Yesterday, we looked at the best (and worst) regular season performances, as measured by Total Adjusted Yards per Play and its many derivatives. Today, it’s time to look into total career values. Keep in mind, these figures don’t include the postseason, where many legends cemented or defined their legacies. We will get to that later, I promise.

Because I apparently hate driving traffic to the site, I will not title this anything to do with the greatest or best quarterback. Instead, I want to be honest about the fact that the results below are simply one measurement of career performance and are not meant to be definitive. I do believe it is the best approach I have seen when it comes to using numbers to compare quarterbacks across eras, but it isn’t perfect. When you see “Johnny Unitas,” what you are really seeing is Unitas, throwing to Raymond Berry, John Mackey, Lenny Moore, Jim Mutscheller, and Jimmy Orr, handing off to Alan Ameche, and standing behind Jim Parker and Bob Vogel, while glancing over at Weeb Ewbank and Don Shula standing on the sidelines. When you see “John Elway,” what you are really seeing is Elway throwing to a ragtag group of receivers, playing behind a ho hum offensive line, and under the tutelage of an unimaginative head coach during his prime, before getting basically the opposite of that late in his career. The average reader at Football Perspective has a good grip on both history and stat and should have little trouble contextualizing the numbers presented today.

Methodology

Rather than rehash the same information from yesterday, I will point you to the methodology section from the single season post for most of the basics. There are a few new concepts to discuss:

1. To find career value per play, I sum every season of a player’s VAL and divide by his total plays.
2. To find a player’s career value only in positive seasons, I simply count all seasons with negative VAL as zero before summing.
3. I am revisiting a concept I introduced in 2016 in which I look at career value in terms of standard deviations above or below average. Whereas VAL is defined as a players TAY/P relative to average multiplied by his number of plays, what I am calling Z Value is a player’s TAY/P z-score multiplies by his number of plays. This one may merit an example:

In 2007, the three-year rolling league average TAY/P was 4.99, and the weighted standard deviation was 1.44. Tom Brady posted a TAY/P of 8.34, which was 3.35 above average. Thus, his z-score that season was 2.33 (3.35/1.44). Brady was involved in 636 action plays, so his Z Value is the product of that and his z-score, or 1482. We can do this for every season of his career to find his cumulative Z Value. In Brady’s case, that total is 10427. ^[1]I didn’t include it in the chart, but you can divide his career Z Value by his career plays, you will see his career z-score, which goes into his TAY/P+ metric. If you take the z-score and … Continue reading

I whittled the list down to every player who reach 1500 career action plays, be they actual or inflation-adjusted. That leaves us with 242 players and a much more manageable list than the single season version. ^[2]Johnny Lujack is the odd man out here. He had 948 action plays, and his inflation adjustment bumps him to 1358—still shy of the 1500 play threshold. In his brief career, he had a VAL/P of 2.36, a … Continue reading

The Table

The table below contains every qualifying quarterback since 1932. It is initially sorted by inflation-adjusted VAL, but you can sort and search as is your wont. Read the table thus: Peyton Manning played 266 games and was involved in 10114 action plays. Adjusted for inflation, that’s roughly 9684 plays. He produced 68574 Total Adjusted Yards, giving him 6.78 TAY/P. Over the course of his career, his TAY/P was 1.71 better than average, and his TAY/P index score is 117.8. His Z-Value is 12030, his unadjusted VAL is 17283, and his inflation-adjusted VAL is 16608. When only including positive seasons of VAL, his career total comes to 17798, and when considering only positive seasons of inflation-adjusted VAL, his total is 17089.

