NFL quarterback rankings entering Week 12: Who are QBR leaders for 2024 season?

Week 12 of the 2024 NFL season has arrived, the playoffs are less than two months away and there's a better sense of what teams are having a good season and what teams are not. That goes for the league's quarterbacks as well.

Several familiar names like Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen have settled in among the best passers in the NFL this season based on ESPN's QBR metric. But there are a couple new faces among the top 10 and plenty of intriguing numbers to digest related to the performance of NFL starting quarterbacks this season.

Jared Goff, for instance, finished with the highest QBR in the NFL during Week 11 when the Detroit Lions blew out the Jacksonville Jaguars, 52-6, last Sunday. Tua Tagovailoa of the Miami Dolphins wasn't far behind, ranking No. 2 while leading the Dolphins to a win over the Las Vegas Raiders. And Burrow, despite the Cincinnati Bengals dropping to 4-7 for the season with a loss to the Los Angeles Chargers, once again out-played his counterpart.

Here's how every NFL quarterback ranks based on ESPN's QBR for the 2024 season:

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ESPN's QBR, explained

Every week, ESPN gives each quarterback a QBR for their latest performance. According to ESPN, the rating is intended to "incorporate all of a quarterback’s contributions to winning, including how he impacts the game on passes, rushes, turnovers and penalties."

QBR measures each play's degree of success and how much credit the quarterback deserves for the play. The statistic also takes into account the strength of opposing defenses faced. The final result is an efficiency rating as a number on a 0-to-100-point scale. The cumulative rating is averaged out on a per-play basis across the course of the season.

Ranking NFL quarterbacks by total QBR ahead of Week 12

Here's how every starting quarterback with at least 100 pass attempts this season stacks up before Week 12 of the NFL season, based on their 2024 QBR (listed from worst to first):

1. Deshaun Watson, Cleveland Browns (QBR: 22.4)

2. Cooper Rush, Dallas Cowboys (28.4):

3. Bryce Young, Carolina Panthers (32.5)

4. Will Levis, Tennessee Titans (32.6)

5. Gardner Minshew, Las Vegas Raiders (39.1)

6. Russell Wilson, Pittsburgh Steelers (43.0)

7. Jacoby Brissett, New England Patriots (43.3)

8. Caleb Williams, Chicago Bears (44.5)

9. Anthony Richardson, Indianapolis Colts (45.9)

10. Daniel Jones, New York Giants (46.8)

11. Dak Prescott, Dallas Cowboys (46.9)

12. Aaron Rodgers, New York Jets (51.0)

13. Justin Fields, Pittsburgh Steelers (53.5)

14. Andy Dalton, Carolina Panthers (53.7)

15. C.J. Stroud, Houston Texans (54.4)

16. Joe Flacco, Indianapolis Colts (55.1)

17. Bo Nix, Denver Broncos (55.3)

18. Geno Smith, Seattle Seahawks (55.4)

19. Sam Darnold, Minnesota Vikings (55.7)

20. Baker Mayfield, Tampa Bay Buccaneers (56.2)

21. Justin Herbert, Los Angeles Chargers (56.3)

22. Kirk Cousins, Atlanta Falcons (56.3)

23. Mason Rudolph, Tennessee Titans (56.6)

24. Jordan Love, Green Bay Packers (59.3)

25. Jared Goff, Detroit Lions (59.4)

26. Drake Maye, New England Patriots (59.6)

27. Tua Tagovailoa, Miami Dolphins (60.4)

28. Matthew Stafford, Los Angeles Rams (60.6)

29. Trevor Lawrence, Jacksonville Jaguars (62.0)

30. Jalen Hurts, Philadelphia Eagles (62.0)

31. Derek Carr, New Orleans Saints (62.1)

32. Jameis Winston, Cleveland Browns (63.6)

33. Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City Chiefs (67.0)

34. Brock Purdy, San Francisco 49ers (67.4)

35. Jayden Daniels, Washington Commanders (67.6)

36. Josh Allen, Buffalo Bills (72.7)

37. Kyler Murray, Arizona Cardinals (74.9)

38. Lamar Jackson, Baltimore Ravens (75.0)

39. Joe Burrow, Cincinnati Bengals (76.1)

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: NFL QB rankings Week 12: Who are QBR leaders?