Ranking the SEC's top quarterbacks after Week 13
It hasn’t been a stellar season behind center in the SEC. By my count, nearly two-thirds of the teams in the league either dealt with an injury to their starter, or simply replaced their signal-caller because of ineffectiveness at some point during the season.
Here’s a partial list — off the top of my head — of people who have started or played significant time at quarterback for an SEC team at some point this season: Perry Orth, Kyler Murray, Sean White, Lorenzo Nunez, Jake Hubenak, Faton Bauta, Drew Barker, Sean White, Cooper Bateman and … Whoever Plays QB for Vanderbilt.
You get the idea. This ranking below is impressive in the first few spots, but finding 10 good quarterbacks in the SEC is a reach this season.
Here’s how things stand for SEC QBs after 13 weeks of football:
10. PERRY ORTH, SOUTH CAROLINA
Orth replaces Kentucky’s Patrick Towles, last seen announcing a transfer after Mark Stoops glued him to the bench in the loss to Louisville. Orth likely won’t have fond memories of 2015 at South Carolina, but played well enough to allow the Gamecocks to hang with No. 1 Clemson on Saturday. He also finished ninth in the league in QBR, though that may be more of a statement about this list than anything else. Maybe his next head coach will actually care.
Last week: 13-28, 219 yards, 3 TDs, 1 INT
Season: 143-261, 1,929 yards, 12 TDs, 9 INTs
9. TREON HARRIS, FLORIDA
And, we’ve run out of nice things to say about Florida and their anemic offense. Your 2015 SEC East champions, folks!
Last week: 19-38, 134 yards, 0 TD 0 INT; 11 carries, minus-5 yards
Season: 102-190, 1,365 yards, 8 TDs, 4 INTs; 73 carries, 193 yards, 0 TDs
8. BRANDON HARRIS, LSU
The Classic Les Miles Game — it is, to quote popular ’90s group TLC, “damn unpretty.” But it is a win. Harris was awful, but the Tigers won anyway.
Last week: 7-23, 83 yards, 0 TD, 1 INT; 4 carries, 13 yards, 0 TD
Season: 135-254, 1,904 yards, 12 TDs, 5 INTs; 64 carries, 185 yards, 3 TDs
7. GREYSON LAMBERT, GEORGIA
Playing Georgia Tech is almost as much fun as passing a kidney stone. Lambert now gets to finish grad school, and good for him. Do you realize that since UGA inserted him back into the lineup, the transfer hasn’t thrown an interception? I wonder how different their season might have turned out if he had started that Florida game.
Last week: 18-25, 224 yards, 0 TD, 0 INT
Season: 152-236, 1,844 yards, 11 TDs, 2 INTs
6. KYLE ALLEN, TEXAS A&M
It’s rough being on the wrong side of history, right? The stat line from Allen’s night in Death Valley Saturday night was non-descript and got lost in all the Les Miles postgame love. He lost his job but got it back. That’s good enough to make the top six on our list. Yikes.
Last week: 15-28, 161 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT
Season: 160-283, 2,210 yards, 17 TDs, 7 INTs
5. JOSH DOBBS, TENNESSEE
Let’s go ahead and start the hype campaign for 2016, shall we? Tennessee looked great in that final month! If they can only figure out how to finish games next year, they’ll be championship material! (All of that is undoubtedly true, and it’s also exactly what everyone said about the Vols coming into this season.)
Last week: 13-21, 140 yards, 2 TDs, 0 INT; 11 carries, 93 yards, 1 TD
Season: 191-319, 2,125 yards, 15 TDs, 5 INTs; 134 carries, 623 yards, 9 TDs
4. JAKE COKER, ALABAMA
The performance was eerily similar to the one at Mississippi State — Coker didn’t get his team beat, showed some surprising elusiveness running away from defenders, and threw the one pass he needed to throw for his only touchdown. By the way, if Blake Countess catches that interception right before half, this conversation is very different. But he didn’t, and Alabama won, so let’s keep him here.
Last week: 17-26, 179 yards, 1 TD, 0 INT
Season: 204-312, 2,285 yards, 15 TDs, 8 INTs
3. BRANDON ALLEN, ARKANSAS
Let’s all salute the final month of Allen’s season, when he led his team from the ashes of a broken season to road wins over Ole Miss and LSU, saved them in an OT win over Auburn, and lit the whole world on fire in a 1-point loss to Mississippi State. That he closed it out with a hard-fought win over Missouri is fitting. It seems like Allen has been the quarterback at Arkansas since they joined the SEC in 1992, doesn’t it?
