Week 4 (2020) Passing Stats: The HOF QBs Shine

by Chase Stuart on October 7, 2020

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Pick a random week since 2012, and you wouldn’t be surprised to see Aaron Rodgers, Russell Wilson, and Tom Brady as the top 3 quarterbacks, would you? Add in another great game from Drew Brees, and it was an excellent week for the quartet of future Hall of Famers. Perhaps the four best quarterbacks of the last decade combined to throw for 1,302 yards and 13 touchdowns in week 4, with three interceptions and five sacks on 143 dropbacks. They picked up 69 first downs, for a whopping 48.2% passing first down rate. Meanwhile, in the city that never sleeps, the two quarterbacks selected early in the first round in the 2018 and 2019 Drafts were the two worst passers of the week.

The full week 4 passing data below:

Rk	Passer	Team	Opp	Result	Att	Yd	TD	INT	1D	Sk	Yd	FL	AdjY/DB	DB	VALUE
1	Aaron Rodgers	GNB	ATL	W 30-16	33	327	4	0	17	1	12	0	15.06	34	190
2	Russell Wilson	SEA	MIA	W 31-23	34	360	2	1	17	2	17	0	13.14	36	132
3	Tom Brady	TAM	LAC	W 38-31	46	369	5	1	20	0	0	0	12.15	46	123
4	Dak Prescott	DAL	CLE	L 38-49	58	502	4	1	29	3	21	1	11.33	61	113
5	Kirk Cousins	MIN	HOU	W 31-23	22	260	1	0	10	3	12	0	13.96	25	112
6	Justin Herbert	LAC	TAM	L 31-38	25	290	3	1	9	2	12	0	12.85	27	91
7	Josh Allen	BUF	LVR	W 30-23	34	288	2	0	14	1	14	0	12.06	35	91
8	Drew Brees	NOR	DET	W 35-29	25	246	2	1	15	2	18	0	12.59	27	84
9	Deshaun Watson	HOU	MIN	L 23-31	33	300	2	0	12	3	10	0	11.67	36	79
10	Patrick Mahomes	KAN	NWE	W 26-10	29	236	2	0	12	1	7	0	11.97	30	75
11	Teddy Bridgewater	CAR	ARI	W 31-21	37	276	2	1	17	0	0	0	10.97	37	56
12	Gardner Minshew II	JAX	CIN	L 25-33	40	351	2	1	16	3	11	0	10.72	43	54
13	Joe Burrow	CIN	JAX	W 33-25	36	300	1	1	15	1	0	0	10.84	37	51
14	Jarvis Landry	CLE	DAL	W 49-38	1	37	1	0	1	0	0	0	57.00	1	48
15	Lamar Jackson	BAL	WAS	W 31-17	21	193	2	1	9	1	2	0	11.32	22	41
16	C.J. Beathard	SFO	PHI	L 20-25	19	138	0	0	9	1	9	0	10.50	20	21
17	Sam Koch	BAL	WAS	W 31-17	1	15	0	0	1	0	0	0	24.00	1	15
18	Baker Mayfield	CLE	DAL	W 49-38	30	165	2	0	13	2	1	0	9.47	32	0
19	Joe Flacco	NYJ	DEN	L 28-37	2	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	8.00	2	-3
20	Philip Rivers	IND	CHI	W 19-11	29	190	1	0	9	1	4	0	9.27	30	-6
21	Derek Carr	LVR	BUF	L 23-30	44	311	2	0	16	2	14	1	8.98	46	-23
22	Matt Ryan	ATL	GNB	L 16-30	39	285	0	0	15	4	36	0	8.93	43	-23
23	Dwayne Haskins	WAS	BAL	L 17-31	45	314	0	0	17	3	40	0	8.90	48	-27
24	Matthew Stafford	DET	NOR	L 29-35	31	206	3	1	12	3	15	0	8.44	34	-35
25	Robert Griffin III	BAL	WAS	W 31-17	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	-45.00	1	-54
26	Jared Goff	LAR	NYG	W 17-9	32	200	1	0	8	2	18	0	7.79	34	-57
27	Ryan Fitzpatrick	MIA	SEA	L 23-31	45	315	0	2	17	1	3	0	8.15	46	-61
28	Carson Wentz	PHI	SFO	W 25-20	28	193	1	1	9	3	19	0	7.13	31	-72
29	Brett Rypien	DEN	NYJ	W 37-28	31	242	2	3	10	0	0	0	7.06	31	-74
30	Kyler Murray	ARI	CAR	L 21-31	31	133	3	0	11	1	0	1	6.72	32	-88
31	Nick Foles	CHI	IND	L 11-19	42	249	1	1	12	1	8	0	7.33	43	-92
32	Jarrett Stidham	NWE	KAN	L 10-26	13	60	1	2	4	0	0	0	1.31	13	-106
33	Nick Mullens	SFO	PHI	L 20-25	26	200	1	2	11	4	28	1	4.73	30	-142
34	Brian Hoyer	NWE	KAN	L 10-26	24	130	0	1	8	2	18	1	3.42	26	-157
35	Daniel Jones	NYG	LAR	L 9-17	36	190	0	1	11	5	31	0	5.20	41	-175
36	Sam Darnold	NYJ	DEN	L 28-37	42	230	0	0	11	6	54	0	5.73	48	-179
	Total	Total			1065	8117	53	24	417	64	434	5	9.47	1129	0

In the NFL, the team that wins the passing battle usually wins the game, as long as you are measuring passing correctly. In terms of adjusted yards per dropback, the better team nearly ran the table in week four. The big exception was in Dallas, where the Cleveland Browns were powered by just the 8th 300+ yard rushing game over the last ten seasons. In Cincinnati, Joe Burrow and Gardner Minshew had nearly identical stats, but the Bengals came away with an easy win because of the rushing game edge, too: Excluding quarterback runs, Jacksonville ran 18 times for only 80 yards, while Cincinnati rushed 30 times for 194 yards.

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