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Here are 10 LPGA stat leaders from 2023, including Nelly Korda and a rookie who bombs it

Here are the LPGA stat leaders for 2023.

Several years ago, KPMG officials asked former LPGA commissioner Mike Whan a simple question: What’s the LPGA’s No. 1 pain point?

Answer: The lack of statistics and analytics.

KPMG stepped up to the challenge, launching the KPMG Performance Insights technology in 2021, which introduced strokes gained metrics to the LPGA for the first time. The data, collected by caddies, was first made available to the public earlier this year with the launch of a new website.

It’s not ShotLink, but it’s a step in the right direction as the LPGA tries to narrow the great data divide between the men’s and women’s game. Last July, the U.S. Women’s Open at Pebble Beach became the the first women’s professional tournament to provide ShotLink data, meaning fans could track every shot from every player in the field.

What would it take to get ShotLink every week? A whole lot of money.

In the meantime, here’s a look at 10 stats leaders from the 2023 season:

B/R predicts pair of Chargers to finish top-two in key stat categories

The Los Angeles Chargers have a few players who are equipped to finish among the best of the best.

Bleacher Report’s Maurice Moton predicted NFL stat leaders for the 2021 regular season, and the Chargers were represented by two players, one on each side of the ball.

Offensively, Moton believes that running back Austin Ekeler will be runner-up to Saints RB Alvin Kamara in yards from scrimmage, finishing with 1,980 total yards.

Ekeler’s career-high in yards from scrimmage currently sits at 1,550, which came back in 2018.

Now heading into his fifth season in this league, Ekeler is in a great position to shatter his personal best and come close, if not, accomplish Moton’s prediction.

With new offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi calling the shots, he has historically gotten his running backs involved more than any other coach in the league.

Kamara, who Lombardi heavily utilized when he was with the Saints, recorded at least 1,500 yards from scrimmage and 13 touchdowns three times in his first four seasons.

Ekeler has a very similar skill set to Kamara, considering the two are ultra-refined runners and deadly pass-catchers, both out of the backfield and in the slot. Therefore, he could be in for a monstrous year.

On the other side of the side, Moton is predicting edge defender Joey Bosa to finish second in sacks to Browns’ Myles Garrett, seeing him amass 16 in 2021.

Last season, the Rams led the league in sacks with 53 under Brandon Staley while the Chargers had nearly half of that. The most sacks that Bosa had in a single season was back in 2017 when he posted 12.5.

When you combine his high pass-rush win rate with Staley’s philosophy of putting his players in position to win, Bosa could post a career-high and possibly top the current franchise record of 17 sacks.

Terry McLaurin leads all WRs in yards after catch; trails only Alvin Kamara in NFL

When it comes to making plays with the ball in his hands, no WR in the NFL is better than Terry McLaurin at this moment.

Any fan of the Washington Football Team knows how special WR Terry McLaurin is, and it seems that the NFL as a whole is starting to get the picture as well.

Through the quarter-mark of the 2020 NFL season, McLaurin now leads all receivers when it comes to yards after the catch, and he ranks second in the entire league, trailing only RB Alvin Kamara from the New Orleans Saints.

With 208 yards after the catch, McLaurin now has 387 total receiving yards this season, which ranks fifth in the NFL. It’s also important to note that among the top-five receivers in that category, he is the only player without a Pro-Bowl level quarterback throwing him the ball. If Dwayne Haskins can continue to progress and settle into his role as a franchise QB, it will be absolutely incredible to see what McLaurin can do.

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