Quinyon Mitchell Put Terry McLaurin in the Eastern State Penitentiary

This is a beautiful graphic. Print it out, buy a frame, and hang it on the wall:

Quinyon Mitchell aligned across from Terry McLaurin on 20 of 25 routes (80%), including 19 of 20 aligned wide (95%).

Mitchell was not targeted on any of his coverage snaps against McLaurin and was targeted just once all night (0 receptions allowed).#WASvsPHI | #FlyEaglesFly pic.twitter.com/ivlaRKu6rx

— Next Gen Stats (@NextGenStats) November 15, 2024

This might be weird to say, but does anyone else feel like Mitchell isn’t getting enough love? We’ve talked about Jalen Carter. We’ve talked about Zack Baun. We’ve talked about Cooper DeJean. Mitchell has been as good as any of those guys, respectively, with what he’s been asked to do.

MLFootball is one of the big aggregator accounts on social media, and he/she cobbled together this information on targets and receptions Mitchell has allowed on a week-by-week basis:

• Week 1: Packers – 1 Rec, 6 Yds
• Week 2: Drake London – 1 Rec, 5 Yds
• Week 3: Chris Olave – 2 Rec, 23 Yds
• Week 4: Mike Evans – 2 Rec, 19 Yds
• Week 6: Amari Cooper – 1 Rec, 10 Yds
• Week 7: Malik Nabers – 1 Rec, 9 Yds
• Week 8: Ja’Marr Chase – 2 Rec, 19 Yds
• Week 9: Jaguars – 1 Rec, 11 Yds
• Week 10: CeeDee Lamb – 2 Rec, 14 Yds
• Week 11: Terry McLaurin – 0 Rec, 0 Yds

Someone once suggested that we look at Pro Football Focus stats, but ignore the grades they hand out (for coverage, they only grade targets, which would explain the fugazi-ness). The approach is backed by the data they have for the Eagles rookie. He is only graded with a 73.2 in coverage, yet when you add up their numbers he’s allowed 23 receptions on 41 targets for 291 yards and 0 touchdowns. He’s allowed just 49 yards after the catch, he has 7 pass break ups, and the longest completion he conceded was 33 yards and came way back in week 1, his NFL debut in Brazil. Mitchell, by the way, has only been flagged three times on 546 snaps and only missed three tackles all season long.

For further context, McLaurin was coming off a game where he caught five passes for 113 yards. He caught two touchdown passes the week prior, and the week before that, hauled in five of eight targets for 125. Thursday night, he caught one of two targets for 10 yards. That’s it.

Mitchell didn’t just put McLaurin in jail, he had him in the Russian gulag. We’re talking the deepest part of Siberia. Somewhere around here on the map, I imagine:

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