Each of the previous six quarterbacks to accomplish that feat captured MVP honors in their respective seasons. They’re two of only eight quarterbacks in NFL history with at least 3,000 passing yards and a 110+ passer rating in their team’s first 10 games of a season. In Week 11, two of the NFL’s top three offenses face off as the Chiefs head to Los Angeles (not Mexico City) to take on the Rams.Ĭhiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (3,150 passing yards, 117.4 passer rating) and Rams quarterback Jared Goff (3,134 passing yards, 113.0 passer rating) rank first and second, respectively in the NFL in passing yards. Looking ahead to the rest of the season, it’s fair to expect more quarterbacks to dominate and for NFL record books to continue to change. That surpassed the previous high of 17, which was set in Week 2 this year. Of the 28 quarterbacks who started in Week 10 (67.9 percent), 19 of them recorded a passer rating of 100+ (minimum 15 attempts), the most in a single week in NFL history. Trubisky and Brees have done it twice, and in addition to the previously-mentioned names, Ryan Tannehill, Matt Ryan, Nick Mullens, Patrick Mahomes, and Ryan Fitzpatrick are part of the club, too. This season, there have been 13 games featuring a quarterback with a passer rating of 145+ (minimum 20 attempts). That has occurred four different times, most recently in Week 3 of the 2017 season. In addition to Roethlisberger, three other quarterbacks recorded a passer rating of at least 145 (minimum 20 attempts) in Week 10.įour quarterbacks with a 145+ passer rating (minimum 20 attempts) is the most in a single week in NFL history, surpassing the previous high of three. This season we’ve seen quarterbacks playing lights out week after week. NFL perfect passer rating performances Player Instead, he’s tied with two of the NFL’s best-ever quarterbacks. Had that 2004 performance been just a tiny bit better, Roethlisberger could be sitting alone as the quarterback with the most perfect passer ratings. He then finally accomplished the feat twice in 2007 before waiting more than 10 years to do it again on Thursday. Making what Roethlisberger has done even more impressive is that he was just three-tenths of a point shy of of a perfect passer rating in 2004 in a 17-16 win over the Jaguars during his rookie year. That same year Roethlisberger had two and Donovan McNabb had his one and only. He’s had two games with a perfect passer rating, but hasn’t had one since 2007. Tom Brady is the only other quarterback with more than one game with a perfect rating in his career. That’s a pretty elite club for the Steelers quarterback. The other quarterbacks to complete three games with a perfect passer rating are Kurt Warner and Peyton Manning. It was Big Ben’s third game with a perfect passer rating, tying him for the most games with a perfect passer rating since 1999. Most recently, Ben Roethlisberger was nearly flawless in a 52-21 Steelers win over the Panthers in which he completed 22 of 25 passes for 328 yards, five touchdowns, and zero interceptions. In Week 8, Russell Wilson dazzled in a win against the Lions that saw him complete 14 of 17 passes for 248 yards, three touchdowns, and zero interceptions. Cousins also had a great game, but not a 158.3 passer rating like Goff. Goff completed 26 of 33 passes for 465 yards, five touchdowns, and zero interceptions in a 33-26 win. It started in Week 4 with a spectacular Thursday night game from Jared Goff and the Rams against Kirk Cousins and the Vikings. It’s already happened three times in 2018, accounting for 13.6 percent of all such occurrences since Pro Football Reference began tracking that data in 1999. These 22 quarterbacks threw for a minimum of 15 passes and achieved a perfect passer rating of 158.3. And we’re not talking about wide receivers who throw a single pass that happens to go for a touchdown, or quarterbacks entering a game in garbage time. 22 NFL quarterbacks completed a game with a perfect passer rating from 1999 to 2017.
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