Player	G	Ply	AdjPly	TAY	TAY/P	VAL/P	TAYP+	ZVAL	VAL	AdjVAL	PV	PAV
Peyton Manning	266	10114	9684	68574	6.78	1.71	117.8	12030	17283	16608	17798	17089
Drew Brees	287	11469	10907	76289	6.65	1.30	114.0	10732	14918	14165	15432	14663
Tom Brady	301	11755	11169	77400	6.58	1.24	113.3	10427	14565	13867	14756	14048
Dan Marino	242	8929	8719	54008	6.05	1.41	114.3	8496	12569	12314	12677	12418
Otto Graham	126	3031	4276	20289	6.69	2.57	116.8	3402	7792	10914	7792	10914
Aaron Rodgers	197	7707	7268	54076	7.02	1.46	115.9	8152	11240	10604	11476	10835
Joe Montana	192	6161	6376	38412	6.23	1.66	116.7	6872	10208	10493	10208	10493
Fran Tarkenton	246	7625	9188	38880	5.10	1.10	108.7	4438	8400	10222	8962	10882
Steve Young	169	5229	5077	34293	6.56	1.89	119.6	6843	9901	9661	10809	10540
Johnny Unitas	211	5866	7598	31226	5.32	1.10	108.3	3254	6464	8634	7506	9924
Sid Luckman	128	1948	3266	10692	5.49	2.47	115.8	2047	4812	8453	5098	8869
Ken Anderson	192	5270	6163	28023	5.32	1.31	111.3	3966	6885	8342	7411	8912
Norm Van Brocklin	140	2997	4400	17307	5.77	1.91	113.7	2732	5728	8304	5728	8304
Sammy Baugh	165	3319	5455	15400	4.64	1.52	109.4	2078	5029	8269	5583	9123
Dan Fouts	181	6147	6721	33012	5.37	1.15	111.4	4671	7053	7903	7511	8442
Philip Rivers	244	8981	8491	57534	6.41	0.91	109.6	5746	8171	7766	8865	8425
Sonny Jurgensen	218	4683	5712	25821	5.51	1.31	110.5	3286	6145	7498	6436	7904
Roger Staubach	131	3681	4346	19990	5.43	1.67	114.3	3511	6139	7172	6616	7760
Ben Roethlisberger	233	8848	8394	54953	6.21	0.78	108.6	5057	6942	6593	7456	7087
Brett Favre	302	11296	10905	61365	5.43	0.60	106.4	4797	6776	6512	8950	8624
Matt Ryan	205	8311	7822	52573	6.33	0.74	108.3	4592	6162	5800	6407	6029
Len Dawson	211	4251	5076	22682	5.34	1.18	109.3	2638	5004	5760	5656	6624
Tony Romo	150	4821	4593	31301	6.49	1.18	112.3	3968	5670	5423	5815	5559
Y.A. Tittle	204	4821	6672	24375	5.06	0.84	106.3	2015	4029	5287	5872	7739
Cecil Isbell	54	1240	2062	6547	5.28	2.25	115.4	1273	2787	4646	2787	4646
John Brodie	201	4868	6040	24300	4.99	0.81	106.9	2241	3942	4635	4914	5989
Kurt Warner	124	4503	4347	26871	5.97	1.05	110.9	3261	4731	4537	5496	5274
Daryle Lamonica	137	2823	3375	14850	5.26	1.33	109.8	1849	3762	4452	4551	5408
John Elway	234	8540	8345	44162	5.17	0.53	105.6	3165	4554	4449	5619	5498
Joe Namath	140	3983	4767	19253	4.83	0.89	106.4	1709	3565	4213	4696	5598
Jeff Garcia	125	4325	4169	25235	5.83	0.99	110.8	3103	4287	4114	4643	4461
Russell Wilson	144	5532	5168	35946	6.50	0.79	109.2	3381	4357	4069	4357	4069
Bert Jones	102	3030	3524	15414	5.09	1.13	109.3	1880	3427	3979	4124	4894
Jim Kelly	160	5406	5304	29194	5.40	0.74	107.4	2664	4004	3968	4297	4247
Donovan McNabb	167	6400	6174	35729	5.58	0.64	106.5	2771	4067	3959	5075	4923
