After throwing for just 60 yards against the New York Jets last week, Denver Broncos rookie quarterback Bo Nix has dropped from No. 17 to No. 20 in ESPN’s Total QBR rankings this week.
Unlike a traditional passer rating, the Total QBR “incorporates all of a quarterback’s contributions to winning, including how he impacts the game on passes, rushes, turnovers and penalties,” according to ESPN.
The metric takes into account scenarios that a traditional passer rating overlooks and considers “a team’s level of success or failure on every play to provide the proper context and then allocates credit to the quarterback and his teammate to produce a clearer measure of quarterback efficiency.”
With that context in mind, Nix has a Total QBR rating of 49.5 (out of 100) four games into the season. Here’s how that stacks up against the NFL’s other starting quarterbacks this fall.
NFL QBs ranked by Total QBR after Week 4
- Josh Allen: 82.3
- Andy Dalton: 76.1
- Sam Darnold: 73.5
- Jayden Daniels: 73.3
- Brock Purdy: 73.3
- Joe Burrow: 70.8
- Lamar Jackson: 68.8
- Kyler Murray: 68.1
- Derek Carr: 64.0
- Geno Smith: 63.9
- Jalen Hurts: 61.4
- C.J. Stroud: 61.3
- Baker Mayfield: 56.9
- Daniel Jones: 55.7
- Matthew Stafford: 54.9
- Dak Prescott: 53.9
- Patrick Mahomes: 52.9
- Justin Fields: 52.1
- Aaron Rodgers: 50.1
- Bo Nix: 49.5
- Anthony Richardson: 48.2
- Jared Goff: 47.2
- Trevor Lawrence: 44.4
- Kirk Cousins: 43.0
- Jacoby Brissett: 42.3
- Gardner Minshew: 41.5
- Justin Herbert: 41.4
- Jordan Love: 40.6
- Caleb Williams: 29.9
- Will Levis: 24.6
- Deshaun Watson: 23.7
- Tyler Huntley: 12.1
Nix and the Broncos will host the Las Vegas Raiders in Week 5.
