Eagles’ star Carson Wentz land at No. 8 in a ranking of the most ‘trustworthy’ quarterbacks in the playoffs
The Philadelphia Eagles enter the 2020 NFL playoffs riding the hot hand of Carson Wentz along with a four-game winning streak. The Birds are slight underdogs to the Seahawks, but with Wentz’s play of late, the Eagles should have every opportunity to win the game.
NFL.com’s Ali Bhanpuri, Tom Blair, Gennaro Filice, and Dan Parr recently ranked the 12 signal-callers slated to play in the playoffs.
Using analytics, 2019 production and playoff experience, they ranked the quarterbacks form 1-12 based on trustworthiness.
The Eagles star landed in the top-10 and if not for this being his first playoff start, Wentz would have probably landed higher.
Blair: Now we come to the first of the true playoff naifs. To some extent, we’re still trying to figure out what kind of quarterback Carson Wentz will be, coming off his fourth NFL season, in which he looked both brilliant (299.8 yards per game, 7:0 TD-to-INT ratio and a passer rating of 100.8 in the four-game win streak that propelled the Eagles to the playoffs) and pedestrian (260 yards per game, 5:3 TD-to-INT ratio and a passer rating of 81.6 in the three-game skid that dropped them to 5-7). How he handles his first playoff appearance will go a long way toward filling in the blanks on his resume created by the injuries that kept him from participating in Philly’s last two postseason pushes. Here’s a fact that will soon seem either slightly useless or spookily prescient: Wentz became the fourth QB since 1970 to throw for 1,500-plus yards and 10-plus TDs while notching a win percentage of .800 in December — and two of the three (Kurt Warner in 2001 and Peyton Manning in 2013) went on to reach the Super Bowl. After a very up-and-down season, we’re back where we started the season with Wentz: waiting to see what he can do in the playoffs.
Wentz just became the Eagles single-season leader in passing yards and was the only quarterback this season and the first in team history to throw a touchdown pass in all 16 regular-season games.
Wentz has a touchdown streak of 20 games, going back to last season and it’s the longest current active streak in football.
On the season, Wentz had a completion percentage of 63.9, to go along with 4,039 passing yards, 27 passing touchdowns to just 7 interceptions.
