In the summer we discussed Jake Browning’s potential improvement in the context of ESPN’s QBR rating for quarterbacks. See that here. ESPN’s proprietary indicator has a ceiling of 100. Against Stanford Browning’s QBR was 97.4 and an adjusted 98.2. He was 15 for 21 for 210 yards and 3 TDs. After 5 games, Browning has
ESPN a few years ago came up with “QBR” which is a better statistic for evaluating quarterbacks than passer rating. It takes into account far more things (fumbles, sacks, running, quality of defense) than passer rating. ESPN’s QBR stats only go back about 10 years but we can use these stats to evaluate Browning’s first