Russell Wilson Is Not an MVP Candidate—He’s Something Much Better

December 3, 2015   ·   Mike Tanier   ·   Jump to comments

If you look up the all-time passer rating leaders, you are in for a surprise.
Aaron Rodgers is the all-time passer rating leader, with a 105.1 rating. No surprise there. He's been on top of that list for several seasons. 
Here's the surprise, what you wouldn't have seen if you looked at the list last season or even a few weeks ago: Russell Wilson is second at 99.5—ahead of Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Joe Montana, Steve Young, Drew Brees, Kurt Warner and every other current superstar and Hall of Famer you can name. Wilson also now appears near the top of the all-time yards-per-attempt (fifth), interception-rate (third lowest) and completion-percentage (eighth) lists.
Wilson did two things in the last three weeks to leap onto the all-time lists. First, he threw 91 passes to inch past the minimum qualification of 1,500 career attempts for those leaderboards. And second, he made those 91 attempts count. Nine touchdowns (10 percent of Wilson's career total!) ca...

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