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Move Over, Rookies: Midlevel Veterans Are Having a Moment

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The NFL keeps getting younger, but the oldest teams are winning Super Bowls, which has led coaches and general managers to turn to an undervalued resource to build their rosters.

There is a metric called snap-weighted age that goes a long way toward telling the story of what is happening in football. Developed by Football Outsiders in 2012, it measures the average age of an NFL team adjusted for how many snaps each player plays during the season. In 2018, that number hit a record low—26.5 years old—for the third straight year.

NFL 's Youth Veteran Movement

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Posted : Aug. 16, 2019 8:03 am
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