Quick note to start with since the title is a tad misleading. Only tabulating numbers from the non-joint practices. Take out the session that was rained out and we’re really looking at 11 total practices, two new ones since our last look.
We’ll break things down the same way as we have before with some quick final numbers at the end.
First, numbers from the last two practices.
Quarterbacks:
Landry Jones: 37/45 3 TDs 1 INT
Dustin Vaughan: 20/34 0 TDs 1 INT
Ben Roethlisberger: 20/27 3 TDs 0 INTs
Running Back Carries:
Le’Veon Bell: 9
Christian Powell: 9
Brandon Brown-Dukes: 7
Daryl Richardson: 6
DeAngelo Williams: 6
Fitzgerald Toussaint: 4
Cameron Stingily: 3
Dustin Vaughan: 1
Wide Receivers Catches-Targets-Touchdowns:
Antonio Brown: 8-12-2
Cobi Hamilton: 7-12-0
Sammie Coates: 7-10-0
Eli Rogers: 8-9-0
Issac Blakeney: 3-6-0
Xavier Grimble: 4-6-1
Le’Veon Bell: 5-5-1
Darrius Heyward-Bey: 4-5-0
Paul Lang: 4-5-0
Marcus Tucker: 3-5-0
Demarcus Ayers: 4-4-0
Jesse James: 3-4-1
Michael Cooper: 4-4-0
David Johnson: 4-4-1
Brandon Brown-Dukes: 2-3-0
Levi Norwood: 1-3-0
Fitzgerald Toussaint: 2-2-0
Roosevelt Nix: 1-1-0
Daryl Richardson: 1-1-0
Cameron Stingily: 1-1-0
Drops:
Issac Blakeney: 1
Darrius Heyward-Bey: 1
Paul Lang: 1
Levi Norwood: 1
Interceptions:
Jacob Hagen: 1
Donald Washington: 1
And the comprehensive training camp numbers.
Quarterbacks:
Landry Jones: 96/140 (68.6%) 17 TDs 3 INTs
Dustin Vaughan: 78/131 (59.5%) 4 TDs 2 INTs
Ben Roethlisberger: 81/120 (67.5%) 16 TDs 0 INTs
Bruce Gradkowski: 33/54 (61.1%) 3 TDs 1 INT
Running Back Carries:
Brandon Brown-Dukes: 43
Fitzgerald Toussaint: 42
Daryl Richardson: 41
Cameron Stingily: 31
Le’Veon Bell: 29
DeAngelo Williams: 22
Christian Powell: 21
Roosevelt Nix: 10
Dustin Vaughan: 6
Brandon Johnson: 4
Bruce Gradkowski: 3
Landry Jones: 2
Ben Roethlisberger: 2
Antonio Brown: 1
Darrius Heyward-Bey: 1
Wide Receiver Targets-Catches-Touchdowns-Catch %
Antonio Brown: 44-59-16-74.6%
Sammie Coates: 27-37-0-73%
Eli Rogers: 26-35-4-74.3%
Le’Veon Bell: 21-30-4-70%
Levi Norwood: 15-27-2-55.5%
Darrius Heyward-Bey: 17-25-0-68%
Jesse James: 16-24-2-66.7%
Xavier Grimble: 16-23-4-69.6%
Marcus Tucker: 7-19-0-36.8%
Daryl Richardson: 14-17-0-82.3%
Issac Blakeney: 10-17-0-58.8%
Paul Lang: 10-15-0-66.7%
Demarcus Ayers: 9-13-2-69.2%
Cobi Hamilton: 8-13-0-61.5%
DeAngelo Williams: 7-12-0-58.3%
Roosevelt Nix: 9-10-3-90%
Fitzgerald Toussaint: 8-10-0-80%
David Johnson: 8-9-2-88.9%
Brandon Brown-Dukes: 7-8-0-87.5%
Markus Wheaton: 2-6-1-33.3%
Michael Cooper: 4-5-0-80%
Cameron Stingily: 1-4-0-25%
Christian Powell: 1-3-0-33.3%
Canaan Severin: 1-1-0-100%
Brandon Johnson: 0-1-0-0%
Jake Phillips: 0-1-0-0%
Drops:
Marcus Tucker: 3
Markus Wheaton: 3
Darrius Heyward-Bey: 2
Paul Lang: 2
DeAngelo Williams: 2
Issac Blakeney: 1
Sammie Coates: 1
Xavier Grimble: 1
David Johnson: 1
Levi Norwood: 1
Christian Powell: 1
Daryl Richardson: 1
Eli Rogers: 1
Cameron Stingily: 1
Fitzgerald Toussaint: 1
Interceptions:
Anthony Chickillo: 1
L.J. Fort: 1
William Gay: 1
Jacob Hagen: 1
Tyler Matakevich: 1
Donald Washington: 1
Final Thoughts
Quarterback
– Landry Jones has steadily increased his training camp completion percentage since we’ve been tracking it since 2014. Here they are year-by-year.
2014: 63.6%
2015: 65.4%
2016: 68.6%
He threw an interception once every 23.4 attempts in 2015. This year? Once every 46.7 throws.
– Since 2014, no quarterback had gone through an entire camp without being picked off. Until Ben Roethlisberger this season.
– Dustin Vaughan’s 59.5 completion percentage is the lowest of the 13 examples since we’ve studied them. He’s the first quarterback to go through camp below 60%. The previous low was Brendon Kay’s 60.4% in 2014.
– The six combined interceptions this year was the lowest of any of the three seasons.
Running Back
– Le’Veon Bell’s workload in camp is more similar to 2014 than last season. In 2014, he had 25 carries in the 11 practices we calculated. In 2015, which, granted, spanned 18 practices, he had 66 carries. Still, he’s been scaled pretty far back with just 29 carries in this year’s camp (11 practices).
– The top three back’s workload looks strikingly similar to 2014. Here are the years side-by-side.
Jordan Hall: 44
Miguel Maysonet: 42
Tauren Poole: 41
Brandon Brown-Dukes: 43
Fitzgerald Toussaint: 42
Daryl Richardson: 41
Wide Receiver
– Antonio Brown’s 74.6% catch rate is the highest in the three years. 67.6% in 2014, 69% last year. And despite having seven fewer practices this camp, Brown had two more touchdowns, 16 to 14.
And his 59 targets would’ve ranked second, only behind himself, last season too. Again, despite seven fewer practices.
One last stat. He went through camp this year without a single drop in team drills. That’s a first for him.
– Sammie Coates is the first receiver with 30+ targets to not catch a touchdown.
– It’s not all his fault of course but Marcus Tucker’s catch rate of 36.8% is the lowest of any player with 10+ targets we’ve looked at. The previous low was Derek Moye’s 41.1% in 2014 (14/34).
– With how limited Wheaton was, he caught just two passes in team drills this time around. He had 18 and 24 grabs the past two seasons. We’ll see how much rust there is to shake off.
– Darrius Heyward-Bey’s team drill drops lowered from five in 2015 to just two this year.
Defensive Backs
– I only started tracking interceptions last season. But in 2015, there were three players with at least two interceptions. There wasn’t a single defender who did that this year.
– Kevin Fogg had nearly as many camp INTs last year as the whole defense did this year. Fogg’s five versus the defense’s six.
