 | 0.50 | -4.81 |
| Leading | 4 | 0.05 | 0.50 | 6.25 |
| 4th down & short | 3 | -0.22 | 0.33 | -15.43 |
| 1st down & medium | 1 | -0.35 | 0.00 | |
| 4th down & medium | 1 | 2.45 | 1.00 | 34.64 |
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