Houston Texans second-year quarterback C.J. Stroud posted a Total QBR rating of 23.7 in the team’s 32-27 loss against the Tennessee Titans in Week 12. That performance knocked his season-long Total QBR average to 51.3.
That’s a slight decline from last week’s rating (52.2), which is why Stroud’s ranking among QBs (No. 24) dropped three spots from last week (No. 21).
Nix’s traditional passer rating this season is 87.3, which ranks 25th.
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, here’s a look at how Stroud stacks up against the NFL’s other starting quarterbacks entering Thanksgiving weekend
NFL QBs ranked by Total QBR after Week 12
- Lamar Jackson: 75.9
- Joe Burrow: 75.6
- Josh Allen: 73.2
- Kyler Murray: 72.5
- Brock Purdy: 67.6
- Patrick Mahomes: 66.8
- Jameis Winston: 66.7
- Jayden Daniels: 66.5
- Jalen Hurts: 63.7
- Matthew Stafford: 62.4
- Trevor Lawrence: 61.8
- Derek Carr: 61.7
- Tua Tagovailoa: 60.0
- Sam Darnold: 59.4
- Baker Mayfield: 59.3
- Jordan Love: 58.4
- Justin Herbert: 58.1
- Jared Goff: 57.1
- Drake Maye: 57.7
- Kirk Cousins: 56.8
- Bo Nix: 55.9
- Geno Smith: 54.6
- Aaron Rodgers: 51.4
- C.J. Stroud: 51.3
- Russell Wilson: 50.1
- Caleb Williams: 48.9
- Aidan O’Connell: 47.3
- Anthony Richardson: 45.9
- Will Levis: 36.4
- Bryce Young: 35.8
- Cooper Rush: 33.2
- Drew Lock: 9.3
Stroud will look to improve his Total QBR rating when the Texans travel east to take on the Jacksonville Jaguars in a battle of AFC South foes this Sunday at noon CT.