Patrick Mahomes	46	1926	1800	15394	7.99	2.19	124.6	3156	4216	3940	4233	3956
Trent Green	120	4242	4098	24498	5.78	0.95	110.0	2840	4037	3906	4743	4589
Bart Starr	196	3631	4622	18596	5.12	0.86	106.7	1629	3135	3721	4100	5023
John Hadl	224	5236	6274	24215	4.62	0.60	104.7	1634	3153	3692	5154	6115
Jim Hart	201	5517	6414	24327	4.41	0.47	103.4	1235	2599	3410	3999	4878
Bob Griese	161	4025	4755	18096	4.50	0.70	105.8	1560	2818	3401	3266	3928
Steve McNair	161	5467	5267	29717	5.44	0.64	106.8	2486	3503	3360	4099	3941
Roman Gabriel	183	5204	6318	23327	4.48	0.49	104.1	1409	2558	3127	3814	4635
Bobby Layne	175	4311	6222	18520	4.30	0.47	103.5	999	2041	3096	3230	4724
Boomer Esiason	187	5970	5854	30805	5.16	0.52	105.1	2025	3084	3017	5129	5010
Warren Moon	208	7824	7650	39396	5.04	0.39	103.9	2037	3024	3000	4692	4613
Dutch Clark	64	856	1649	3849	4.50	1.83	113.8	788	1564	2948	1676	3160
Rich Gannon	157	5029	4866	26868	5.34	0.61	106.8	2266	3074	2929	4097	3937
Carson Palmer	182	6948	6624	39932	5.75	0.43	104.9	2252	3005	2877	3931	3756
Troy Aikman	165	5301	5144	27895	5.26	0.55	105.8	2033	2936	2835	4326	4196
Bob Waterfield	91	1692	2580	7155	4.23	1.04	107.0	789	1765	2827	2303	3610
Mark Brunell	191	5543	5326	29318	5.29	0.51	105.5	2023	2836	2715	3495	3356
Jim Everett	158	5437	5326	28213	5.19	0.50	105.2	1884	2714	2662	4006	3916
Terry Bradshaw	168	4652	5494	20882	4.49	0.52	105.0	1542	2436	2621	3721	4206
Charlie Conerly	161	3103	4523	13350	4.30	0.53	103.4	709	1637	2521	3129	4603
Steve Grogan	149	4285	4665	20031	4.67	0.51	104.8	1359	2171	2511	3230	3554
Kirk Cousins	109	4105	3836	26262	6.40	0.65	107.6	2093	2669	2490	3053	2849
Joe Theismann	167	4297	4657	20544	4.78	0.53	105.2	1497	2277	2467	3319	3560
Billy Kilmer	158	3446	4212	15298	4.44	0.55	104.4	1002	1894	2361	2745	3391
Matt Schaub	152	3721	3554	22134	5.95	0.65	106.0	1485	2401	2318	3497	3353
Dak Prescott	69	2698	2524	17986	6.67	0.90	110.4	1869	2441	2278	2441	2278
Cliff Battles	49	768	1617	3200	4.17	1.42	111.4	583	1092	2266	1092	2266
Matthew Stafford	165	6954	6525	41501	5.97	0.34	104.0	1863	2391	2222	3365	3156
Deshaun Watson	54	2229	2083	15216	6.83	1.03	111.6	1722	2294	2143	2294	2143
Craig Morton	207	4406	5102	19280	4.38	0.42	104.0	1166	1860	2083	3242	3799
Mark Rypien	104	2837	2788	15350	5.41	0.73	107.2	1356	2084	2074	2821	2793
Earl Morrall	243	3014	3834	14330	4.75	0.59	105.0	1008	1785	1985	3000	3622
Daunte Culpepper	105	4011	3874	21449	5.35	0.50	105.2	1401	2006	1937	3532	3417
Doug Williams	88	2811	3103	14238	5.07	0.66	106.5	1224	1854	1864	1941	1954
Chad Pennington	89	2813	2729	15598	5.54	0.64	106.7	1251	1786	1725	2563	2480
Bob Monnett	62	846	1588	3245	3.84	1.08	108.7	489	912	1706	932	1743
