Thin Margins

Bo Nix dropped back to pass more often than any quarterback in football, and the season around it looked like an arrival: just under 4,000 yards, 25 touchdowns, fourteen wins, the top seed in the conference, a second-year quarterback whose team finished a game short of the Super Bowl. On a per-dropback basis he ranked fourteenth of thirty-two qualified passers. Both pictures are his, and the…