Pro Football Focus - Ranking all 130 College QBs

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No quarterback has a higher overall or passing grade on passes targeted at least 10 yards downfield as Burrow has dominated the first six weeks of college football. On such throws, Burrow has completed 57-of-77 attempts for 1,285 yards and 16 touchdowns, all of which lead the country. He’s the nation’s most exciting downfield thrower to the intermediate range of the field and outside the numbers as he’s found his big receivers outside the numbers better than anyone else. Much like we saw from Tagovailoa in 2018, Burrow currently ranks in the top five in terms of passer rating from the following categories: under pressure (1st), kept clean (5th), with play-action (4th), without play-action (4th) and on deep passes (2nd). To boot, he’s the national leader in adjusted completion percentage (84.9%) among the 87 quarterbacks with at least 115 attempts.

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Tua currently leads the nation with a ridiculous stat line of 23 touchdowns against no interceptions as he’s completing 76.4% of his passes for 11.6 yards per attempt. He’s leading the country in passer rating from a clean pocket (156.7) after he led the country a year ago in the same regard. Similarly, he led the nation in passer rating on throws without a play fake, much like he’s doing again this year, proving just how stable those metrics are from year to year. He leads the country with 20 touchdowns from a clean pocket and is third in total yards but has needed at least 12 fewer passes than those ahead of him in yards. When he’s on, he’s perhaps the best thrower of the football in the country and the November 9 matchup between LSU and Alabama will give us a quarterback dual we haven’t seen in some time.

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He hasn’t been tasked with much through the first six weeks of the season but when his team has needed him, Fromm has delivered. He connected on many sharp passes during the team’s victory over Notre Dame and he’s just been an accurate passer who takes what the defense gives him so far. He’s avoiding negatively-graded plays at an extremely high rate while putting forth positively-graded attempts at another absurd rate in its own regard. Fromm has the nation’s second-highest passer rating without play action at 132.0 as that is a critical factor towards success not only at the collegiate level but at the NFL level as well. Not shockingly, he has top-20 figures in adjusted completion percentage and passer ratings both under pressure and when kept clean from pressure.

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An injury scare now behind us, Bryant’s impact for the Tigers has been impressive after a season-opening loss at Wyoming. He’s graded very well this season and is averaging 8.6 yards per attempt while almost surpassing his season touchdown totals from his lone season as a starter back in 2017 with Clemson. He’s continued what we knew he was good at back in 2017, currently holding a 75.4% adjusted completion percentage, throwing catchable balls on over three-quarters of his pass attempts. He may get it done differently than Drew Lock did but the key phrase there to take away, he simply gets the job done.

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Mond has had some ‘wow’ moments this year, most notably his reverse-body pass on a perfect rope against Texas State to open the year. Save for the game against Clemson, he’s had a game grade above 66.5 in each contest despite having 15 of his passes dropped this season, the fifth-most in the country. In total, he’s currently holding a strong adjusted completion percentage of 75.3% and has avoided negative-graded plays well this year while also performing well from a clean pocket. He’ll have to continue that strong play from a clean pocket when he gets them as the road continually gets tougher with Alabama, Mississippi State, Georgia and LSU on schedule.

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Getting the better of his counterpart when he squared off against Bo Nix and Auburn, Trask has actually been one of the better quarterbacks in the country without using play action. He’s currently ninth among qualified signal-callers with a 123.7 passer rating on non-play-action passes, completing 38-of-49 attempts for 451 yards and four scores. A stable metric from week to week, that’s a strong sense of future success with Trask at the helm.

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At first, this job belonged to Matt Corral, but after an injury threw Plumlee into the lineup, he may not give up his spot anytime soon. He’s put forth plus-grades in each of his first two starts and shown a dynamic rushing ability that’s seen him average 7.2 yards per carry and gain 285 yards on designed carries alone. He’s forced 11 missed tackles and as he’s developing as a passer, this is a fun skillset he can rely on for the Rebels.

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Shrader made national headlines with his helicopter spin’o’rama on a play he dove for the first down earlier this season against Kansas State but he has yet to grade above 74.0 overall as his real danger comes with his legs. He’s gained 231 yards on designed carries and another 121 on scrambles, forcing 11 missed tackles in the process. A few more good decisions through the air and this Bulldogs team can compete with the best of them.

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Moving up from their preseason ranking, Hicks and the Razorbacks were a play away from upsetting Texas A&M as Hicks had one of his highest-graded games of his career. With Nick Starkel exiting with injury against the Aggies, Hicks is actually the higher-graded player of the duo so it seems the decision to start Hicks has been made for head coach Chad Morris, a decision the PFF grades agree with.

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As good a story in college football, Hilinski has taken over for Jake Bentley as that era for the Gamecocks seems to have finally run its course. Hilinski entered the lineup against Alabama and had some highlight-reel plays but hasn’t been able to live up to the promise he showed against Charleston Southern. He’ll have to keep the ball out of harm’s way through the SEC conference slate, something he’s done a decent job of since Alabama and has only four turnover-worthy passes this season.

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