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More than a third of the time Fields doesn't hand the ball off, the play ends with the ball in his hands. That's a little more than Lamar Jackson and 25% more than Jalen Hurts. Among quarterbacks with more than a season of being a starter, only Jackson, Fields and Tim Tebow are in that territory. That's the same Tebow who had to try baseball after Denver couldn't handle any more of his sub-50% completion percentage.
If you're going to go the Lamar Jackson route, you have to move the chains. Jackson completes more passes. And, maybe just as important, Jackson is sacked on 5.7% of those non-handoff plays and Fields is sacked on 10.2%.
He's amazingly good at making defenders miss, but, as we saw yesterday, he doesn't have a great sense of the rush. If you get to him quickly, you get him. Jackson knows how to handle the rush. All those extra backwards plays, a little less accuracy than Jackson. He's playing Jackson's game, but nowhere near as well.
I'm open to the possibility that the light could turn on, or maybe somehow we can keep blaming his teammates when the cap and the draft ensure they have some talent there - it's not like college. But I think Fields has failed and it's time to move on.
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