2026 season · box score + nflverse play-by-play

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Joe BurrowQB · CIN

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Sam DarnoldQB · SEA

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Joe BurrowQB · CIN

Sam DarnoldQB · SEA

Across the 8 shown metrics with numbers for at least two players (2026 season, per game): Burrow leads in 7 and Darnold leads in 1. A count of who is ahead, not a verdict: the metrics overlap and do not weigh the same.

Usage

BurrowDarnold

Percentile chips: vs 34 QBs who played half the games, 2026 season

+10.7999thTotal EPA per game-0.9831st

Passing

BurrowDarnold

Percentile chips: vs 35 QBs who have 12+ dropbacks a week, 2026 season

298.399thPass yards per game211.141st

2.999thTouchdowns per game1.451st

0.837thInterceptions per game · lower is better1.34th

+0.26190thEPA per dropback-0.02939th

+9.799thCPOE · completion % over expected-2.519th

4.7%76thSack rate · lower is better7.2%41st

Rushing

BurrowDarnold

9.6Rush yards per game10.3

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Usage

8Games with stats7

99.3%74thSnap share · average share of team snaps in the games he played87.1%16th

41.387thPlays with EPA per game33.928th

Passing

74.0%99thCompletion %60.2%10th

8.184thYards per attempt7.050th

54.7%93rdSuccess rate43.5%36th

7.536thaDOT · average depth of target6.916th

Rushing

2.9Carries per game · official rush attempts1.6

1.0Designed runs in EPA per game · QB scrambles count as dropbacks, kneels are left out0.0

3.3Yards per carry6.5

0.4Rush TD per game0.0

+0.285EPA per designed run–

87.5%Success rate–

0.110+ yard runs per game0.0

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Total EPA by week (bars) and running total (lines)Joe BurrowSam Darnold

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Expected points added across every role (passing, rushing, receiving) in the nflverse play-by-play model, in the period you picked. Lines run the total; a missing bar is a week without plays. The dot marks the best week among the 2 players.

Matchups to start with

top passers · most targeted

Brock Purdy vs Trevor Lawrence Joe Burrow vs Josh Allen Jared Goff vs Caleb Williams C.J. Stroud vs Jordan Love CeeDee Lamb vs Jaxon Smith-Njigba Matthew Golden vs Puka Nacua Michael Wilson vs Amon-Ra St. Brown Chris Olave vs Malik Nabers

Box score totals from ESPN (regular season and playoffs; “last 4” is each player's four most recent games with a box score line). EPA, success rate, CPOE, aDOT, target and air-yard share from the nflverse play-by-play over the same games; snap share from nflverse snap counts. EPA per dropback includes sacks and scrambles. Carries are the official ESPN rush attempts; EPA per designed run leaves out quarterback scrambles (they count as dropbacks) and kneel-downs, so for a quarterback the two counts differ. Per opportunity divides counting stats by nflverse dropbacks (passing), ESPN targets (receiving) and ESPN carries (rushing); other counts go per game. Percentiles rank each value among players at the same position with enough volume in the same period (the same groups as the player cards: QBs 12 dropbacks a week, RBs 4.5 carries, wide receivers 2.5 targets, tight ends 2, defenders half the games; fewer than 8 peers, no percentile). The bars compare the players on the page only, not the league.