Last week: 11-17, 102 yards, 0 TD, 1 INT
Season: 224-344, 3,125 yards, 29 TDs, 7 INTs
2. DAK PRESCOTT, MISSISSIPPI STATE
The announcers in Saturday night’s Egg Bowl said Prescott came back to State for his senior season specifically to play against Ole Miss. He’s had some misses during his career, but a slew of highlights. Saturday night he was on the short end, but what a career.
Last week: 31-42, 254 yards, 2 TDs, 1 INT; 21 carries, 63 yards, 1 TD
Season: 291-435, 3,413 yards, 25 TDs, 4 INTs; 148 carries, 541 yards, 10 TDs
1. CHAD KELLY, OLE MISS
In horse racing terms, Kelly’s closing kick has been something extra special. Ssince an embarrassing loss to Memphis, Kelly has completed nearly 65 percent of his passes for 1,506 yards, and run for an additional 309 yards (over 6 yards per carry). His stats as a runner have been particularly gaudy in the last three games, gaining 110 yards, 81 yards and 74 yards in the three games, with six total touchdowns on the ground. With a big bowl game, he could pass 4,000 yards this season.
Last week: 21-30, 236 yards, 2 TDs, 0 INT; 11 carries, 74 yards, 1 TD
Season: 277-425, 3,740 yards, 27 TDs, 12 INTs; 97 carries, 427 yards, 10 TDs
12 INT’s don’t make a difference?
A lot of those weren’t his fault if you back and watch the film.
Kelly reserved his spot as the best QB in the conference after Saturday. He made some mistakes early in the season but he has been on fire in the second half of the season.
Give me a break! Chad has been the best QB in the SEC and was the best in week 13. He hasn’t thrown a pick in the last 3+ games. And he has just been a fearless runner. He is averaging more yards per carry than Dak and has just as many TDs on the ground on 50 less carries!
He was the best in week 13. His two competitors had horrible games. I’m not sure he was the best for the entire season. I think all 3 can make a pretty good case. Dak threw fewer INT’s, Kelly threw for more yards, and Allen threw for more TD’s, along with a good number of yards. But, you can’t act like 12 INT’s versus 7 and 4 don’t make a little bit of difference.
No but he won 1 more game than Dak and 2 more than Allen. Those are the two most significant numbers in the end which ultimately sway it to Kelly’s favor.
Individual players don’t win games, AirRebel. That’s just silly sportswriter ########. Teams win and lose games.
Eli threw God knows how Many Ints but we were sec co champs and he’s now 2 time Super Bowl mvp and Still throws picks. He’s got that money though!
I still think Dak is the best. Look at the numbers and then imagine if Dak had any semblance of an offensive line and a serviceable running back.
I think you can see that from last year. Still, Kelly is the better pro prospect, and I suspect Allen is, too.
Correction: was the best. New sheriff in town named chad Kelly! Remember that name.
“If they can only figure out how to finish games next year, they’ll be championship material! (All of that is undoubtedly true, and it’s also exactly what everyone said about the Vols coming into this season.)”
Uh, no, they didn’t. I’m sick of hearing that the Vols were a disappointment this year when an 8-4 finish was expected and 9-3 would have been outstanding. Well, turns out we were a few plays away from 12-0, much closer than a year ago when we were still getting blown out by Bama, Ole Miss, and Oklahoma. Very nearly knocked off 2 CFP teams, one of them on the road, and no games lost by more than 7 points.
Kelly has been the best QB all year in the SEC. He beat Bama, LSU, MSU, A&M, and Auburn. He also had a crazy good game against Arkansas. OM only had the ball for 18 mins, while Ark had the ball for 42 mins. OM scored 52 points!!! That’s how good he was in that game.
Next year Kelly is going to almost be unstoppable with all the talent he is going to have around him.
Pass defense for Arkansas ranks 120th in the Country… so not exactly an achievement.
