We love Dalton Sturm. Yes, we were slow to come around, but we fell hard for the junior from Goliad. What's not to like? He's a former multi-sport star from a smaller high school, a walk-on, dude was a hurdler for Pete's sake, he can make all the throws, and he's gutsy. Why does being a hurdler matter? The old man, when he was coaching, always said that hurdlers are among the most disciplined yet athletic athletes in the world. If you're any good at running hurdles, you mastered timing, technique and efficiency, and you're doing it all while trying to run fast. Sturm ran the fastest 110 hurdles time in 2A his senior year. He finished 6th at State in the 300 meter hurdles. Translation: Special Athlete. Thanks, now we'll climb down off our hurdling soap box.

There's a lot to like about Sturm, but there's also a lot to wonder about.

Ok, we're suckers for radar graphs and all other demonstratives, we have excel and we use it at times ineffectively, but whatever. We track quarterbacks through 8-10 criteria the most important of which (and we totally stole this from Bill Connelly over at football study hall) are completion percentage, interception rate, sack rate, yards per attempt, and yards per play (taking into account passing, sack, and rushing yardage). We take those five indicators and every quarterback with 100 or attempts and give each quarterback a percentile rank amongst his peers. Is it flawless? Nope. Does it give us a pretty good indicator of how efficient a quarterback is? You bet. If you rank in the top 75 in terms of percentile, you're really good, probably elite. If you rank in the top 50% that's a decent number. Below that and we've got some work to do.

Let's compare Sturm, vintage 2015 with Sturm from 2016.