Blake Bortles finished tied for 2nd in passing touchdowns and 7th in passing yards

Allen Robinson finished tied for 1st in receiving touchdowns and 6th in receiving yards. He also had the highest yards per reception average of any player with 1,000 receiving yards

Allen Hurns also hit the 1,000-yard mark, and had the 6th highest yards per reception average of any player with 1,000 receiving yards. Hurns and Robinson were one of just four duos (Jets, Broncos, Cardinals) to have two players gain 1,000 receiving yards.

After a 1-4 start to the season, it might have felt like an odd time to write about how the Jacksonville Jaguars could have the next great offense. But in many ways, Jacksonville’s passing attack only got better as the season went along. Some (the majority?) of the big numbers were more of a function of quantity than quality, but the numbers really were big. Consider:

That’s an impressive trio by any standard, but what’s incredible is that Hurns was born in November of 1991, and he is the oldest of the three! So how young is the Jaguars passing attack compared to other teams? I have decided to create a passing yards-weighted age grade for each passing attack. And in doing so, I chose to count passing yards and receiving yards equally, which of course has the effect of making the quarterback(s) equal to half of the team’s passing game. I’m OK with that.

So Blake Bortles is responsible for 50% of the Jaguars passing yards, Robinson for 15.8%, Hurns for 11.6%, and so on. With this methodology — you can see it below — the 2015 Jaguars passing attack has a weighted age of 23.9 years:

That’s really young, but to my surprise, it wasn’t the youngest in the NFL last year. That honor would go to the Tampa Bay Bucs:

Rk Team Yds Yds Rk Age 1 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 8084 19 23.4 2 Jacksonville Jaguars 8856 9 23.9 3 Minnesota Vikings 6492 29 24.2 4 Oakland Raiders 8258 16 24.8 5 Tennessee Titans 7788 22 25.1 6 Buffalo Bills 7206 27 25.4 7 Miami Dolphins 8462 12 25.8 8 Cincinnati Bengals 8208 17 26.4 9 Washington Redskins 8588 11 26.5 10 St. Louis Rams 5864 30 26.5 11 Seattle Seahawks 4098 31 26.7 12 Philadelphia Eagles 8682 10 27.1 13 Detroit Lions 8932 7 27.4 14 San Francisco 49ers 7292 26 27.5 15 Houston Texans 8158 18 27.6 16 Cleveland Browns 8312 15 28.4 17 Baltimore Ravens 8901 8 28.5 18 Carolina Panthers 3909 32 28.5 19 Kansas City Chiefs 6986 28 28.6 20 Atlanta Falcons 9204 5 28.8 21 Green Bay Packers 7650 24 29.1 22 Indianapolis Colts 7856 20 29.4 23 Chicago Bears 7686 23 29.5 24 Dallas Cowboys 7356 25 29.8 25 New York Giants 9019 6 29.8 26 New York Jets 8347 14 30.4 27 Denver Broncos 8432 13 30.4 28 Pittsburgh Steelers 7813 21 30.7 29 San Diego Chargers 9710 2 31.1 30 Arizona Cardinals 9550 4 31.4 31 New Orleans Saints 10410 1 31.5 32 New England Patriots 9624 3 32.7

This list is, of course, going to be heavily influenced by the age of the starting quarterback. That’s up to each reader to determine if that’s an appropriate way to weigh things. That said, let’s take a look at the Bucs in more depth:

Tampa Bay has an even younger quarterback its own star receiver born in August of 1993. What the Bucs are missing, though, is that second young star wideout, though perhaps Sefarian-Jenkins can develop into that role.