Frankie Albert	90	1893	2639	9663	5.10	0.67	104.0	506	1263	1703	1651	2253
Frank Ryan	126	2593	3180	12638	4.87	0.58	104.6	792	1500	1688	1955	2327
Jim McMahon	119	3137	3293	15955	5.09	0.52	105.1	1069	1622	1682	1953	2002
Bernie Kosar	126	3818	3772	19296	5.05	0.43	104.0	1009	1647	1676	2765	2771
Arnie Herber	116	1425	2608	4912	3.45	0.68	105.1	485	962	1655	1270	2250
Tommy Thompson	99	1717	2664	6700	3.90	0.70	104.2	476	1208	1644	2083	3062
Ed Danowski	71	1072	1973	3830	3.57	0.78	106.2	440	839	1606	1075	2014
Ken Stabler	184	4192	4797	17837	4.26	0.25	101.0	291	1030	1576	3216	3896
Greg Landry	146	3046	3609	12924	4.24	0.39	103.1	637	1179	1567	2460	3052
Randall Cunningham	161	5548	5436	27555	4.97	0.29	102.8	1017	1582	1552	3234	3149
Andrew Luck	86	3796	3550	23027	6.07	0.44	105.2	1307	1652	1544	2058	1923
Tom Flores	106	1806	2089	9547	5.29	0.71	106.2	749	1277	1478	2139	2479
Milt Plum	129	2710	3531	12491	4.61	0.26	101.6	290	706	1461	2628	3733
Billy Wade	128	2888	3870	13568	4.70	0.36	102.8	539	1038	1392	1834	2464
Charley Johnson	165	3830	4645	16818	4.39	0.28	102.2	571	1090	1342	2061	2522
George Ratterman	92	1502	2102	7718	5.14	0.61	104.2	419	912	1296	1221	1743
Brian Sipe	125	3886	4270	17631	4.54	0.39	104.1	1064	1497	1259	2628	2750
Neil Lomax	108	3737	3891	18335	4.91	0.40	103.8	956	1482	1248	2541	2511
Doug Flutie	92	2596	2497	13572	5.23	0.47	104.9	845	1221	1170	1703	1641
Phil Simms	164	5473	5413	26006	4.75	0.22	102.2	785	1188	1156	2411	2390
Brad Johnson	177	4853	4671	24485	5.05	0.25	102.7	871	1209	1154	2365	2272
Michael Vick	143	4406	4225	23664	5.37	0.26	102.5	737	1162	1126	2450	2341
Marc Bulger	96	3543	3441	18616	5.25	0.32	103.6	840	1146	1116	2549	2478
Danny White	166	3350	3561	15978	4.77	0.31	103.2	705	1038	1104	1697	1793
Jeff Hostetler	147	2861	2778	14488	5.06	0.37	103.8	723	1045	1031	1454	1426
Lamar Jackson	45	1497	1397	9809	6.55	0.72	108.1	804	1085	1010	1372	1279
Neil O'Donnell	125	3703	3584	18375	4.96	0.26	102.8	700	970	935	1520	1464
Don Meredith	104	2768	3330	12742	4.60	0.31	102.6	486	862	923	2289	2722
Elvis Grbac	105	2737	2618	13930	5.09	0.34	103.8	686	929	887	1794	1714
Bobby Thomason	85	1440	2095	5877	4.08	0.46	103.0	288	658	885	1430	2060
Pat Haden	65	1602	1737	6952	4.34	0.40	102.6	277	639	865	1224	1453
Bill Kenney	106	2748	2870	13236	4.82	0.33	103.3	605	895	844	1688	1669
Bill Nelsen	90	2135	2574	9388	4.40	0.33	102.9	417	712	843	2049	2454
Ace Parker	68	1216	1998	4550	3.74	0.45	103.7	296	548	815	862	1386
David Garrard	86	2840	2749	15224	5.36	0.28	102.9	549	786	768	1136	1106
Matt Hasselbeck	209	6055	5829	31449	5.19	0.12	101.3	545	743	750	3094	3004
Bobby Hebert	118	3494	3433	16920	4.84	0.21	101.9	453	719	750	1598	1595
