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Justin Herbert has knocked Jim Harbaugh down a peg, at least in terms of toughness.
The Los Angeles Chargers head coach, who played in the league for 14 seasons, used to believe he was the toughest quarterback in NFL history. After spending roughly half a season around Herbert, though, Harbaugh has a new answer.
“There’s nobody tougher,” Harbaugh said of Herbert on Monday’s “The Herd.”
“There’s my own personal ranking, and it’s my right to have my own personal ranking. So I’m going to preface this with that: It’s not anybody else’s, it’s mine,” Harbaugh explained. “But I’ve always considered myself the toughest quarterback in the history of the National Football League. Being around Justin Herbert, I have moved to No. 2 in the rankings. Justin Herbert is the toughest quarterback in the history of the National Football League.”
Herbert’s displayed toughness for much of his five-year NFL career. The Chargers quarterback has played through numerous ailments, such as a broken finger in 2023 and fractured rib cartilage in 2022. He also played while dealing with an ankle sprain earlier in the 2024 season.
Jim Harbaugh: Justin Herbert is the ‘toughest QB in the history of the NFL’
Harbaugh measured Herbert’s toughness in another way.
“It’s become, like, Hack-a-Shaq. Remember, remember the old Shaq days and they just hacked him? [Herbert is] so big and he’s so tough to get on the ground. The ball’s thrown and it could be the ball’s 10 yards downfield and there’s still somebody trying to wrestle and grapple him to the ground. He gets hit when he goes out of bounds. He gets hit in the head. He gets facemasked during the play. It’s incredible.”
For much of his career, Herbert has been among the best quarterbacks at avoiding sacks when pressured. His pressure-to-sack rate was below 16% in each of his first four seasons, per Pro Football Focus, which ranked near the top of the league’s starters. This year, his pressure-to-sack-rate has increased to 22.8%, which…
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Publish date : 2024-11-05 00:14:10
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