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Jon Heath

All 32 NFL QBs (including Jarrett Stidham) ranked by Total QBR entering Week 18

The Denver Broncos benched quarterback Russell Wilson last week and turned the offense over to Jarrett Stidham.

Wilson ended his 2023 campaign ranked 21st among qualifying* quarterbacks with a 50.7 Total QBR rating (*ESPN’s season-long list only includes QBs with 20 action plays per team game).

ESPN’s Total QBR “values the quarterback on all play types on a 0-100 scale,” taking into account factors such as the defense faced, the QB’s actual contribution to a play and efficiency.

To see where Stidham stacks up, we’ve listed all 32 starting quarterbacks below, ranked in order of their Total QBR rating.

Stidham’s rating (31.3) is considerably lower than Wilson’s and it ranks 30th among current starters, but he only has a one-game sample size. In fact, multiple current starters listed below have a very small sample size, which skews the ratings.

With that caveat in mind, here’s a quick look at all 32 (projected) starting quarterbacks going into the final week of the 2023 NFL season.

1
Brock Purdy: 72.7

(Eric Hartline-USA TODAY Sports)

2
Mason Rudolph: 71.8

(Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports)

3
Dak Prescott: 70.5

(Tim Heitman-USA TODAY Sports)

4
Josh Allen: 68.2

(Brian Fluharty-USA TODAY Sports)

5
Lamar Jackson: 65.3

(Jessica Rapfogel-USA TODAY Sports)

6
Matthew Stafford: 64.0

(Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports)

7
Patrick Mahomes: 62.5

(Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports)

8
Jalen Hurts: 61.5

(Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports)

9
Jordan Love: 61.5

(Dan Powers-USA TODAY Sports)

10
Gardner Minshew: 60.3

(Marc Lebryk-USA TODAY Sports)

11
Geno Smith: 59.0

(Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports)

12
Tua Tagovailoa: 58.8

(Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports)

13
Jake Browning: 58.5

(Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images)

14
Trevor Lawrence: 58.2

(Tim Heitman-USA TODAY Sports)

15
Jared Goff: 57.9

(Raj Mehta-USA TODAY Sports)

16
Baker Mayfield: 55.5

(Mark Konezny-USA TODAY Sports)

17
C.J. Stroud: 54.4

(Katie Stratman-USA TODAY Sports)

18
Derek Carr: 53.9

(Matthew Hinton-USA TODAY Sports)

19
Taylor Heinicke: 48.2

(John David Mercer-USA TODAY Sports)

20
Tyrod Taylor: 47.9

(Eric Hartline-USA TODAY Sports)

21
Joe Flacco: 47.8

(Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

22
Kyler Murray: 47.6

(Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

23
Justin Fields: 46.3

(Jeffrey Becker-USA TODAY Sports)

24
Sam Howell: 42.2

(Brad Mills-USA TODAY Sports)

25
Easton Stick: 41.7

(Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports)

26
Aidan O’Connell: 36.9

(Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports)

27
Will Levis: 34.1

(Corey Perrine/Florida Times-Union, via USA TODAY Network)

28
Bailey Zappe: 33.5

(Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports)

29
Bryce Young: 33.4

(Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports)

30
Jarrett Stidham: 31.3

(Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports)

31
Zach Wilson: 30.2

(Candice Ward-USA TODAY Sports)

32
Jaren Hall: 4.9

(Jeffrey Becker-USA TODAY Sports)
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