Playing against the same opponents, Kelly and Prescott’s numbers are remarkably similar. Kelly has thrown for more touchdowns, but also more interceptions (12/5 vs 8/2). Prescott has slightly better accuracy, slightly better ground production, but he failed to get to the endzone in two games. Kelly has not been the ‘best’ qb all year, especially when you take into acount the lack of protection for Prescott, though Kelly didn’t have forever, either. I think he will be one of the best in country next season, assuming not too much loss at receiver. Ole Miss will be losing a couple of great receivers, but looks like they have more in the stable than last season. I think he will be a better pure passer than Prescott, but I also think less will be demanded of him as he will finish with better protection and I actually expect OM running game to improve a bit. He definitely looks like a better pro candidate. I am not worried about State at QB or on defense, but all on the Oline, and I hope we don’t lose our junior receivers. Having said that, I think, if Freeze proves he can coach in more than two games, I think OM, with Kelly leading the way, will be the team to beat next year. That’s assuming the defense comes together without the star power.
OM should have run Kelly more. Kelly didn’t start running the ball till the Arkansas game. The only time they let Kelly run the ball before then was really only near the goal line in games.
You’re right about OM’s offense, it should still be really good next year. The defense should still be stout in the front seven. With guys like DE Haynes, DE, Fadol Brown, DE Youngblood, DE Victor Evans and DE Garrald McDowell, at DT, Breeland Speaks is a beast, DJ Jones has had a really good season. Plus OM will get Issac Gross and Herbert Moore back after season ending injuries. LB Gates is going to be a star in the OM defense. He has had a great season. OM will return it’s starting CB in Bridges and Webster. Huskie Tony Conner is coming back. At safety CJ Hampton will return. The good news is OM has plenty of DBs.
MSU needs to fix there OL. They need to get more athletic big guys. The QB Fitzgerald looked good in the few snaps I saw of him.
Definitely, we are living proof of the difference in Oline. I just don’t know. Offensive line as a whole has been a problem, excluding last year a minus the occasional standout. I don’t see Mullen getting rid of OL coach, so maybe he can repeat it again (recruited Day and co, but Beckwith was a walkon). We are pulling down some of the state’s top ol this year and last, but we need a couple of those cornfed midwesterners, a decent conditioning coach (they need to find Mike Grant), and for god’s sake use that juco transfer.
Dobbs > Coker
If Tennessee and Alabama trade quarterbacks, Tennessee drops to 6-6 and Bama goes 12-0.
Yea dobbs had a slightly less percentage passing but hes so much more dangerous running than coker so he should be 4th and coker 4th
Coker 5th*
So Dak Prescott is not the best QB in the SEC? Look at what he was able to accomplish with NO O-LINE. He is second only to Tim Tebow across the board.
Losing to a good Ole Miss team (ugh) does not a bad QB make. Chad is good but he has tools. He didn’t win those games (or lose to Memphis) on his own. There are many instances where Dak won on his own because MSU did not have the tools.
But you all can go on with your theory. Have a good day.
As many receivers as Kelly has, Ole Miss would’ve been lucky to win any conference games without him (State too without Dak). And while Tunsil’s return led to probably the best stretch of rushing success in Freeze’s tenure, I don’t think opposing teams were worried about the run. Kelly would be well over 4000 yards without the run improvement.
Speaking of a run game, there were several State fans I know that claimed Robinson left early b/c he would’ve been 3rd string this year behind Shumpert and Holloway. Was that the consensus feeling among State fans or were they just on some good stuff?
They were stupid. Mullen favors seniors, and Robinson was undoubtedly our best option.
Robinson left because he got a decent draft grade and he knew our line would suck, but he would have produced had he been here.
Too bad Robinson can’t hold on to the ball in the pros
And don’t forget that Chad got a lot of those yards running up the score on schools for the deaf and blind.
Not really. He had big games against Alabama, LSU, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida and Miss State. Only 211, lowest total vs Tenn-Martin. He came up big in big games. As far as Dak not having a running game or O line, look at Ole Miss running game, especially for first 7 games without Tunsil.
Anybody can throw on Arkansas though. Love my Hogs, but our Pass Defense is atrocious.
Nope. He only played the first half in the cupcake games, so he wasn’t able to put up monster numbers. The big numbers came against SEC opponents.
That’s extremely rude and insensitive! Ignoring your offensive, comment, Kelly and Freeze are on a roll and it’s gonna be hard to stop Kelly! NC is a real option and ignorant opinions won’t change that.
