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If there's one thing I've learned about the Internet, it's that people are unfailingly polite. Wait, that's not it. It's that they like lists. Pictures of animals, kids and Kardashians, sure ... but mostly, they like lists. Especially if they contain pictures and stolen content from somewhere else. Ha! Just kidding! Probably.
So, as we do every year, here are 10 lists ... of 10.
List 1: 10 additional facts I couldn't fit into "100 facts you need to know"
Shoutout to Kyle Soppe and the rest of the gang at ESPN Stats & Information for their help here.
1. Demaryius Thomas has 100 yards or a TD in 26 of his past 30 games (including playoffs). For the record, Antonio Brown is 20 of 30.
2. Tony Romo and Aaron Rodgers are the only two quarterbacks who averaged more yards per pass attempt and had a higher touchdown percentage than ... wait for it ... Ryan Fitzpatrick.
3. Last season, Jeremy Maclin's Philadelphia Eagles averaged 29.6 points per game. Maclin's new team, the Kansas City Chiefs, averaged 22.1 points per game in 2014. But in the four games last season that the Eagles did not get to 23 points, Maclin averaged seven catches on 12 targets for 14.5 standard fantasy points.
4. Among the categories Andrew Luck led the NFL in last year was dropped passes by his receivers and he had eight dropped passes by running backs. Andre Johnson's career drop percentage (3.9 percent) is more than 1 percent lower than the Colts' team average during Luck's career. And Frank Gore has a total of one drop in the past two seasons.
5. Brown was tackled on the 1-yard line four times last season, twice as many as any other receiver or tight end. As a team, the Steelers were tackled on the 1-yard line seven times, the most of any team in the NFL. If you regress that to the league average (three times a year), those extra four touchdown passes for Ben Roethlisberger would have made him the fourth-highest-scoring QB in fantasy.
6. Since LeGarrette Blount entered the league in 2010, the only running back to average more yards after contact per rush than Blount is ... Adrian Peterson.
7. Last season, the only tight ends with more 100-yard games than Delanie Walker? Rob Gronkowski and Greg Olsen.
9. Over the past three years, in the 21 games where he was targeted at least nine times, Julio Jones has 2,463 yards and 15 touchdowns. Putting those numbers on a 16-game pace would yield 1,877 yards and 12 touchdowns. Those numbers would have made Jones the No. 1 WR in fantasy last season and would have been 36 points better than Demaryius Thomas.
10. In 2014, Cam Newton completed just 43.4 percent of his passes thrown more than 10 yards downfield, and 48 percent of those completions went to Kelvin Benjamin.
View: http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:13524122
If there's one thing I've learned about the Internet, it's that people are unfailingly polite. Wait, that's not it. It's that they like lists. Pictures of animals, kids and Kardashians, sure ... but mostly, they like lists. Especially if they contain pictures and stolen content from somewhere else. Ha! Just kidding! Probably.
So, as we do every year, here are 10 lists ... of 10.
List 1: 10 additional facts I couldn't fit into "100 facts you need to know"
Shoutout to Kyle Soppe and the rest of the gang at ESPN Stats & Information for their help here.
1. Demaryius Thomas has 100 yards or a TD in 26 of his past 30 games (including playoffs). For the record, Antonio Brown is 20 of 30.
2. Tony Romo and Aaron Rodgers are the only two quarterbacks who averaged more yards per pass attempt and had a higher touchdown percentage than ... wait for it ... Ryan Fitzpatrick.
3. Last season, Jeremy Maclin's Philadelphia Eagles averaged 29.6 points per game. Maclin's new team, the Kansas City Chiefs, averaged 22.1 points per game in 2014. But in the four games last season that the Eagles did not get to 23 points, Maclin averaged seven catches on 12 targets for 14.5 standard fantasy points.
4. Among the categories Andrew Luck led the NFL in last year was dropped passes by his receivers and he had eight dropped passes by running backs. Andre Johnson's career drop percentage (3.9 percent) is more than 1 percent lower than the Colts' team average during Luck's career. And Frank Gore has a total of one drop in the past two seasons.
5. Brown was tackled on the 1-yard line four times last season, twice as many as any other receiver or tight end. As a team, the Steelers were tackled on the 1-yard line seven times, the most of any team in the NFL. If you regress that to the league average (three times a year), those extra four touchdown passes for Ben Roethlisberger would have made him the fourth-highest-scoring QB in fantasy.
6. Since LeGarrette Blount entered the league in 2010, the only running back to average more yards after contact per rush than Blount is ... Adrian Peterson.
7. Last season, the only tight ends with more 100-yard games than Delanie Walker? Rob Gronkowski and Greg Olsen.
8. Last season, there were only three players who had an aDOT (average depth of target, hat tip to Mike Clay) of more than 15.5 yards: Calvin Johnson, Maclin and ... Brian Quick. During the past two seasons, Nick Foles has thrown more deep touchdown passes (21 games played) than Rodgers and Peyton Manning combined last season (32 games).
9. Over the past three years, in the 21 games where he was targeted at least nine times, Julio Jones has 2,463 yards and 15 touchdowns. Putting those numbers on a 16-game pace would yield 1,877 yards and 12 touchdowns. Those numbers would have made Jones the No. 1 WR in fantasy last season and would have been 36 points better than Demaryius Thomas.
10. In 2014, Cam Newton completed just 43.4 percent of his passes thrown more than 10 yards downfield, and 48 percent of those completions went to Kelvin Benjamin.