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Nick Foles retires: 10 stats that are hard to believe originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
Nick Foles was a .500 career quarterback who never threw 350 passes in a season, played for six different teams, won 10 regular-season games in his last seven NFL seasons and threw as many touchdowns in one game in 2013 as he threw in eight entire seasons.
The numbers make no sense. Foles definitely had one of the strangest careers in NFL history.
He played only 38 games in an Eagles uniform, but he’s a folk hero around here. A legend.
With Foles announcing Thursday that he’ll be retiring as an Eagle at the home opener against the Falcons next month, we figured we’d put together 10 of our favorite Foles stats.
Like his entire career, they’re simply impossible to believe.
1. Before his historic 2013 season and his miracle 2017 postseason, Foles started six games late in 2012, his rookie year and Andy Reid’s final season as Eagles head coach. Foles went 1-5 for a horrible team, but he completed 61 percent of his passes and threw for 243 yards per game. That made him the first quarterback in NFL history to complete 61 percent of his passes and throw for over 240 yards per game as a rookie (minimum 250 attempts).
2. In 2013, four years before the Super Bowl, Foles made his only Pro Bowl with a historic regular season despite starting only 10 games after Michael Vick got hurt. He led the NFL that year in passer rating, yards per completion, yards per attempt, highest touchdown percentage and lowest interception percentage.
His 119.2 passer rating from 2013 is 4th-highest in NFL history (behind Aaron Rodgers in 2011 and 2020 and Peyton Manning in 2004), his 9.1 yards per attempt is 12th-highest in history, his 14.2 yards per completion is 6th-highest in the last 30 years, his touchdown percentage — one TD every 11.7 attempts — is 12th-highest in NFL history and his interception percentage – one every 159 attempts – is 3rd-best in NFL history.
His 27 touchdowns are…
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Publish date : 2024-08-08 19:37:14
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