Frank Filchock	76	1154	1982	3799	3.29	0.31	102.6	197	362	662	1270	2221
Jared Goff	69	2713	2536	16352	6.03	0.24	102.5	447	662	624	1534	1439
Jim Zorn	140	3684	4127	15899	4.32	0.20	102.0	501	738	616	2096	2206
Cam Newton	140	5741	5375	33067	5.76	0.11	101.2	442	620	590	2063	1937
Ron Jaworski	188	4737	5121	20943	4.42	0.17	102.0	622	782	568	1786	1790
Derek Carr	110	4241	3960	24984	5.89	0.14	101.5	411	587	548	1764	1645
Tommy Kramer	129	4114	4378	18477	4.49	0.07	100.7	182	288	378	1388	1479
Eli Manning	236	8845	8405	48054	5.43	0.04	100.4	209	374	352	3250	3086
Jake Delhomme	103	3275	3178	16601	5.07	0.10	101.1	248	340	344	1697	1651
Jeff Blake	120	3907	3746	18993	4.86	0.09	101.1	292	367	340	1129	1080
Jeff George	131	4493	4358	21503	4.79	0.07	101.0	314	335	274	2368	2271
Colin Kaepernick	68	2237	2088	12886	5.76	0.13	101.1	171	284	268	801	750
Marcus Mariota	64	2199	2057	12889	5.86	0.12	101.6	231	268	250	610	569
Stan Humphries	88	2810	2720	13480	4.80	0.09	101.0	192	259	249	718	696
Tony Eason	90	1875	1834	8690	4.63	0.13	101.4	174	248	230	1277	1243
Ed Brown	140	2246	3094	9536	4.25	0.03	100.5	68	57	229	1769	2499
Bob Berry	78	1475	1812	5943	4.03	0.10	101.0	99	148	216	907	1124
James Harris	83	1371	1661	5174	3.77	0.08	99.5	-41	109	216	1365	1675
Gary Danielson	100	2301	2517	10400	4.52	0.22	102.5	378	512	201	1127	1132
Ryan Tannehill	116	4315	4029	24751	5.74	0.05	100.4	128	213	192	1735	1616
Ken O'Brien	129	4129	4080	19184	4.65	0.05	100.5	137	198	183	1354	1321
Paul Christman	61	1225	1931	3878	3.17	0.11	100.7	58	137	154	550	817
Josh Allen	44	1745	1629	10330	5.92	0.10	101.2	135	168	153	919	856
Aaron Brooks	93	3560	3441	17321	4.87	0.04	100.5	112	149	140	990	954
Jay Schroeder	118	3258	3212	15144	4.65	0.03	100.3	62	112	117	1194	1180
Vince Ferragamo	75	1769	1926	7653	4.33	-0.10	99.0	-122	-171	107	1171	1434
Tyrod Taylor	72	1878	1756	10870	5.79	0.06	101.1	132	115	105	624	582
Wade Wilson	125	2884	2843	13420	4.65	0.03	99.9	-17	74	99	1886	1873
Byron Leftwich	60	1834	1782	9090	4.96	0.03	100.2	22	64	68	685	668
Baker Mayfield	46	1718	1605	10052	5.85	0.04	100.5	57	69	66	507	474
Bill Munson	107	2304	2777	9250	4.01	0.02	100.5	70	35	59	1174	1405
Jay Fiedler	76	2050	1970	9869	4.81	0.02	100.7	92	44	32	745	714
Jameis Winston	76	2986	2791	17229	5.77	0.01	100.1	30	29	28	488	456
Steve Beuerlein	147	3885	3749	18368	4.73	0.00	99.9	-23	16	21	1531	1478
Erik Kramer	83	2574	2494	12151	4.72	0.01	100.6	104	34	9	1595	1530
Vinny Testaverde	233	7548	7334	35787	4.74	0.01	100.3	137	47	-24	3334	3202
George Blanda	314	4159	5135	18036	4.34	0.02	100.2	60	83	-38	2366	2849
Cotton Davidson	87	1804	2093	8268	4.58	-0.02	100.7	78	-35	-51	957	1107
Andy Dalton	144	5507	5154	31106	5.65	-0.01	100.1	24	-73	-68	1290	1204
