Some fellow in the comments section of an FO piece by Doug Farrar (on why we should be excited about Jim Zorn) argued that Jason Campbell doesn't throw the ball deep, rather he just had good receivers who got him YACs. My response used statistics taken from CNNSI's stats page looking at QB splits and team stats. Here's what I found, though encourage all to check my numbers:
Re: Distance of JC's passes...
JC completed 250 passes last year. Their distribution ON DISTANCE TRAVELED IN THE AIR (not distance gained by receivers after the catch) was:
53 completed traveling behind LOS (21.2%)
148 completed traveling between 1-10 yards (59.2%)
37 completed traveling 11-20 yards (14.8%)
7 completed traveling 21-30 yards (2.8%)
2 completed traveling 31-40 yards (.8%)
3 completed traveling 41+ yards (1.2%)
Tony Romo, by comparison 335 total completions:
42 behind LOS (12.5%)
210 1-10 yards (62.6%)
58 11-20 yards (17.3%)
18 21-30 yards (5.3%)
7 31-40 yards (2%)
0 41+ yards (0%)
So, to sum up, 80% of the passes Jason Campbell threw did not travel past the 10 yard line. 75% of Tony Romo's completions did not travel beyond the 10 yard line. [For some other quarterbacks of note, including all starting foes in the East] that number was 75% for Eli Manning, 79% for Donovan McNabb, 78% for Tom Brady, 80% for Brett Favre, and 76% for Peyton Manning.