In general, I think you need to be VERY careful about making any kind of judgement about a players' ability (or lack of) based solely on ANY statistic.
What I would say, in response to a few of the posts above, is that you also need to be very careful comparing players from different teams, or who play different roles.
For example, I see posts comparing Declan Rice with Scott McTominay and Fred. Well, I would expect Fred and McTominay to have better and more progressive passing stats, because they play in a team likely to dominate the ball. If you look at Rice's stats for West Ham, compared to his stats playing for England over the Summer, they look significantly better when he plays for England - unsurprising because England were technically a better team than many of the opponents they faced and had most of the ball.
It doesn't take much to understand that this is obvious really. I played a Sunday League game two weeks ago, we won 6-1 and I barely recall giving the ball away (I play CM). Two weeks later, we play top of the league with a depleted side (too many lads down the pub Saturday night!) and we get given the run-around and tonked 7-1. I spent most of the game running, tackling, covering and filling gaps and when we did get the ball, there are barely any options to make a forward pass because we're being penned in. So of course, my percentage passes forwards and my total passes completed is going to be significantly worse than the previous game. Doesn't matter the level, the same is true for any CM depending on whether their team is dominating the ball or largely playing without it. Put Rice in the United/Chelsea/City team and I virtually guarantee he would massively outperform Fred and probably McTominay too.