Charlie Batch	81	1937	1853	9232	4.77	-0.05	99.2	-97	-104	-93	697	671
Jim Harbaugh	177	4840	4703	22643	4.68	-0.02	99.9	-45	-117	-112	1620	1568
Scott Mitchell	97	2673	2565	12520	4.68	-0.05	99.7	-61	-128	-118	1576	1515
Brian Griese	93	3227	3109	15446	4.79	-0.04	99.8	-38	-135	-137	1508	1447
Norm Snead	178	4835	5876	19898	4.12	-0.02	99.9	-45	-112	-155	2526	3077
Robert Griffin	50	1506	1408	8187	5.44	-0.13	98.0	-202	-189	-171	840	788
Steve Bono	88	1902	1842	8771	4.61	-0.10	99.0	-121	-195	-183	626	611
Steve DeBerg	206	5524	5701	24777	4.49	0.01	100.2	82	46	-187	2028	2019
Chris Miller	98	3279	3215	15217	4.64	-0.07	99.1	-190	-228	-218	912	907
Jim Finks	79	1500	2161	5224	3.48	-0.12	99.1	-95	-173	-266	596	852
Kyle Orton	87	3003	2879	15437	5.14	-0.12	98.6	-280	-360	-362	975	934
Teddy Bridgewater	58	1876	1748	10435	5.56	-0.22	97.3	-338	-409	-383	187	175
Jake Plummer	143	5062	4879	23811	4.70	-0.09	98.8	-399	-434	-387	2471	2402
Steve Spurrier	64	1232	1521	4267	3.46	-0.28	98.0	-168	-347	-411	439	552
Jay Cutler	153	5628	5346	29924	5.32	-0.08	99.0	-384	-459	-411	1636	1571
Tobin Rote	149	3542	5048	13573	3.83	-0.07	99.8	-48	-232	-416	2287	3145
Jason Campbell	90	2928	2815	14739	5.03	-0.17	98.2	-357	-490	-463	258	249
Mike Tomczak	185	2649	2591	11916	4.50	-0.18	98.0	-347	-475	-472	868	845
Gary Hogeboom	76	1526	1512	6542	4.29	-0.29	96.9	-318	-440	-498	333	337
Steve Bartkowski	129	3990	4369	16717	4.19	-0.04	100.3	89	-141	-517	1843	1831
Glenn Dobbs	49	1196	1623	5715	4.78	-0.30	98.2	-142	-358	-518	146	194
Mike Livingston	91	2060	2455	7123	3.46	-0.25	97.3	-366	-516	-529	899	1097
Nick Foles	65	2268	2118	12295	5.42	-0.26	97.0	-449	-597	-556	1220	1140
Dave Krieg	213	6222	6174	28314	4.55	-0.06	99.2	-349	-395	-580	2017	1964
Vince Young	60	1669	1615	7839	4.70	-0.38	96.0	-450	-626	-607	346	333
Gus Frerotte	147	3509	3377	16283	4.64	-0.18	98.2	-428	-629	-619	1146	1100
Joe Ferguson	186	5184	5793	21009	4.05	-0.08	99.1	-321	-393	-656	2646	2923
Chris Chandler	180	4756	4594	21824	4.59	-0.14	98.7	-397	-649	-671	2113	2029
Parker Hall	53	1058	1736	2816	2.66	-0.39	98.2	-125	-411	-675	378	620
Brian Hoyer	68	1693	1582	8898	5.26	-0.43	95.5	-510	-724	-679	295	276
Kordell Stewart	126	3088	2961	13992	4.53	-0.23	97.9	-438	-705	-680	1076	1031
Case Keenum	69	2352	2201	12697	5.40	-0.31	96.3	-586	-729	-680	589	552
Roy Zimmerman	75	882	1519	2160	2.45	-0.56	96.3	-216	-496	-711	445	811
Mitchell Trubisky	51	1878	1756	10068	5.36	-0.42	95.3	-588	-795	-741	355	333
David Woodley	58	1585	1743	6353	4.01	-0.46	95.3	-500	-735	-789	176	172
Bob Lee	77	915	1125	2736	2.99	-0.75	94.3	-351	-688	-836	425	520
Alex Smith	174	6209	5869	33216	5.35	-0.13	98.9	-438	-822	-846	1913	1791
