The Pittsurgh Steelers offense (24.8 SWA) was also close to the youngest we've tracked. The Lions were the fourth-youngest team since 2006 and the Chiefs ranked seventh. But one result of the league as a whole getting younger is that the youngest teams in SWA are all recent. The overall SWA for the entire league has dropped gradually over a decade before stabalizing at 26.4 during the last four years. The youngest teams in 2022 were very young, historically young in fact. Units are ranked from oldest to youngest. The following table shows SWA for the overall team (TOT), along with the unit breakdown for offense, defense, and special teams. For just offense, the correlation was -0.27. However, for just 2022, the correlation of SWA and DVOA was negative at -0.15. For the last five years, the correlation of SWA and total DVOA was 0.26. Usually, there is some correlation where the better teams come out with a higher SWA. (Buffalo was seventh, San Francisco ninth, Minnesota 10th, and Philadelphia 11th). None of the six oldest teams in the league last season had a winning record, although the Tampa Bay Buccaneers did make the playoffs at 8-9 and there were playoff teams in the SWA top 10 and close to it. The Saints and Patriots were boosted in age by having the oldest and second-oldest defenses in the NFL, respectively.
Instead, the oldest team in the league was the New Orleans Saints, who led the NFL with a snap-weighted age of 27.6, 0.27 ahead of the second-place Patriots. The oldest team in the league also wasn't the Green Bay Packers with 39-year-old Aaron Rodgers at quarterback. They finished third overall, although first on offense. Four of the eight teams with SWA below 26.0 made the playoffs, including not just the Chiefs but also the New York Giants (25.5), Cincinnati Bengals (25.7) and Dallas Cowboys (25.9)?Īnd on the other side of the table? The oldest team in the league, shockingly, was not the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with 45-year-old Tom Brady at quarterback. The only team younger than them? The playoff-contending Detroit Lions at 25.3.
The Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs ended up 31st with a total snap-weighted age (SWA) of just 25.4. NFL Offseason - Youth was served in the NFL of 2022.
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