Top 5 NFL Rushing Attempts by a QB

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Through Week 3:

1. Griffin III, Washington (30 attempts)
2. Newton, Carolina (22 attempts)
t3. Vick, Philadelphia (14 attempts)
t3. Wilson, Seattle (14 attempts)
5. Luck, Indianapolis (10 attempts)

A couple takeaways from this list:

Young players run more anyways than veterans. If you have a young player who isn't mobile, that's a really difficult development curve to handle. Even though you win in the modern day NFL by throwing the football, if your QB can't move, he's never going to enjoy enough early career success to develop (looking at you, Mr. Weeden).

None of these five players have been particularly efficient this year throwing the football. Griffin and Luck have been the best so far, but the Redskins have a top offense because they've been the best rushing offense in the game thus far. The passing game has been good, but not great. Not really of any fault to Griffin, but he does take too many sacks and doesn't always throw the ball away when he needs to.

Kevin Kolb, Christian Ponder, and Matt Ryan are all at the top of the league in passing efficiency this year. But I guess you need a great arm to compete in the NFL these days. Greg Cosell says its true!

Overall, our offensive efficiency numbers though 3 games are pretty similar to how they were in 2008 through the 4-1 start. The difference between the ZornSkins and the KyleShanSkins are on the other sides of the ball: defense and special teams.

P.S. according to VOA, the worst defense in the league hasn't been the Redskins. It's been...the Cincinnati Bengals. Go figure.