Denver Broncos rookie quarterback Bo Nix posted a Total QBR rating of 83.1 in a 33-10 victory over the New Orleans Saints last week, bringing his season-long Total QBR average to 49.2.
That’s an improvement from last week’s rating (44.0) and Nix has jumped from being ranked No. 28 last week up to No. 22 this week.
Nix’s traditional passer rating this season is 74.4, which ranks 28th.
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 Nix stacks up against the NFL’s other starting quarterbacks this fall.
NFL QBs ranked by Total QBR after Week 7
- Josh Allen: 77.6
- Lamar Jackson: 74.3
- Jayden Daniels: 73.9
- Joe Burrow: 72.6
- Kyler Murray: 68.7
- Russell Wilson: 66.4
- Derek Carr: 65.4
- Trevor Lawrence: 63.1
- Jalen Hurts: 63.1
- Patrick Mahomes: 61.2
- Geno Smith: 61.1
- Brock Purdy: 60.9
- C.J. Stroud: 60.2
- Kirk Cousins: 59.4
- Jordan Love: 58.8
- Jared Goff: 57.3
- Baker Mayfield: 56.7
- Andy Dalton: 56.2
- Sam Darnold: 54.4
- Matthew Stafford: 54.4
- Justin Herbert: 52.6
- Bo Nix: 49.2
- Dak Prescott: 48.9
- Aaron Rodgers; 48.9
- Daniel Jones: 47.0
- Caleb Williams: 46.4
- Mason Rudolph: 46.1
- Anthony Richardson: 42.9
- Drake Maye: 34.6
- Gardner Minshew: 33.6
- Tua Tagovailoa: 27.7
- Deshaun Watson: 23.5
Nix and the Broncos will host the Carolina Panthers in Week 8.
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