I was suuuuper curious about the fastest player on the field (i.e., in full pads on game day), and the play-specific data includes acceleration as one of its data points. Miranda on our team (co-author of the post) dialed up a query to show the top 3, one of whom is Tyreek Hill. (The other two don’t play that much)

Should add, I’m a big fan of all the football metrics providers and follow them all religiously during the season. The NFL dataset we found isn’t as comprehensive, but it’s still really fun!

What are some of the other football data providers

It’s not time-series data, but my favorite is Pro Football Focus: https://www.pff.com/subscribe

If the NFL made its data available weekly, you could probably join it with PFF data for some interesting insight. There’s a ton of power in joining time-series metrics with purely relational data.