The statistics and scouting service Pro Football Focus last season ranked him as the top cornerback in the league.
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But they never ended up sharing the backfield, according to Pro Football Focus, which analyzes each play in every game.
That number looks even odder considering that according to Pro Football Focus, no quarterback threw deep more often than Denver's Tebow.
His 34.5% accuracy rate when throwing deep, according to Pro Football Focus, ranks near the bottom of the league among starting quarterbacks.
It was while "messing around on Google" that Mr. Berger came across Pro Football Focus, and one statistic in particular struck him: player participation.
The 49ers sacked Manning six times, hit him seven more times and pressured him 13 times, according to numbers compiled by Pro Football Focus.
The unit's efficiency ranked ninth, first and second in the NFL, respectively in 2008, 2009 and 2010, according to analysis site Pro Football Focus.
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Doubtful about the accuracy of Mr. Hornsby's data, Mr. Berger checked it against the NFL data set and found Pro Football Focus was nearly perfect.
As of Week 14 last season, Pro Football Focus had him ranked as the fourth-worst offensive tackle in the league, with nine sacks allowed.
Of the 12 teams that qualified for the NFL playoffs, eight have a player in the top 11 in "missed tackles" according to Pro Football Focus.
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In 2011, his most recent full season, Revis surrendered just 35 completions on the 85 passes that opposing quarterbacks attempted against him, according to Pro Football Focus.
Pro Football Focus, a statistical service that grades every NFL player on every play, rates Gaither as one of the top pass blockers in the NFL over the past three weeks.
According to the website Pro Football Focus, Moore has one sack, three hits and five hurries on 29 blitzes this season, making him the second-most productive pass rusher among all safeties.
When Warner worked with Haley in 2008, the quarterback was tied for last in the league with just 46 attempts that traveled 20 yards or more in the air, according to Pro Football Focus.
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It's not just an emotional fit, either: In 2010, the last season Manning played, he led the NFL in passes thrown longer than 20 yards, according to Pro Football Focus, throwing deep 92 times.
Kyle Wilson is penciled in there for the moment, but according to the scouting service Pro Football Focus, Wilson was just the 73rd-best cornerback among the 113 who played at least 25% of their teams' snaps last season.
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