Is Dwyane Haskins struggling?

The Washington Post’s Neil Greenberg uses TruMedia’s EPA model and research tool to examine Dwayne Haskins’ struggles:

“ESPN’s assessment of Haskins is more in line with TruMedia’s expected points added metric, which calculates the number of points scored above or below what we would expect given the down, distance and field position of each of Haskins’s passing plays. Since Week 9, the Redskins have scored almost nine points per game fewer than expected on Haskins’s throws, the third-worst mark over that span. Only the Jacksonville Jaguars (9.1 fewer points per game than expected) and the Cincinnati Bengals (11.3 fewer) are worse during passing plays over the past four weeks.” …

“When former coach Jay Gruden benched Keenum in favor of Haskins in Week 4, Haskins had eight of his 17 pass attempts (47 percent) result in a positive change of expected points added, plays that TruMedia tags as “successful.” He had a similar rate of successful throws in Week 9 (10 of 22, 45 percent) but has been on the decline ever since. Again, sacks are holding him back. Each sack taken by a quarterback reduces a team’s expected points scored on that drive by 1.75, on average, with a sack on third and short, like the one Haskins took in the second quarter of Sunday’s win, reducing his team’s expected points for that drive by more than two points.”

Full article: The Washington Post