Dak Prescott is not the best QB… Mississippi state worship him like he is a god or something… Chad Kelly is obviously the best in the conference… He out done Dak in the egg bowl and out played him all during the regular season… Dak had like 2 really good games against not really good defences… Chad played way better in big games against the best defences in the country… Including Mississippi State… Chad Kelly is better along with the whole Ole Miss team… Ole Miss is the better team… If you can’t see that… Go get your eyes checked
I disagree, but let’s think about something here. When was the last time UM and MS had two of the best three QB’s in the conference?
Agreed
I’d keep BA as the number one with Prescott and Kelly kind of a 2A and 2B situation. Of course Prescott and Kelly have more yards than Allen, but they have thrown 80-90 more times. BA also leads with YPA which would give him more yards had he needed to throw it as often. Prescott has considerably more sacks, but is also more dangerous with his legs in my opinion while Kelly is a very close second. Allen doesn’t have a high yards per carry but has shown his ability to escape the pocket and get a couple yards instead of taking a sack. Prescott has the best completion percentage of the three, but they are all very similar
Prescott 66.9
Kelly 65.2
Allen 65.1
Allen also leads with more TD’s but again it is very similar with only a 4 TD gap between the three. All in all I think Allen is still the best QB in the SEC. As many injuries that receiving core took for Arkansas, Allen had to rely on less options but was still able to produce as well as anybody. When you look at everything as a whole, the QB rating shows Allen leading with over 10 points over Kelly.
Allen 165.2
Kelly 154.4
Prescott 149.9
Also if you look at Total QBR it has Allen Ranked as #2 in the Country with Kelly at #4 and Prescott and #10
Brandon Allen is pretty good also I would have to agree… But Dak Prescott nah… Chad and Brandon is the best QB’s in the SEC… Dak has been at Mississippi state for like 3 or 4 years now… If he was so good like everybody said he was why didn’t he actually win something for a change… He is 1-3 against Ole Miss… And the only reason he won that one time was because bo Wallace fumbled the ball in the end zone.. He has done nothing
RebelsOleMiss, now you’re just being stupid. He had a good career and is a very good QB.
@ RebelsOleMiss
Hey I don’t like the farmers, obdog, or dak.
But, he was pretty good.
Wait. You don’t like me? I always find that odd, but it’s not the first time I’ve heard it.
click bait article with no substance. this has to be a joke there is no way Kelly is better than Prescott. The reason Kelly’s passing yards and touchdowns are up because he played cupcake teams for 4 qtrs. For this reason their offense put 70+ points on these teams early in the year. SDS needs to step it up
Chad “padded stats” Kelly
He only played the first half in those games haha. 341 on Bama, 368 on Arkansas, 381 on Auburn, 372 on Memphis.
Yeah those 75 passing yards he had while playing in the second halfs against UT Martin and Fresno really padded his stats lmao
Are you including A&M as one of those “cupcake” teams?
You’ve obviously lost your mind so let’s move on…Nobody could hang with Kelly this season. Yes Dak has been good, but his days have gone and his knees are obviously blown. He looked hurt and worn out in the Egg Bowl.
wonder what dak and chad are up to these days.
What’s the most important statistic category for a QB? That’s right! TD’s! 29 for Brandon Allen!
I agree! Chad Kelly 37 TDs
Kelly is on pace to have 40+ tds and the second most total yards in a season behind Manziel.
I think Dak and Chad were the best in the conference but you could make a good argument for Brandon. I do know this, Dak is a full grown man! Ole Miss rocked him the Egg Bowl and he stood up and kept coming back for more!
In just the 8 conf games:
Prescott
2528yds 67.1% 144.35QBR 17TDs 4INTs 7.5yd/att
Kelly
2427yds 62.6% 141.25QBR 16TDs 8INTs 8.0yd/att
B. Allen
1944yds 63.5% 159.05QBR 21TDs 5INTs 8.4yd/att
Receivers and oline should be factored in. Kelly had by far the best receiver in Treadwell. Overall? Olines are obvious, Ark, OM, then far & away worst, Miss St.
Sacks allowed in just the 8 conf games:
Ark 11
OM 13
Miss St 27
Kelly does not lead in a single one of these categories. No matter how long or little he played in OOC, his stats are obviously padded in OOC. And absolutely no case can be made for him having to overcome bad receivers or bad oline.
Allen has a sizable lead in most of the stats but had an oline far better than Prescott.
Prescott leads in completion percentage and INTs, especially INTs per attempt percentage, also in total yds but only because of so many more attempts than Allen, as show by the yd/att.
