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Does QB Performance Decline Over a Season?

Quarterbacks and defenses engage in an arms race throughout the season (Mark Baer-USA TODAY Sports).

Will quarterbacks get a second wind after Week 8 or continue on a steady decline?

On average, how does the most important player on the football field fare throughout the course of a season? There are innumerable ways to measure how quarterbacks perform in a single game, and an average of these will tell you how they did overall in a season. But how do quarterbacks’ performances trend over the course of sixteen games?

Total Quarterback Rating (QBR) is a metric designed by ESPN to grade quarterback performance on a scale of 0-100.