kungfoodude

I would say both are significant concerns.

Huffing paint has some wild long term effects.

I would imagine he likely gets released after TC.

Well Tyler Warren didn't play so....

That's why I say it probably mainly has uses in terms of comparing player versus player in terms of career accomplishments. If X and Y players have 150 career starts, a larger percentage of GWD/4QC could indicate a player is more "clutch." As you say, that's really probably more of a detailed look once you have the basic data.

I don't think that would garner any useful information. It would probably only be useful in relation to another player and their career. I don't think a season block is useful in any way. GWD data is only useful for career length timespans, IMO.

I don't think there is any definitive criteria for "comeback wins." Game Winning Drives was something developed and has set criteria. I look at GWD as basically useful for giving some insight into the totality of a career and the accomplishments. If a player has a lot of GWD or 4QC(4th Quarter Comebacks) in comparison to similar peers, one could use it as the basis or starting point for a debate on how "clutch" a player might be. I don't think I would utilize it much more than something along those lines because it's very specific and not really indicative of overall quality of a player.

I think he just kind of is who he is. Middle of the road TE. Nothing wrong with that, just don't want to see an Ian Thomas contract.

I don't think that's unfair. It is still in the 4th quarter. It's not really supposed to be the sort of definitive stat that people are making it out to be. Just a general measure of a player leading their team to victory in that final quarter and how often that happened.

Correct.

No, it has to be a 4th quarter/OT score that "wins."

The criteria is: GWD -- Game-winning drives led by quarterback. Must be an offensive scoring drive in the 4th quarter or overtime that puts the winning team ahead for the last time.

Eh...there are some times when they will throw up some more interesting versions. GWD within X amount of minutes left or whatever. I think it's a fine stat but not worth reading into too much.

Elite speed matters less than elite route running. Ask Jerry Rice. But....elite speed always has to be accounted for.