Padded stats? You mean the grand total of 75 yards Kelly had in the 2nd halves of the first two games? Kelly has been the better player. As I stated above, he’s on pace to have 40+ tds and the second most total yards in the history of the SEC behind Manziel. That’s better than what Prescott did last year, and he had Robinson for run support. No running back Ole Miss currently has compares to him.
The conf only stats are very clear. Maybe you should have at least looked at them before you posted.
Just in case you have trouble reading numbers. In conf games Kelly has LESS total yds passing than Prescott and LESS passing TDs than both B. Allen & Prescott. So if he accomplishes that, since conf games are over, it will be because of OOC games. Sorry, if it were otherwise, I would say so.
Let’s be fair here. Kelly played Vandy and UF on the other side. We played Mizzou and UK.
alcompto , I hate to tell you this, but after taking a closer look, you’re REALLY not good with numbers. How do you get Kelly’s “on pace to have 40+ tds” when he has 27 TDs in 12 games (overall) with one game left?
Total TD’s. Both he and Dak have 10 rushing.
obdog, we are talking QB stats. Missouri had fewer passing yds per game than Fla and Ky had fewer than Vand. There are a lot of factors like teams playing a lot better earlier or vice versa. I wasn’t going to try to factor that in. Conf only stats are readily available. People should really check the facts before they say something.
alcompto, I apologize. This thread had only had passing stats, but I definitely should have realized the “40+” included rushing TDs.
Rushing is problematic because sacks will be included in rushing stats. W/o the sacks Prescott has much better rushing stats than Kelly, the same # TDs overall, and one more TD in conf only games. Even that is padded for Kelly a little OOC.
Kelly is clearly the best. What people forget is this is his first year starting in the sec. Prescott and Allen have three years starting experience. Allen padded his stats in two games but was inconsistent the rest of the year.
Not clearly, or people wouldn’t be having this debate.
What Prescott didn’t do this year was win one of the “big” games against ranked opponents. He needed a helmet pass or something to go his way, because he just didn’t have enough tools around him. A lot more than people thought, but still just not quite enough.
OM’s OOC was horribly weak, aside from Memphis, who spanked them. Looking at conference play, Dak had more yards, more TD’s, fewer INT’s, and a higher completion percetage, all while taking a $hit ton more sacks because of an oline that unfortunately was worse than I thought it could be. He was running for his life, and still put up very impressive numbers. More impressive than Kelly’s IMO, who did this with the help of what is heralded as Ole Miss’s best recruiting class in history. Context matters… or is Joe Callahan really the best passing QB in the country??
And for season totals… Dak missed essentially the entire game against our weakest opponent, or his totals would be right there or above Kelly’s, he would have likely joined him at the 4K season club, and eclipsed his own total yards from last year. All with what everyone had insisted was a young and inexperienced team around him.
Look, we can argue all day, I’m not going to be convinced that Kelly was “clearly” the best. It’s obviously debatable. What I will say is that Kelly is a hell of a QB. He stepped up in some big games, and even if he had some help (from talent around him or the hand of God), he won some big games. I wish I could say the same for Dak this year, because he put in a million percent effort and carried the entire team on his back the whole year… and half the year his back was on the ground. Kelly was great, but he didn’t have to carry that burden alone. If Kelly stays, I’m sure he will have another good year, and he has the arm to be a good pro QB I believe.
Now you all can resume talking about how Dak is trash. lol.
Please don’t mention OOC. State is notorious for having a weak OOC. And y’all played two of the worst teams in he East, just like every other year. State’s crossover opponents are like 12-52 against the SEC in the last 4 years.
When you’re talking QBs, isn’t it how good the opponent’s pass defense is, this season, not how good the teams have been over 4 years?
Fans will always see the numbers they want to see. OM fans will say Kelly only played half of the cupcake games and that his strength was SEC play, but Dak has better SEC ypg, completion %, TD, INT… Oh. Then it’s that our SEC East competition was worse, except that the Mizzou pass D is better than Florida, KY better than Vandy… Oh. Then it will be that he did more with what he had to work with… Oh. Well, he’s just clearly better! CLEARLY!
He was on a team with more wins, more wins against quality opponents, and was on the team that beat State head to head. Can’t knock Kelly for that, hats off to a great season and another solid season by the Rebs.
