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Week 1 QBR Leaders

Updated: October 6, 2011, 2:09 PM ET
By ESPN Stats & Information

Total QBR is a quarterback rating that takes into account all of a quarterback's contributions (passing, rushing, sacks, fumbles, penalties) to his team's scoring and winning and summarizes them into one number on a 0-100 scale, on which 50 is average.

Total QBR

ESPN introduces Total QBR:

For a game, the number can be interpreted as a percentile, so a score of 80 means a quarterback's performance was better than 80 percent of all quarterbacks' games. For more about the methodology and statistics behind the Total QBR, see here.

Reigning NFL MVP (and 2010 regular-season Total QBR leader) Tom Brady had a stellar performance on "Monday Night Football" in Miami, throwing for 517 yards and four touchdowns on his way to a Total QBR of 88.6. While that wasn't enough to unseat Aaron Rodgers for the highest Total QBR in Week 1 (91.1), Brady's efficiency over so many plays resulted in his finishing with 13.2 total clutch-weighted EPA (expected points added), by far the highest total of the week.

Lost in Brady's greatness was a solid performance by Dolphins QB Chad Henne, who put up a Total QBR of 70.7 after finishing 27th in the NFL with a 41.4 rating last season. Monday's later game did not produce anywhere near the same quality of QB play, with both Oakland's Jason Campbell and Denver's Kyle Orton finishing with ratings that placed them toward the bottom of the Week 1 rankings.

Below is the full breakdown of Total QBR and its component statistics for all 33 NFL QBs with a minimum of 10 action plays in Week 1.

Results shown here may differ from those published earlier on ESPN.com. These are due to small errors in evaluating home/road differences that were corrected prior to Week 4. ESPN regrets the error.

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Week 1 Total QBR Leaders

Rank Name Pass EPA Rush EPA Sack EPA Pen. EPA Total EPA Action Plays Clutch Weight Avg Total QBR
1 Aaron Rodgers 10.8 -0.9 -1.2 -0.1 8.6 44 0.8 91.1
2 Tom Brady 14.2 -0.1 -0.5 -0.4 13.2 59 1.0 88.6
3 Ryan Fitzpatrick 6.0 -0.6 -0.5 -0.3 4.6 33 0.7 86.4
4 Matthew Stafford 8.1 -0.7 0.0 0.1 7.6 41 1.1 81.4
5 Joe Flacco 3.7 0.0 -0.2 -0.3 3.3 34 0.6 78.6
6 Rex Grossman 10.1 0.0 -3.4 -0.5 6.2 40 1.1 75.9
7 Cam Newton 16.3 -1.8 -3.7 0.1 10.8 56 1.3 75.7
8 Chad Henne 7.7 1.7 -2.1 -0.3 6.9 64 0.8 72.7
9 Drew Brees 6.1 -0.1 -2.0 0.5 4.5 56 0.6 71.6
10 Alex Smith 2.6 0.2 0.0 0.3 3.1 31 0.8 71.2
11 Matt Schaub 2.5 -0.3 -0.1 0.0 2.0 31 0.5 71.0
12 Michael Vick 4.4 5.8 -3.5 -1.0 5.6 51 1.0 68.1
13 Jay Cutler 4.6 0.0 -1.9 0.1 2.8 40 0.7 62.9
14 Matt Hasselbeck 4.7 0.8 -3.0 1.2 3.7 41 1.0 62.1
15 Tony Romo 9.0 -0.4 -3.1 -1.0 4.6 48 1.1 61.1
16 Philip Rivers 5.8 -0.3 -1.3 0.7 4.7 60 1.2 52.8
17 Kevin Kolb 7.6 -1.3 -3.5 -0.1 2.6 38 1.1 52.0
18 Luke McCown 3.9 -0.5 -1.7 -0.1 1.6 32 0.8 51.2
19 Eli Manning 3.3 0.4 -1.4 -0.9 1.5 39 1.0 44.9
20 Kyle Orton 4.3 1.7 -7.0 1.9 1.0 63 1.1 37.2
21 Matt Ryan 2.6 0.0 -2.1 -0.2 0.2 58 0.6 35.1
22 Josh Freeman 2.4 0.3 -2.5 0.1 0.2 51 0.7 34.9
23 Bruce Gradkowski 1.7 -0.2 -1.4 -0.2 0.0 16 1.3 32.7
24 Sam Bradford 2.2 -2.4 -2.2 2.0 -0.5 40 1.0 29.8
25 Andy Dalton 2.8 0.0 -3.9 0.5 -0.6 22 1.3 27.0
26 Colt McCoy -1.5 1.1 -1.4 0.1 -1.7 50 1.3 26.1
27 Jason Campbell 0.5 2.1 -3.3 -0.8 -1.5 37 1.0 22.8
28 Donovan McNabb -3.7 3.4 -1.1 -0.2 -1.5 22 1.4 20.7
29 Mark Sanchez 4.2 -2.7 -5.2 0.2 -3.5 50 1.2 19.0
30 Tarvaris Jackson 3.6 -0.5 -5.8 0.0 -2.8 51 0.8 16.9
31 Matt Cassel -0.8 0.0 -1.4 0.0 -2.3 38 0.6 12.1
32 Ben Roethlisberger 0.3 0.4 -3.0 -0.5 -2.8 49 0.5 9.9
33 Kerry Collins 0.9 -0.8 -4.1 -0.3 -4.3 42 0.4 2.3
Pass EPA: Clutch-weighted expected points added by the QB through pass attempts.
Run EPA: Clutch-weighted expected points added by the QB through scrambles, designed rushes and fumbles/fumble returns on running plays.
Sack EPA: Clutch-weighted expected points added by the QB through sacks and fumbles/fumble returns on passing plays.
Penalty EPA: Clutch-weighted expected points added by the QB on penalties.
Total EPA: Total clutch-weighted expected points added by the QB.
Action Plays: Plays on which quarterback has a non-zero expected points contribution. Includes most plays that are not handoffs.
Clutch Wt Avg: Average clutch weight on QB action plays. Smaller than 1 means QB was in relatively fewer clutch situations, greater than 1 means he was in more.
Total QBR: Total Quarterback Rating, which values quarterback on all play types on a 0 to 100 scale.

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