Yesterday, I looked at the leaders in Gray Ink in Receiving Yards per adjusted Team Pass Attempt. There was a pretty notable name absent from that list: Larry Fitzgerald, who currently ranks 3rd on the all-time receiving yards list. So what gives? The graph below shows Fitzgerald’s relevant statistics from every season of his career.
For example, in 2004, playing for Arizona, he had 780 receiving yards and his team had 533 Team Pass Attempts (excluding sacks). The Cardinals ranked 13th Team Pass Attempts that season. Fitzgerald averaged 1.46 Receiving Yards/Team Pass Attempt, and 1.46 Receiving Yards/adjusted Team Pass Attempt (meaning he played a full season). He ranked 46th in RY/TPA and 55th in RY/aTPA. He also ranked 42nd in raw receiving yards.
