Week 4 Passing Stats: Goff, Trubisky, Blaze New Trails

by Chase Stuart on October 2, 2018

As a rookie, Jared Goff threw 5 touchdowns on 205 pass attempts. In week 4, he threw 5 touchdowns on 33 pass attempts.
As, Mitch Trubisky threw 7 touchdowns on 330 pass attempts. In week 4, he threw 6 touchdowns on 26 attempts.

Both joined the exclusive 17/17 club of 17 Adjusted Yards per Attempt on 17 passes. ^[1]While I prefer using ANY/A to AY/A, the PFR Game Finder only has AY/A as a default search option, hence my use of AY/A there., making a remarkable three such performances in September 2018.

Meanwhile, there is Josh Allen, who became just the 19th quarterback since 2008 to finish a game with a negative ANY/A on at least 30 pass attempts.

And then there’s Matt Ryan, who for the second straight week found himself on the losing side of a passing shootout. He became just the 8th quarterback since the merger to average 11.0 ANY/A or better, throw for 400 passing yards, and lose. The Falcons join the 1966 Giants as the only teams to score 36+ points in consecutive regular season games… and lose both games.

Note that it was a terrible week for AFC East quarterbacks not named Tom Brady, and actually not even a good week for Brady (because week 4 was absurd, Brady’s 6.97 ANY/A average was actually below-average). Below are the passing stats for week 4:

Rk	Quarterback	Tm	Opp	Result	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Sk	Yds	ANY/A	VALUE
1	Jared Goff	LAR	MIN	W 38-31	33	465	5	0	1	9	16.35	315
2	Mitch Trubisky	CHI	TAM	W 48-10	26	354	6	0	1	10	17.19	273
3	Matt Ryan	ATL	CIN	L 36-37	39	419	3	0	3	16	11.02	165
4	Matthew Stafford	DET	DAL	L 24-26	30	307	2	0	3	21	9.88	92
5	Blake Bortles	JAX	NYJ	W 31-12	38	388	2	1	2	11	9.3	88
6	Joe Flacco	BAL	PIT	W 26-14	42	363	2	0	2	8	8.98	83
7	Kirk Cousins	MIN	LAR	L 31-38	50	422	3	0	4	30	8.37	69
8	Dak Prescott	DAL	DET	W 26-24	27	255	2	0	3	24	9.03	58
9	Andrew Luck	IND	HOU	L 34-37	62	464	4	0	4	27	7.83	49
10	Brock Osweiler	MIA	NWE	L 7-38	5	35	1	0	0	0	11	20
11	Andy Dalton	CIN	ATL	W 37-36	41	337	3	1	3	29	7.34	11
12	Patrick Mahomes	KAN	DEN	W 27-23	45	304	1	0	1	0	7.04	-2
13	Marcus Mariota	TEN	PHI	W 26-23	43	344	2	1	3	17	7	-4
14	Tom Brady	NWE	MIA	W 38-7	35	274	3	2	0	0	6.97	-4
15	Taysom Hill	NOR	NYG	W 33-18	2	10	0	0	0	0	5	-4
16	Deshaun Watson	HOU	IND	W 37-34	42	375	2	1	7	28	6.98	-5
17	Johnny Hekker	LAR	MIN	W 38-31	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	-7
18	Josh Rosen	ARI	SEA	L 17-20	27	180	1	0	1	9	6.82	-8
19	Derek Carr	OAK	CLE	W 45-42	58	437	4	2	3	11	6.82	-16
20	Drew Brees	NOR	NYG	W 33-18	32	217	0	0	1	8	6.33	-25
21	Philip Rivers	LAC	SFO	W 29-27	39	250	3	1	1	8	6.43	-27
22	Carson Wentz	PHI	TEN	L 23-26	50	348	2	0	4	33	6.57	-28
23	C.J. Beathard	SFO	LAC	L 27-29	37	298	2	2	1	10	6.26	-31
24	Russell Wilson	SEA	ARI	W 20-17	26	172	0	0	2	12	5.71	-39
25	Aaron Rodgers	GNB	BUF	W 22-0	40	298	1	1	2	16	6.12	-41
26	Eli Manning	NYG	NOR	L 18-33	41	255	1	0	3	21	5.77	-58
27	Ryan Fitzpatrick	TAM	CHI	L 10-48	18	126	0	1	2	9	3.6	-70
28	Baker Mayfield	CLE	OAK	L 42-45	41	295	2	2	2	16	5.33	-76
29	Case Keenum	DEN	KAN	L 23-27	33	245	0	1	4	19	4.89	-81
30	Jameis Winston	TAM	CHI	L 10-48	20	145	1	2	2	11	2.91	-92
31	Sam Darnold	NYJ	JAX	L 12-31	34	167	1	0	3	23	4.43	-98
32	Ben Roethlisberger	PIT	BAL	L 14-26	47	274	1	1	1	9	5	-100
33	Ryan Tannehill	MIA	NWE	L 7-38	20	100	0	1	2	19	1.64	-120
34	Josh Allen	BUF	GNB	L 0-22	33	151	0	2	7	64	-0.08	-287
	Total				1157	9074	60	22	78	528	7.09	0

There were 17 quarterbacks with 295 or more passing yards this week, part of a historic week of passing.

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↑1	While I prefer using ANY/A to AY/A, the PFR Game Finder only has AY/A as a default search option, hence my use of AY/A there.

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