And alcompto, the reason OOC is mentioned is that Ole Miss fans bring that up as a defense of his stats, that he didn’t play as much in those games and pad his stats. Sure, but he isn’t the only one, and if you actually look at the numbers…
Have either of you actually looked up the passing defense stats? Florida and Vandy are ahead of both Mizzou and UK in completions allowed, completion percentage, touchdowns, interceptions, and rating. UK is worst of the 4 in every category but attempts (Vandy), which by itself means nothing. Mizzou is better than Vandy only in yards allowed. Florida is top 2 in the SEC in all of the aforementioned categories. Btw, this is against conference opponents since that’s what y’all wanna use for every comparison.
In regards to the Kelly vs Prescott debate, Prescott has better accuracy and like 10 more yards against **common opponents**. Kelly has more touchdowns and yards per attempt (raw and adjusted), a higher touchdown % (tds divided by att), and a rating that is 15 points higher. Kelly does have more interceptions but the best indicator comparing those is adjusted interceptions. Not only does it take into account receiver drops that resulted in interceptions, but also drops by the defense that should’ve been interceptions. I know Kelly has had at least 5 that were receiver drops and a few that were drops by the defense. Dak had one against Arkansas that was Wilson’s fault, but I’m not sure about the other one’s he had other than the Ole Miss game (definitely his fault) or drops by the defense. The only con with adjusted interceptions is that it’s not readily available at the college level, so it would require watching every pass made by both quarterbacks.
It’s hard not to just look straight at the box score since it’s readily available and easy to find, but it can be misleading. Advanced metrics paint a much clearer picture. I suggest going to footballoutsiders.com and looking at the S&P+ Offense Ratings. There’s way too much involved with how they calculate it for me to explain it all, but Ole Miss is #2 nationally behind Arkansas in their passing category. It’s worth noting that these rankings take into account how good/bad the opponent’s defense is and make necessary adjustments. Also, they only factor in plays/drives that occurred while the game was competitive. No garbage time stats are included.
Common opponents are the SEC West teams. You must have made a careless error in total passing yds. Maybe other places, too?
Prescott
66.4% 1877yds 7.2yd/att 3.8%TD/att 1.1%INT/att QBR 136.9
Kelly
63.2% 1847yds 8.3yd/att 6.3%TD/att 2.2%INT/att QBR 149.0
B. Allen
65.6% 1623yds 8.5yd/att 10.4%TD/att 2.1%INT/att QBR 166.8
Prescott is the leader in three, Kelly in none, B. Allen in three.
Prescott is at least comparable, in spite of the huge difference in sacks allowed.
alcompto, did you really at Passing S&P+ at all? It is a team statistic totally useless in this case for individual QB comparisons. It counts sacks allowed against the team Passing S&P+. Having more sacks allowed should indicate the QB is better than his stats, not make the stats worse.
You must have trouble reading. I gave passing stats and the sacks allowed up above. You were posting in the very thread where I gave the stats.
Sacks allowed.
Ark 11
OM 13
Miss St 27
And that was conf. It’s even worse West only.
Sacks allowed.
Ark 10
OM 7
Miss St 23
Although sack rate is factored in, they are marginally so in their turnover rate, which is only 10% of the S&P+ (35% explosiveness, 25% efficiency, 15% field position, 10% finishing drives). There are way too many factors that make up the four other parts of this metric for sacks to be the lone determinant.
Common opponents are not the West teams. Kelly doesn’t play against Ole Miss. The common opponents between Kelly, Allen, and Prescott are Bama, LSU, A&M, and Auburn. Here’s what those #s look like:
Kelly: 60.4% 1243 yards 7.8/att 5.7td% 3.1int% 140.66 rating
Allen: 60.6% 775 yards 7.5/att 6.7td% 3.8int% 139.14 rating
Prescott: 61.8% 1115 1.8td% .6int% 120.95 rating
Kelly and Allen are virtually equal, as Kelly averaged 18 attempts per td and Allen averaged 15 attempts per td. Prescott averaged 57 attempts per td. So where does that put Prescott among the 3? And sacks aren’t factored into this rating formula (yards, tds, ints, and attempts). They are factored into raw and total QBR. That accounts for what quarterbacks do on a play-by-play level, based on the down, distance, field position, clock and score of play, scrambling ability, ability to run on designed runs, how well he avoids sacks, drawing and committing penalties, and fumbles. Allen leads total at 87.2, Kelly at 86.4, and Prescott at 81.1. Allen leads raw at 80.8, Kelly at 79.2, and Prescott at 73.1.
So who’s better between Kelly and Prescott.