Rafael Zamorano
CloseSince 2007 he has been an NFL editor and columnist for ESPN’s digital platforms. He previously wrote for sites such as KFFL.com and SportsNet.com.mx. follow him for Twitter.3 the ones, 2024, 11:37 PM ET
Five quarterbacks up and five down after the seventeenth day of the 2023 regular season
If we take away anything from Week 17 of the NFL regular season, in terms of quarterbacks, it is that perhaps it put an end to the race for the Most Valuable Player, with the only passer above 90 points in Total QBR for the last weekend.
As for the rest of the league, it’s worth noting that no one was in single digits, although there were several quarterbacks with miserable performances for the penultimate date of the regular season.
Lamar Jackson could have clinched his second MVP award, while Bryce Young has some thinking Carolina made a mistake in the draft. ESPN
FIVE ON THE RISE
The Ravens quarterback could have named the NFL’s Most Valuable Player award for the 2023 campaign with his five touchdown passes without interceptions in Baltimore’s beating of Miami, good for a Total QBR of 95.9 that he led, for a good stretch, to all the quarterbacks in the league. Jackson completed 18 of 21 pass attempts for 321 yards, was sacked just once, and posted a perfect 0.0 pass accuracy rate, best in the NFL. The average of 15.3 yards per pass attempt with which he led the rest of the quarterbacks is outrageous, and his 14 first attempts through the air were the fourth most. The second most prolific passer of the day didn’t even need to finish the game, making way for his backup, Tyler Huntley, to also throw a touchdown pass against the Dolphins. It was one of the best performances by any quarterback all year, without a doubt.
Love shined again with three touchdown passes and a fourth score of the game, on the ground, as part of a Sunday that included 24 of 33 completions for 256 yards and was devoid of sacks against. A Total QBR of 82.7 left Love sixth in the NFL, and he ranked ninth in completion rate at 72.7 percent. Love also stood out with 16 first downs through the air, the second most for the day.
The quarterback for the NFC in the next Pro Bowl, as revealed by the league, Purdy scored a healthy Total QBR of 88.2 that was the fourth highest in the league, thanks to his 22 completions of 28 pass attempts for 230 yards with two touchdowns without interceptions. Purdy also ranked fourth with a 78.6 percent completion rate, and was fifth in the completions over expectation metric at 9.9. Add to that the fact that he was ninth with just 11.1 percent of his passes being inaccurate, and his 14 first aerial attempts were the fourth-highest total in the NFL.
It’s been a very challenging season indeed for Murray who spent most of it rehabbing from an injury last year, but a Total QBR of 84.4, fifth best last weekend, should help his confidence heading into the season. next season, after his head coach, Jonathan Gannon, declared that he hoped to have him as a starter for 2024. Murray connected on 80.6 percent of his deliveries, 25 of 31, for the second best rate in the league, in addition to collecting a 7.8 percent of completed passes above expectations placed him sixth. Additionally, he was third best in inaccurate pass percentage, with just 3.2, and second with 16 first attempts through the air, tying Love.
Listen, maybe a Total QBR of 70.9 that ranked No. 11 in the league doesn’t say much, but we created these rankings based on several metrics, not just one. Rudolph was sixth in completion percentage at 75.0 percent, third in completion percentage above expectation at 17.2 percent, second in average yards per pass attempt at 11.4, and fifth in passing rate. imprecise, with only 4.8 percent. Also, he was the ninth most prolific passer of the day, with his 274 passing yards, achieved with 18 completions of the 24 he attempted. He was one of the best outings for any Pittsburgh quarterback in 2023.
FIVE DOWN
Against all odds, the Falcons are still alive in the playoff race, and Heinicke will risk what is possibly his future with the franchise, and that of head coach Arthur Smith, on a visit to New Orleans, if he remains the starter. . Heinicke has only won one of the four games he has started for Atlanta this year, so the prognosis isn’t necessarily encouraging. In Week 17, he completed 10 of 29 passes for 163 yards with one touchdown and three interceptions, recording just four first downs through the air. No one completed a lower percentage of passes than his 34.5, and no one scored lower in the pass completion rate metric than an implausible negative -27.9 percent. Likewise, he was the worst passer in the entire league in inaccurate pass rate, with 42.9, and averaged just 5.6 yards per pass attempt to finish second to last on the day. After such a performance, he surprises with a Total QBR of 39.2 that placed him No. 22 in the NFL. His replacement, Desmond Ridder, came in to throw an interception almost immediately.
After announcing he was benching and naming Jacoby Brissett the starter, the Commanders had to back off and give the ball back to the North Carolina product thanks to Brissett’s hamstring injury. That led to a 21.7 Total QBR output, comprised of 17-of-28 completions for 169 yards with one touchdown and two interceptions, and one carry for -1 yard. The eighth-worst completion rate belonged to Howell, at 60.7 percent, and he also ranked eighth-worst in average yards per pass attempt, at 6.0. Among starters, he was the quarterback with the sixth-fewest passing yards, and his first six passing attempts were the fifth-fewest total.
Young led an offense unable to score a single point in the contemporary NFL, quite an achievement, in Week 17, a game marked by the circulation of a video of Panthers owner David Tepper throwing a drink at opposing fans after what appears to be the interception of the first overall pick of the last draft. The Alabama product completed 19 of 32 attempts for 112 yards with no touchdowns, and was sacked six times. With the lowest Total QBR of the day, 12.1, Young also posted the seventh-lowest completion rate, and the fifth-lowest completion rate over expectation, thanks to a negative -6.4 percent. The third-fewest starting quarterback in passing yards, Young didn’t do much better in first downs through the air, with just five, and was second-to-last with a 25.8 in his passing accuracy rate. By all accounts, he was the worst passer in the entire NFL with just 3.5 yards per pass attempt, and he ran once for 2 yards.
Any time you throw three interceptions without a touchdown, you’re a natural candidate to be on the wrong side of our weekly list, and that was the case for Zappe last week. With 16 of 26 attempts for 209 yards and three sacks in tow, his 61.5 percent was the ninth-worst completion percentage, accompanied by a 20.8 percent inaccurate pass rate to leave him the eighth-highest, Zappe took over a Total QBR of 26.7 which seems benign, leaving it as the seventh worst of Week 17.
Hall was blunt: “I would have benched myself, too.” That’s what the rookie said after throwing five of 10 attempts for 67 yards with no touchdowns, with one interception, and scoring a microscopic Total QBR of 1.1 that would have been last on the day, had he qualified with a minimum of attempts. happens. Not surprisingly, Hall was removed from the game before the game was over, but not before being sacked three times and recording only three first downs through the air, and a lost fumble.
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