Joe Burrow is the NFL’s most aggressive QB and yet its most accurate. How can this be?

Joe Burrow is #1 in completion percentage and is also the most aggressive passer. In 2020, MVP Aaron Rodgers was #1 in completion percentage and the 2nd LEAST aggressive passer. In the history of the NFL has any QB equaled or come close to this?

Joe Burrow is the NFL’s most aggressive QB and yet its most accurate. How can this be?

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Burrow is the league leader among qualified passers with a 70.4 completion percentage (which will be his season percentage since he’s sitting the regular-season finale). Yet, according to NFL’s Next Gen stats, he’s also the most aggressive quarterback in the league.

“Aggressiveness” rate tracks the number of passing attempts a quarterback makes that are into tight coverage, where there is a defender within 1 yard of the receiver at the time of completion or incompletion.

Burrow leads the league with 19.2 percent of his passes being thrown into small windows. For the sake of comparison, the following quarterbacks trail Burrow (in order): Tua Tagovailoa, Ben Roethlisberger, Jacoby Brissett, Taylor Heinicke, Daniel Jones, Tyler Huntley, Tyrod Taylor, Justin Fields and Carson Wentz.

Only two of those other quarterbacks possess a passer rating above 90.0. Meanwhile, Burrow ranks second in the NFL in passer rating (108.3), behind only Aaron Rodgers (111.1).

Rodgers, the 2020 NFL MVP, led the league in completion percentage last season with a 70.7 rate. Yet he was also the second least aggressive passer, with only 11.2 percent of his throws being into tight windows.