His best season in his career to date (total yds passing), he amassed 3127 yards.
This season he has only thrown for 9 tds in 8 games.
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OK.
In his best rushing season in his career so far (total yards rushing), he amassed 1206 yards. That would be the comparison appropriate for thinking about your original assertion that "[h]e’s not as great of a threat throwing the ball as he is running with it." And notice that his best passing season accounted for about 2.6 times as much yardage as his best rushing season (they both happened in the same NFL season, the 2019 season, when he was the league MVP).
That's a ridiculously large amount of rushing yardage for a QB, and it's exceedingly unlikely he'll ever get anywhere close to it again, especially now that he's got such big cap hits and the Ravens have to protect that investment. And it's
way less yardage than he has produced
passing in every season in which he's started more than seven games (in 2018, he started just seven and had 1201 passing yards, so about the same yardage as his greatest rushing season, but the passing was done in seven games and the rushing in sixteen). Jackson's lowest passing-yardage season other than his seven-start 2018 was 2022, when he started just 12 games and had 2719 passing yards.
So once again, I'll agree that Jackson will be
ranked higher among current NFL starting QBs as a rusher than he will be
ranked as a passer, but in terms of absolute production, he produces significantly more yardage per pass attempt than per rushing attempt. And there hasn't been a single season in his career when that wasn't the case.
I used ANY/A to measure Jackson's net yards per attempt instead of raw Y/A, so that bad outcomes are properly accounted for on the passing side. His raw Y/A over his career is 7.4, but his ANY/A is 6.68. Even making that adjustment, the only time in Jackson's career when he produced even close to the same yardage per rushing attempt as per passing attempt was in 2021. His 2021 rushing YPC was 5.77, and his 2021 ANY/A was 5.78, so pretty much equal. Other than that one twelve-game season for Jackson, he's been more productive in net yards as a passer than as a rusher, and even in the 2021 season, he produced almost exactly the same amount of yardage per pass (just a tiny fraction of a yard
more per pass, technically) as he produced in yardage per rushing attempt.