The Pittsburgh Steelers find themselves at a crossroads with the quarterback position. Justin Fields has played well the last five games in place of Russell Wilson, but not without his errors. Now Wilson is healthy ahead of Sunday’s game against the Las Vegas Raiders but the team hasn’t decided who will get the start.
Fields is currently No. 22 in the NFL in Total QBR, ahead of quarterbacks like Jared Goff and Justin Herbert.
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.”
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