Josh Freeman	62	2365	2245	11819	5.00	-0.40	95.6	-694	-942	-897	808	770
Kent Graham	81	1560	1498	6391	4.10	-0.62	93.6	-671	-972	-940	33	32
Jim Plunkett	157	4404	5186	17040	3.87	-0.18	98.4	-483	-793	-950	822	919
Jack Kemp	122	3488	4057	14674	4.21	-0.22	98.9	-265	-767	-954	969	1125
Gary Cuozzo	82	1372	1663	4704	3.43	-0.57	95.4	-422	-778	-958	310	370
Drew Bledsoe	194	7569	7288	35115	4.64	-0.13	98.6	-702	-1006	-981	1620	1556
Pete Beathard	110	1483	1757	5028	3.39	-0.57	95.8	-416	-845	-1012	104	124
Babe Parilli	189	3745	4580	15710	4.19	-0.15	99.0	-238	-566	-1105	2008	2369
Steve Fuller	90	1404	1499	5101	3.63	-0.75	92.3	-722	-1049	-1122	277	271
Don Majkowski	90	2333	2299	9826	4.21	-0.50	95.1	-755	-1156	-1128	453	449
Richard Todd	119	3490	3839	13680	3.92	-0.35	96.9	-719	-1215	-1155	821	1015
Lynn Dickey	152	3562	3932	14365	4.03	-0.22	98.5	-360	-782	-1205	1471	1441
Eddie LeBaron	134	2007	2852	7463	3.72	-0.40	97.3	-365	-793	-1210	943	1323
Vince Evans	100	1720	1734	6725	3.91	-0.61	93.9	-705	-1048	-1230	439	447
Adrian Burk	70	1102	1588	3056	2.77	-0.80	93.7	-466	-878	-1280	215	305
Mike Pagel	128	1760	1921	6908	3.93	-0.59	94.0	-709	-1043	-1287	68	68
Carson Wentz	68	2929	2737	15534	5.30	-0.47	94.4	-1088	-1387	-1290	704	660
Mark Malone	72	1893	1871	7222	3.82	-0.70	93.4	-834	-1334	-1354	219	213
Eric Hipple	87	1851	1895	7108	3.84	-0.64	93.6	-786	-1181	-1367	153	152
Rodney Peete	103	2860	2783	12030	4.21	-0.51	94.5	-1054	-1445	-1390	482	475
Marc Wilson	126	2432	2406	9572	3.94	-0.60	93.8	-1010	-1462	-1421	418	430
Rex Grossman	54	1735	1673	7340	4.23	-0.86	91.2	-1021	-1491	-1434	4	4
Derek Anderson	77	1857	1788	8111	4.37	-0.82	92.2	-969	-1520	-1456	725	698
Al Dorow	69	1455	1809	5235	3.60	-0.75	94.3	-553	-1089	-1461	232	267
Jim Ninowski	89	1167	1523	4116	3.53	-0.88	93.5	-509	-1029	-1466	170	200
Billy Joe Tolliver	79	1931	1880	7628	3.95	-0.78	91.7	-1063	-1509	-1472	242	232
Bubby Brister	99	2596	2542	10686	4.12	-0.58	93.9	-1052	-1502	-1473	600	579
Lamar McHan	113	1697	2443	5766	3.40	-0.66	94.9	-571	-1125	-1524	575	848
Rudy Bukich	103	1369	1685	4684	3.42	-0.81	93.7	-571	-1109	-1548	959	1132
Tim Couch	62	2004	1921	7948	3.97	-0.82	91.2	-1171	-1635	-1567	17	16
Ryan Fitzpatrick	164	5926	5589	31226	5.27	-0.27	97.4	-1018	-1623	-1575	1419	1326
Bob Avellini	71	1324	1548	3530	2.67	-1.07	90.3	-857	-1421	-1602	0	0
Chad Henne	71	2278	2160	10592	4.65	-0.76	91.9	-1232	-1734	-1640	74	70
Bobby Douglass	91	1768	2187	5317	3.01	-0.77	93.6	-753	-1367	-1673	246	306
Sam Bradford	83	3309	3114	16576	5.01	-0.54	94.3	-1250	-1786	-1693	258	241
Blake Bortles	78	3112	2908	15907	5.11	-0.60	92.7	-1519	-1876	-1750	85	80
Jack Concannon	90	1418	1712	4244	2.99	-1.03	91.3	-826	-1466	-1772	138	166
