GWDs – FootballPerspective.com http://www.footballperspective.com NFL History and Stats Sun, 09 Dec 2012 04:11:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Checkdowns: Most Game Winning Drives in First 12 games http://www.footballperspective.com/checkdowns-most-game-winning-drives-in-first-12-games/ http://www.footballperspective.com/checkdowns-most-game-winning-drives-in-first-12-games/#comments Sat, 08 Dec 2012 21:13:08 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=5029 Scott Kacsmar, friend of Football Perspective and the leading writer on quarterback comebacks, noted that Andrew Luck has 5 game-winning drives in his first 12 games. Where does that rank historically?

To be clear, game-winning drives are not an official statistic, and while Kacsmar has gone through thousands of games to record data on the subject, we can’t confirm that the below list in 100% complete. With that disclaimer out of the way, the table below displays all quarterbacks with at least 3 game-winning drives in their first 12 NFL games:

Tim Tebow led a game-winning drive in half of his first twelve starts.

If we look just at quarterbacks in their first 12 starts, well, a different name vaults to the top of the list. Tim Tebow launched a phenomenon known as Tebow-mania last year, thanks to his dramatic comebacks seemingly every week last November and December.

Luck’s career trajectory looks to be on a much better path than Tebow, Jay Schroeder or John Skelton, but hey, I don’t make the trivia, I just present it.

The table below shows how many game-winning drives were led by quarterbacks in their first 12 starts. Thanks to Scott Kacsmar and Pro-Football-Reference.com for the data.

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