Denver Broncos rookie quarterback Bo Nix had perhaps the best game of his career against the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday, completing 70.4% of his passes for 206 yards with two touchdown passes and no interceptions. He also rushed for a touchdown in a 34-18 win.
Despite that positive performance, Nix dropped from No. 20 down to No. 25 in ESPN’s Total QBR rankings this week. Strangely, ESPN gave Nix a 26.9 Total QBR rating against the Raiders, his worst of the season. That dropped Nix’s season-long rating down to 43.1.
Nix’s traditional passer rating against Las Vegas was 117.2, which represented his best passer rating thus far.
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.”
Nix had no turnovers against the Raiders, but he was sacked three times. Here’s a look at how Nix stacks up against the NFL’s other starting quarterbacks this fall.
NFL QBs ranked by Total QBR after Week 5
- Josh Allen: 77.6
- Joe Burrow: 73.6
- Jayden Daniels: 73.2
- Andy Dalton: 67.1
- Lamar Jackson: 67.1
- Kyler Murray: 66.4
- Brock Purdy: 66.0
- C.J. Stroud: 64.4
- Baker Mayfield: 64.0
- Derek Carr: 63.6
- Geno Smith: 63.5
- Daniel Jones: 61.3
- Jalen Hurts: 59.3
- Sam Darnold: 58.7
- Dak Prescott: 56.8
- Patrick Mahomes: 55.8
- Kirk Cousins: 55.2
- Matthew Stafford: 53.8
- Trevor Lawrence: 53.2
- Anthony Richardson: 49.3
- Aaron Rodgers: 49.1
- Justin Fields: 48.0
- Jordan Love: 46.1
- Jared Goff: 44.8
- Bo Nix: 43.1
- Justin Herbert: 41.8
- Gardner Minshew: 41.1
- Jacoby Brissett: 38.9
- Caleb Williams: 36.3
- Will Levis: 27.3
- Tyler Huntley: 23.5
- Deshaun Watson: 21.0
Nix and the Broncos will host the Los Angeles Chargers in Week 6.
