Giants vs Steelers Match Player Stats | Week 8 Monday 2024

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Giants vs Steelers Match Player Stats | Week 8 Monday 2024

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Todays Matchup Details

Week 8 New York Giants at Pittsburgh Steelers
Todays Game is on Monday, October 28th
28/10/24 20:15:00 PM EST Kickoff

Key Match Player Stats to this Game

The Pittsburgh Steelers have run the 6th-most plays in the league this year, averaging a whopping 59.7 plays per game.

Pat Freiermuth has run a route on 78.0% of his team’s passing plays this year, ranking him in the 89th percentile when it comes to TEs.

The leading projections forecast Pat Freiermuth to accrue 4.2 targets in this game, on average, ranking him in the 77th percentile when it comes to TEs.

Pat Freiermuth has accrued a colossal 22.0 air yards per game this year: 78th percentile when it comes to tight ends.

Pat Freiermuth’s 37.0 adjusted receiving yards per game this year shows an impressive boost in his pass-catching prowess over last year’s 29.0 figure.

Opposing QBs have completed passes at the highest rate in football vs. the Giants defense this year (78.3% Adjusted Completion%).

In this week’s contest, George Pickens is forecasted by the model to finish in the 81st percentile when it comes to wideouts with 7.4 targets.

George Pickens has put up quite a few more air yards this year (98.0 per game) than he did last year (89.0 per game).

George Pickens’s 80.0 WOPR (Weighted Opportunity Rating—an advanced stat that quantifies high-value offensive usage) has been substantially better this season than it was last season at 62.5.

George Pickens has been one of the leading pass-catching WRs this year, averaging a terrific 63.0 adjusted yards per game while checking in at the 90th percentile.

Given their underlying propensities and matchup dynamics, our trusted projections expect the Pittsburgh Steelers to run on 51.8% of their opportunities: the 2nd-greatest rate among all teams this week.

Najee Harris has averaged 68.0 adjusted rushing yards per game this year, one of the biggest figures in the league among RBs (83rd percentile).

This year, the daunting Giants run defense has yielded a measly 5.78 adjusted yards-per-carry to opposing squads: the 32nd-lowest rate in the NFL.

Negative Match Player Stats Trends that should impact this Game

The Steelers are a 3-point underdog in this week’s game, likely creating a passing game script.

Accounting for their underlying propensities and matchup dynamics, the predictive model expects the Steelers to pass on 48.2% of their plays: the 2nd-lowest rate among all teams this week.

The predictive model expects this game to have the lowest volume of plays run among all games this week at 125.0 plays, given the tendencies of each team and game dynamics.

Opposing offenses teams have been afraid to test the pass defense of the Giants, averaging the 8th-fewest attempts in football (a lowly 29.9 per game) this year.

The New York Giants pass defense has excelled when opposing TEs have gotten into space, giving up an average of 2.68 yards-after-the-catch this year: the fewest in football.

The projections expect Russell Wilson to throw 27.4 passes in this game, on balance: the fewest out of all quarterbacks.

George Pickens’s 1.94 yards-after-the-catch (YAC) this year shows a significant decrease in his efficiency in space over last year’s 5.9% figure.

The Giants defensive tackles profile as the best DT corps in the NFL this year when it comes to defending the run.

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