[Pizzuta] Inspired by stevenruiz talking about Caleb Williams’ time to throw, I looked at what we can call Creation Time, which is the difference between time to pressure and time to throw when pressured, then plotted it against pressure to sack rate, per FTN. Caleb in a world of his own
November 13, 2025
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I love the invention of a new stat.
Yep. This was talked about on the Score yesterday too with people starting to realize this. People like Lamar and Allen are always really high in the time to throw category too because they can….and they create big plays from it. Caleb is doing the same thing. Avoiding sacks at an elite rate, and then running around looking for the big play which heavily skews the stat. He has been inches away from huge plays during these types of scramble drills pretty much every game it feels like. Just a matter of time before teams really start to pay for it
Truly a 1 of 1 QB.
So this means he’s good right?
He just needs to hit more of these made up throws!
Two things can be true at the same time.
1. Caleb’s TTT is high because he’s great at avoiding sacks, extending plays, and keeping his eyes downfield to throw – this is a good thing.
2. Caleb also needs to continue to get better at playing in structure and processing his reads – this includes him often playing too quickly and moving off primary reads and not allowing them to develop.
While there is some validity to the “Caleb needs to stop playing hero ball” narrative by most broadcast teams, it’s also been horrendously overblown as it’s an easy talking point that fits with the existing narrative about Caleb. It also ignores the massive strides he’s already taken in this area and ignores the positives of Caleb’s playmaker ability. The Giants win was solely based on Caleb’s ability yo extend plays and create.
This is awesome.
Don’t see too many new stats anymore. Feel like typically we just get graphs comparing two already existing ones!
I love when obscure new stats make Caleb look good but I hate when they make Love look good.
we just witnessed history…. it feels warm and fuzzy
Can’t wait until the created time leads to easy completions. Right now, everything seems more difficult after the scramble, which seems wrong.
Generational
Confirmed what we’re seeing.
It’s now the Caleb stat.
He’s beginning to believe.
He is the one.
post in r/nfl
Caleb has been so much better this year with avoiding sacks. The only issue thats really holding him back is accuracy. His uncatchable % is awful. If he can figure that last part out he’ll have a drake maye like jump. I will say as a fan of both teams drakes sack #s are a bit of a quirk to his style like big ben. Dude eats the most 1 yard sacks ive ever seen. His actual sack yardage lost is actually really good he just tries to big ben in the pocket instead of calebs elusive style and it works a lot but instead of throwaways he just eats 1 yard sacks which in reality is mostly the same difference. So I don’t love this stat as a whole. But some of the shit Caleb has done under pressure is wild
If Caleb can get some nuance on these throws on the run that aren’t rocket missles to the sideline there is absolutely a potential he can hit the Lamar/Allen/Mahomes stratosphere of absolute psychos who can elongate a play to get big chunks
16 comments
I love the invention of a new stat.
Yep. This was talked about on the Score yesterday too with people starting to realize this. People like Lamar and Allen are always really high in the time to throw category too because they can….and they create big plays from it. Caleb is doing the same thing. Avoiding sacks at an elite rate, and then running around looking for the big play which heavily skews the stat. He has been inches away from huge plays during these types of scramble drills pretty much every game it feels like. Just a matter of time before teams really start to pay for it
Truly a 1 of 1 QB.
So this means he’s good right?
He just needs to hit more of these made up throws!
Two things can be true at the same time.
1. Caleb’s TTT is high because he’s great at avoiding sacks, extending plays, and keeping his eyes downfield to throw – this is a good thing.
2. Caleb also needs to continue to get better at playing in structure and processing his reads – this includes him often playing too quickly and moving off primary reads and not allowing them to develop.
While there is some validity to the “Caleb needs to stop playing hero ball” narrative by most broadcast teams, it’s also been horrendously overblown as it’s an easy talking point that fits with the existing narrative about Caleb. It also ignores the massive strides he’s already taken in this area and ignores the positives of Caleb’s playmaker ability. The Giants win was solely based on Caleb’s ability yo extend plays and create.
This is awesome.
Don’t see too many new stats anymore. Feel like typically we just get graphs comparing two already existing ones!
I love when obscure new stats make Caleb look good but I hate when they make Love look good.
we just witnessed history…. it feels warm and fuzzy
Can’t wait until the created time leads to easy completions. Right now, everything seems more difficult after the scramble, which seems wrong.
Generational
Confirmed what we’re seeing.
It’s now the Caleb stat.
He’s beginning to believe.
He is the one.
post in r/nfl
Caleb has been so much better this year with avoiding sacks. The only issue thats really holding him back is accuracy. His uncatchable % is awful. If he can figure that last part out he’ll have a drake maye like jump. I will say as a fan of both teams drakes sack #s are a bit of a quirk to his style like big ben. Dude eats the most 1 yard sacks ive ever seen. His actual sack yardage lost is actually really good he just tries to big ben in the pocket instead of calebs elusive style and it works a lot but instead of throwaways he just eats 1 yard sacks which in reality is mostly the same difference. So I don’t love this stat as a whole. But some of the shit Caleb has done under pressure is wild
If Caleb can get some nuance on these throws on the run that aren’t rocket missles to the sideline there is absolutely a potential he can hit the Lamar/Allen/Mahomes stratosphere of absolute psychos who can elongate a play to get big chunks