Super Bowl LIII has finally arrived, and we’re here to bring you the final round of fantasy football facts to know for the 2017-2018 season.
Without further ado, here are 53 facts to know for Super Bowl 53.
New England Patriots
- Tom Brady was our fifth-highest-graded quarterback this year (90.7).
- Brady averages 322 passing yards per game in the Super Bowl (eight games). That’s a 16-game pace of 5,152 yards.
- Brady has averaged 345.5 yards per game so far in the 2018 playoffs.
- Brady has thrown for just one touchdown in five of his last seven games. He threw for three and four touchdowns in the other two games.
- Brady hasn’t been sacked so far in the playoffs. He has only been sacked five times in the last eight games.
- Throwing left or right, Brady completed 66.9% of his passes for 7.0 YPA with a 19:3 TD:INT ratio.
- Throwing over the middle, Brady was 74.5% accurate with a 9.2 YPA, but had a 12:10 TD:INT ratio.
- Sony Michel scored six touchdowns in the regular season in 13 games.
- Michel has five touchdowns in two postseason games.
- James White had 116 targets this year, second-most among all running backs.
- White had seven receiving touchdowns, most among running backs.
- White’s seven receiving touchdowns tied a PFF-era record (Jamaal Charles and Darren Sproles) for a running back.
- Rex Burkhead score more rushing touchdowns last week (2) than he did in the regular season (1).
- The Rams allowed running backs to average 4.9 YPC against this season, fourth-most in the NFL.
- Wide receivers caught 20 touchdowns against the Rams this year, tied for seventh-most in the NFL.
- Julian Edelman averaged 8.75 targets per game this year, 10th-most in the NFL.
- Over his last 12 playoff games (since 2013), Edelman averages 12.5 targets per game, eight receptions per game, and 99.6 yards per game.
- Edelman is the only wide receiver on the Patriots roster who had a 100-yard receiving game this year. (He did it twice; so did Josh Gordon.)
- Chris Hogan averaged over 15 yards per reception. No other Patriots receiver (other than Gordon) averaged more than 12 YPR.
- Hogan had five end-zone targets this year, most among all Patriots receivers.
- Among players with at least 25 targets, Cordarrelle Patterson’s 2.33 yards per route run ranked 11th among receivers this season.
- Hogan (1.07) and Phillip Dorsett (1.27) didn’t even rank in the top 80 in YPRR.
- Dorsett has scored a touchdown in three straight games. He had just two touchdowns from Weeks 1-16.
- Rob Gronkowski led the Patriots with six end-zone targets this year.
- Gronkowski has three or fewer receptions in eight of his last 10 games.
- Gronkowski’s 10 targets last week set a season-high, including several key third downs. His previous high was eight targets.
- Gronkowski averaged 14.5 yards per reception, second-best in the NFL among qualifying tight ends (George Kittle had 15.7).
Los Angeles Rams
- Jared Goff (87.2) was our eighth-best-graded quarterback this season.
- Goff averaged 8.4 YPA, fourth-most among quarterbacks with at least 40 dropbacks this year.
- Goff threw for 4,688 yards this season, fourth-most in the NFL.
- Goff’s 32 passing touchdowns were tied with Drew Brees and Philip Rivers for sixth-most in the NFL.
- The Patriots defense collected 18 interceptions, tied for third-most in the NFL.
- The Patriots defense also allowed 29 passing scores, tied for 10th-most in the NFL.
- Todd Gurley scored 21 touchdowns this year, most in the NFL.
- Gurley had 22 rushing attempts inside the 5 this year. No other player had more than 18.
- Gurley had 64 red-zone rushing attempts this year. No other player had more than 51.
- Gurley also had 20 red-zone targets, third-most on the Rams behind Brandin Cooks (26) and Robert Woods (27).
- Over the last two games, Gurley had been out-touched by C.J. Anderson 40 to 23.
- Anderson is averaging 117 yards per game over his last four contests, with four touchdowns in that span.
- Anderson is averaging 19.5 fantasy PPG over the last month. That 16-game pace would have ranked sixth among running backs this year.
- The Patriots allowed 4.75 YPC to running backs this year, eighth-most in the NFL.
- Cooks (13.2) doesn’t have the highest average depth of target among Rams receivers; Josh Reynolds (13.9) does.
- Four different Rams receivers scored at least five touchdowns this year: Cooks and Reynolds each had five, while Woods and Cooper Kupp scored six apiece.
- Cooks and Woods both topped 1,200 receiving yards this season. (Kupp was on pace for 1,110 yards.)
- Cooks, Woods, and Reynolds saw a combined 276 targets this year. They dropped just three passes combined.
- Cooks had five 100-yard games in the regular season, tied for seventh-most in the NFL.
- Goff had an passer rating of 115.9 when targeting Cooks and 104.4 when targeting Woods.
- More than a quarter of Reynolds’ targets (27%) came while he was standing in the end zone.
- No other Rams receiver had an end-zone target rate greater than 10%.
- Gerald Everett had four end-zone targets and two end-zone touchdowns this year.
- Tyler Higbee had three end-zone targets and one end-zone touchdown.
- Everett out-targeted Higbee 48-t0-29 during the regular season and caught 33 passes to Higbee’s 24.
- However, in two playoff games, Higbee leads Everett in both targets (7 to 4) and receptions (6 to 2).