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Jameis Winston

Risk-taking passer wants to stay in New Orleans

Saw a story this week that Jameis Winston wants to stay in New Orleans, content to serve as a backup to Derek Carr. Evidently he's really happy with the organization and the community, or else he's decided the ship has sailed on any NFL team viewing him a starting quarterback. Maybe both.

Lots of teams looking for starting quarterbacks, but I don't think any of them will be particularly interested in handing Winston the keys to the offense. While he had some success at the start of his career, the negatives of his game seem a little too substantial to overcome.

Since Winston entered the league in 2015, there's one stat where he's been more productive than any other quarterback. You guessed it: interceptions. In the last nine seasons, his 99 interceptions is tops in the NFL. That's despite being a backup quarterback since the 2019 season -- he's started only 10 games the last four years. All the other quarterbacks in the top 5 in interceptions over that timeframe started at least 50 percent more games than he did.

No. 2 in terms of interceptions since 2015, ironically enough, is New Orleans' starter Derek Carr. But Carr hasn't been overly interception prone. His 95 interceptions have come in 143 starts, which works out to around 10-11 interception per season -- not too bad.

Passing totals since 2015, sorted by interceptions, are shown below. Search tools at pro-football-reference.com were used in compiling this table.

TOTAL PASSING STATS SINCE 2015
PlayerStartsYardsTDINT
Jameis Winston802210414199
Derek Carr1433583022195
Matthew Stafford1293433322695
Matt Ryan1243462620092
Kirk Cousins1363644125291
Philip Rivers962678516987
Jared Goff1173042918582
Ben Roethlisberger892503116780
Russell Wilson1403370326280
Josh Allen932270316778
Andy Dalton992375314778
Baker Mayfield862033213074
Dak Prescott1142945920274
Ryan Tannehill1032362915373
Cam Newton821795611269
Tom Brady1263595625769
Ryan Fitzpatrick581571710068
Carson Wentz932229215367
Joe Flacco73184059765
Patrick Mahomes962842421963
Eli Manning671726810759
Blake Bortles60147419258
Sam Darnold56120646356
Marcus Mariota74158209355
Jimmy Garoppolo63153129351
Drew Brees852432517549
Mitchell Trubisky57125367248
Aaron Rodgers1213047724948
Kyler Murray65156479446
Deshaun Watson651675611845
Lamar Jackson771588712545
Case Keenum56129806843
Justin Herbert621722311442
Andrew Luck38107148540
Daniel Jones59125126240
Trevor Lawrence50117705839
Tua Tagovailoa51126398137
Joe Burrow52140839737
Mac Jones4289184636
Teddy Bridgewater53122016135
Jalen Hurts51117646734
Alex Smith62147927733
Trevor Siemian3377514432
Carson Palmer38108827032
Nick Mullens2063913431
Brock Osweiler3072593631
Jay Cutler3473844430
Nick Foles3474743630
Justin Fields3866744030

--Andy Richardson

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