With Carson Wentz done for the season, we get to throw it back to 2014, as Nick Foles runs the Philadelphia Eagles' offense.
The 55 passes he threw last year weren't nearly enough to draw any sort of conclusions from (though he had a lot of success in his limited playing time in Kansas City, posting an adjusted net yards per attempt of 7.39). That leaves his career-worst 2015 campaign as our most recent sample to look at. That makes it easy to write him off -- as he was awful with the Rams.
Broadening our view to the four seasons in which he dropped back at least 200 times though, things don't look so grim:
| Season | Drop Backs | Passing NEP Per Drop Back | ANY/A |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 285 | -0.05 | 5.13 |
| 2013 | 346 | 0.31 | 9.18 |
| 2014 | 321 | 0.05 | 5.93 |
| 2015 | 351 | -0.17 | 4.68 |
He has a career-average 0.04 Passing NEP per drop back and 6.32 adjusted net yards per attempt. That Passing NEP mark would rank 23rd among the 40 passers with at least 100 drop backs this season, and his adjusted net yards per attempt would rank 17th. Not exactly poor marks.
Foles has the luxury of drawing a great matchup for his first start of the season. The New York Giants rank in the bottom 10 against the pass, per our schedule-adjusted metrics, and they have allowed the league's most fantasy points per game to opposing quarterbacks.