What is the difference between passer rating and QBR?
Passer rating is a 1973 formula on four box-score rates — completion percentage, yards per attempt, touchdown rate and interception rate — capped at 158.3 and blind to everything else. QBR is ESPN’s model, built from play-by-play: it charges sacks and fumbles to the quarterback, credits his runs, adjusts for the defence he faced and weights plays by how much they changed the chance of winning. A quarterback who throws for 300 empty yards after the game is decided rates well on the first and poorly on the second.
Passer Rating (RTG) in fullQBR (QBR) in full
Where they disagree: 2025 NFL RTG leaders
The league's top 10 in RTG, with what each one did in QBR and where that ranked.
2025 regular season, qualified players only. Ranks are among the players who qualified in QBR.