Scout five games on Sunday that have a major impact on the playoffs

Cardinals’ playoff percentage: 49.9
The Rams’ playoff percentage: 82.3

The winner of this game got a place in the playoffs. If Los Angeles loses, the Rams can still lose to Green Bay in the playoffs.

With Jared Goff’s thumb surgery coming to an end, John Wolford will appear in the NFL as a starting player for the Rams on Sunday. After being an AAF analyst in the league’s only season, I took a closer look at Wolford’s last real game as the starting signaler of the Arizona Hotshots. Wolford leads the league in touchdown passes (1

4) while finishing fourth on the interception line (7). His field of competition is the most prominent? Deep pass, such as more than 20 air yards. Wolford’s high completion rate of 53.6% (15 out of 28) is the highest score in the league. He achieved the greatest success between the two numbers (based on professional football focus, a perfect score of 158.3) and in the outer right corner (each PFF, a perfect score of 125.0). One area of ​​concern is Wolford’s performance under pressure. Wolf (Holford) ranked second in the AAF sacks, Hotshots’ O line disappointed him (14), but he also made the most interceptions under pressure (6).

On the other side of the game, Cardinals receiver DeAndre Hopkins may see a lot of Jalen Ramsey. In Week 13 of the Rams’ 38-28 victory over Arizona, the next-generation statistics allowed Hopkins to face Ramsey on 85% of the route. According to the PFF, Hopkins was hit eight times while covered by Ramsey, catching three balls from 20 yards. NGS stated that Hopkins had more than 10 empty yards in that game, and in the loss to San Francisco last Sunday, his number of catches was zero, which is his only two this season. During the game, there was no ball. NGS also showed that Hopkins had 75 catches on a pass with less than 10 flying yards, and ranked sixth among all-around receivers in 2020, but he had only one touchdown catch in such throws.