The statistics and scouting service Pro Football Focus last season ranked him as the top cornerback in the league.
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But they never ended up sharing the backfield, according to Pro Football Focus, which analyzes each play in every game.
That number looks even odder considering that according to Pro Football Focus, no quarterback threw deep more often than Denver's Tebow.
His 34.5% accuracy rate when throwing deep, according to Pro Football Focus, ranks near the bottom of the league among starting quarterbacks.
It was while "messing around on Google" that Mr. Berger came across Pro Football Focus, and one statistic in particular struck him: player participation.
The 49ers sacked Manning six times, hit him seven more times and pressured him 13 times, according to numbers compiled by Pro Football Focus.
The unit's efficiency ranked ninth, first and second in the NFL, respectively in 2008, 2009 and 2010, according to analysis site Pro Football Focus.
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Doubtful about the accuracy of Mr. Hornsby's data, Mr. Berger checked it against the NFL data set and found Pro Football Focus was nearly perfect.
As of Week 14 last season, Pro Football Focus had him ranked as the fourth-worst offensive tackle in the league, with nine sacks allowed.
Of the 12 teams that qualified for the NFL playoffs, eight have a player in the top 11 in "missed tackles" according to Pro Football Focus.
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In 2011, his most recent full season, Revis surrendered just 35 completions on the 85 passes that opposing quarterbacks attempted against him, according to Pro Football Focus.
Pro Football Focus, a statistical service that grades every NFL player on every play, rates Gaither as one of the top pass blockers in the NFL over the past three weeks.
According to the website Pro Football Focus, Moore has one sack, three hits and five hurries on 29 blitzes this season, making him the second-most productive pass rusher among all safeties.
When Warner worked with Haley in 2008, the quarterback was tied for last in the league with just 46 attempts that traveled 20 yards or more in the air, according to Pro Football Focus.
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It's not just an emotional fit, either: In 2010, the last season Manning played, he led the NFL in passes thrown longer than 20 yards, according to Pro Football Focus, throwing deep 92 times.
Kyle Wilson is penciled in there for the moment, but according to the scouting service Pro Football Focus, Wilson was just the 73rd-best cornerback among the 113 who played at least 25% of their teams' snaps last season.
Within the eSports realm, will you focus on the IGN Pro League or also the other leagues out there?
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Benjamin's pro-death penalty position and focus on increasing resources for law enforcement make him attractive to more conservative voters, observers say.
Yet, despite the high number of volunteer hours, the company is striving for an even greater number of participants in these programs, allowing it to further fine-tune best practices in employee volunteer programs, with a current focus on skills-based pro bono work.
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Partnership, pro-activity and prevention will be the focus of Wiltshire's police and crime plan, the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) has announced.
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Companies need to stop using a dizzying array of earnings measures, from pro forma and cash to EBIDTA, and focus on a uniform standard that doesn't give a misleading picture of the balance sheet.
The proper response would have been a focus on long-term spending control and pro-growth policies, not a panic-based, growth-discouraging tax hike.
During his first high school semester the coach of the basketball team sits him down and tells him that in order to be a pro one day, he is going to need to focus on one sport and give it his all.
Part of what allows pro athletes to succeed at their level is an almost superhuman ability to focus on the present.
We need to focus on simplifying the tax code and fashioning it to be more pro-economic growth.
While he intends to focus on economics and math, he also has aspirations of joining the pro tennis tour.
Putin has tried to switch the focus to the Popular Front, which will likely be used as the main pro-government vehicle in the run-up to the March 4 presidential election.
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We ought to focus on the things that matter, and on those issues Ivanishvili has remained just as robustly pro-Western as you would expect a Georgian politician to be.
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