Denver Broncos rookie quarterback Bo Nix posted a Total QBR rating of 78.4 in a 28-14 victory over the Carolina Panthers last week, bringing his season-long Total QBR average to 53.6.
That’s an improvement from last week’s rating (49.2), but Nix has dropped from being ranked No. 22 last week down to No. 23 this week.
Nix’s traditional passer rating this season is 81.4, which ranks 25th.
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 8
- Jameis Winston: 83.1
- Joe Burrow: 75.4
- Lamar Jackson: 74.9
- Kyler Murray: 74.4
- Josh Allen: 73.9
- Joe Flacco: 73.7
- Jayden Daniels: 72.7
- Jalen Hurts: 69.3
- Patrick Mahomes: 67.0
- Trevor Lawrence: 65.7
- Derek Carr: 64.8
- Brock Purdy: 62.4
- Kirk Cousins: 61.2
- Matthew Stafford: 61.1
- C.J. Stroud: 60.2
- Sam Darnold: 58.7
- Geno Smith: 57.3
- Justin Herbert: 56.0
- Baker Mayfield: 55.8
- Jordan Love: 55.6
- Andy Dalton: 54.9
- Russell Wilson: 54.3
- Bo Nix: 53.6
- Jared Goff: 52.8
- Aaron Rodgers: 50.4
- Drake Maye: 48.6
- Dak Prescott: 47.5
- Caleb Williams: 45.8
- Daniel Jones: 44.6
- Gardner Minshew: 38.1
- Tua Tagovailoa: 36.0
- Will Levis: 26.0
Nix and the Broncos will travel to face the Baltimore Ravens in Week 9.
