In seeking to quantify a quarterback’s manufacturing and potency in one handy stat, ESPN created QBR — a proprietary metric that goals to seize the whole lot a quarterback does (passing, speeding, sacks taken, turnovers, and so forth.) in the process the sport. It isn’t easiest, in any respect. But it supplies us with an information level for evaluating the NFL’s beginning quarterbacks.
Now that we’ve were given that out of the means, let’s percentage some encouraging information referring to Justin Fields’ building thru the lens of QBR. Because Fields’ 76.5 QBR being the fourth perfect amongst NFL quarterbacks in Week 5 (h/t Bill Zimmerman) is value celebrating. Get your birthday party favors able. We’re having a ball to kick off sport week after seeing Fields take reliable ahead steps. And that this stat and ESPN’s different metrics ascertain the expansion heat my center.
The most effective quarterbacks who had a greater QBR than Fields’ 76.5 in Week 5: Josh Allen (86.1), Jacoby Brissett (90.8), and Kirk Cousins (77.6). Fields’ QBR quantity used to be upper than Aaron Rodgers (53.2), Tom Brady (46.2), Justin Herbert (40.6), and Trevor Lawrence (32.0). But possibly extra essential than that, Fields’ 76.5 QBR is a 42.2-point growth from his Week 4 appearing in opposition to the Giants. And it represents a 39.5-point building up from his 37.0 season-long QBR.
But it wasn’t simply QBR appearing that Fields used to be a baller on Sunday.
Per ESPN’s information for Week 5, Fields…
- Was the league’s maximum snatch speeding quarterback, by means of ESPN’s RUN stat which values “clutch-weighted expected points added through rushing.”
- Earned a three.5 PAA that used to be tied for the fourth-best in Week 5. PAA accounts for issues a QB contributes, accounting for QBR and what kind of they play, above the degree of a mean quarterback.”
- Posted a 6.7 EPA that used to be additionally 5th perfect amongst QBs this week. EPA is the “total expected points added with low leverage plays, according to ESPN Win Probability model, down-weighted.”
- Owned the 4th perfect RAW quantity amongst quarterbacks. RAW a.okay.a. Raw Quarterback Rating, “values quarterback on all play types on a 0-100 scale” and isn’t adjusted for opposing defenses confronted.
We knew Fields had an afternoon on Sunday. That Week 5 line (15/21 (71.4%), 208 yards, 1 TD, 0 INT, 9.9 yards/strive, 118.8 passer score … plus 8 rushes and 47 yards) handed a host of essential exams. It handed our eye check for growth. The conventional metrics endure out that Fields had a gorgeous darn excellent sport. And the complicated numbers recommend Fields aced the check the Vikings threw at him. This is the more or less stuff we’ve been short of to peer.
All of this to mention that now not most effective used to be Fields legitimately nice on Sunday, he used to be much better than he have been all season. We notice they gained’t all be oil portray for a creating quarterback. And we all know that expansion isn’t linear. But we additionally know to not take as a right when a ahead step occurs earlier than our very eyes.