Week 6 was a wellspring of bad quarterbacking. Roughly half the league’s starting quarterbacks slapped together below average performances through the early games Sunday.
Russell Wilson kicked off the week with an exceptionally “Thursday” Thursday night performance in an impotent game against the Kansas City Chiefs. Joe Burrow and Geno Smith each underperformed in a Cincinnati rock fight between two 2022 playoff teams. And Brock Purdy struggled without injured playmakers Christian McCaffrey and Deebo Samuel against the Cleveland Browns’ elite defense.
That’s but a sampling of the truly gross play that inundated the league Sunday.
Who was the worst quarterback this week? Fortunately, we’ve got tools to better understand just how damaging these underwhelming performances were. Using the advanced stat expected points added (EPA) can gauge how much a quarterback brings to the table compared to a typical player.
By comparing each passer’s Week 6 EPA against their 2022 and 2023 combined average, we get a better picture of just how frustrating their days were. And we can find both of those thanks to The Athletic’s Ben Baldwin and his incredibly useful stats sites RBSDM.com and HabitatRing.com. So let’s take a look at who disappointed the most in the sixth game (for most players) of the 2023 season.