C.J. Stroud might not have thrown a touchdown on “Monday Night Football,” but he regained his mojo and secured a win.
Houston Texans care more about the latter than the numbers attached to No. 7’s stat sheet.
The second-year passer posted a Total QBR rating of 51.6 in the team’s 34-10 win over the Dallas Cowboys at AT&T Stadium, bringing his season-long Total QBR average to 54.4.
That’s a slight improvement from last week’s rating (54.1), but Stroud’s ranking dropped two spots to No. 21 among starting QBs.
Stroud’s traditional passer rating this season is 88.0, which ranks 24th overall.
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 considers 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 this fall.
NFL QBs ranked by Total QBR after Week 11
- Joe Burrow: 76.1
- Lamar Jackson: 75.0
- Kyler Murray: 74.9
- Josh Allen: 72.7
- Jayden Daniels: 67.6
- Brock Purdy: 67.4
- Patrick Mahomes: 67.0
- Derek Carr: 62.1
- Jalen Hurts: 62.0
- Matthew Stafford: 60.6
- Tua Tagovailoa: 60.4
- Drake Maye: 59.6
- Jared Goff: 59.4
- Jordan Love: 59.3
- Kirk Cousins: 56.3
- Justin Herbert: 56.3
- Baker Mayfield: 56.2
- Sam Darnold: 55.7
- Geno Smith: 55.4
- Bo Nix: 55.3
- C.J. Stroud: 54.4
- Aaron Rodgers: 51.0
- Jameis Winston: 61.0
- Russell Wilson: 59.5
- Anthony Richardson: 45.9
- Caleb Williams: 44.5
- Gardner Minshew: 39.1
- Will Levis: 32.6
- Bryce Young: 32.5
- Cooper Rush: 28.4
- Mac Jones: 17.7
- Drew Lock: 8.7
Stroud and the Texans return home to face off against the Tennessee Titans in Week 12.