In his first full season as an NFL starter, 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo made his second appearance on the NFL’s Top 100 Players list, reaching number 43 on the list.
The Top 100 Players of 2020 count the top NFL players as determined solely by the players themselves. NFL Films collected 970 ballots and interviewed 132 players during the process.
Only a year after an LCA injury, Garoppolo helped the 49ers to a 13-win season, an NFC West championship and a Super Bowl appearance. The quarterback started all 16 games for the first time in his career and posted career highs in one season in attempts (476), completions (329), yards (3,978), touchdowns (27), runs (46) and yards per Ground (62) in 2019. Garoppolo surpassed the 1994 Steve Young season, where the Hall of Fame quarterback threw for 3,969 yards, accumulating the fourth-highest number of passes in a single season by a quarterback in history. of the franchise.
Garoppolo is the only quarterback in the top 5 in yards per attempt (8.4), passing touchdowns (27) and completion percentage (69.1).
