The average starting QB took 2.81 seconds to throw the ball last season according to NFL Next Gen Stats. That was the exact value obtained by both Patrick Mahomes and Kyler Murray. Bo Nix took 2.91 seconds on average to throw the ball last season. The QB who got the ball out the fastest last season was Tua Tagovailoa at 2.42 seconds. Lamar Jackson took the longest to throw the ball at 3.14 seconds but Jalen Hurts was pretty close at 3.13.

SISdatahub.com has what they call “pocket time” which is the average time in the pocket before a QB gets pressure. So the QBs with the biggest difference between the two numbers is the one that does the best at moving in the pocket to create time. Notice that Lamar Jackson got pressure at 2.50 seconds on average, but didn’t throw until 3.14 seconds so on

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