Archie Manning	151	4422	5125	16266	3.68	-0.29	98.0	-583	-1282	-1944	1760	1829
Tony Banks	97	2829	2710	11314	4.00	-0.75	92.1	-1486	-2112	-2020	17	17
Dave Brown	72	2007	1921	7397	3.69	-1.07	88.6	-1527	-2157	-2065	0	0
Joey Harrington	81	2804	2724	11455	4.09	-0.78	91.8	-1525	-2189	-2123	0	0
Joe Flacco	176	6795	6408	35231	5.18	-0.35	96.0	-1833	-2388	-2234	855	808
Matt Cassel	108	3161	3013	14540	4.60	-0.75	91.5	-1797	-2382	-2246	803	772
Jack Trudeau	67	1844	1821	6207	3.37	-1.26	87.2	-1569	-2316	-2260	0	0
Kerry Collins	198	6972	6712	31443	4.51	-0.35	96.4	-1657	-2423	-2325	1313	1263
Jon Kitna	141	5078	4891	22164	4.36	-0.50	94.6	-1834	-2559	-2458	314	303
Kyle Boller	67	1818	1768	6221	3.42	-1.52	84.8	-1840	-2767	-2683	51	49
Rick Mirer	80	2484	2393	8946	3.60	-1.14	87.9	-2000	-2840	-2736	27	26
Randy Johnson	75	1552	1871	3870	2.49	-1.51	87.9	-1250	-2337	-2779	325	404
Josh McCown	100	3116	2963	13779	4.42	-0.93	89.8	-2109	-2905	-2783	645	603
Frank Tripucka	75	1788	2214	5350	2.99	-1.24	90.3	-1161	-2215	-2816	162	213
Mark Sanchez	79	2658	2519	11399	4.29	-1.14	87.9	-2153	-3037	-2876	0	0
Zeke Bratkowski	132	1621	2130	4810	2.97	-1.32	89.8	-1103	-2144	-2914	294	351
David Carr	94	2839	2757	10726	3.78	-1.08	88.4	-2199	-3070	-2973	208	202
Blaine Gabbert	60	1838	1726	7050	3.84	-1.76	80.5	-2390	-3237	-3047	32	30
Mike Phipps	119	2225	2639	5795	2.60	-1.23	89.7	-1535	-2734	-3207	149	169
Trent Dilfer	130	3683	3539	14146	3.84	-0.94	90.1	-2441	-3456	-3325	272	261
Dan Pastorini	140	3517	4130	10221	2.91	-0.91	92.1	-1864	-3191	-3702	296	315

A few thoughts:

Peyton leads in every career value metric, and by a decent distance. Drew Brees and Brady finish on the medal podium in each version of the career total value. I think this has to do with the three of them being very good, statistically, for a very long time, and over a high volume of plays. Brett Favre and Fran Tarkenton were high volume players as well, but their statistical heights never really reached those of the big three.

Patrick Mahomes ranks 28th in VAL after just three seasons as a starter. His TAY/P+ is easily the highest ever, and he is doing it in the most competitive passing environment. Appreciate this while it is happening, folks.

Joe Montana outstrips Steve Young in career value when accounting for all seasons, but Young usurps the king when getting rid of those pesky Tampa Bay years.

Philip Rivers finds himself in Hall of Fame company, but I doubt he will ever get the call. Ken Anderson at least had an MVP and a Super Bowl appearance, though I think Rivers was the more talented passer.

Jeff Garcia had a weird career.

I will leave further discussion to the FP faithful.