Brock Purdy, C.J. Stroud, Kirk Cousins and the grossest NFL quarterbacks of Week 7
Week 7 was a rough one for some of the league’s most successful quarterbacks, young and old.
Brock Purdy couldn’t lug a depleted core of playmakers to victory in a rematch of Super Bowl 58. Kirk Cousins went through his worst day as an Atlanta Falcon. C.J. Stroud lent credence to the idea of the sophomore slump in the NFL.
This all led to a frustrating week in which only a single quarterback, Josh Allen, threw for at least 300 passing yards through the course of Sunday’s games. So who was Week 7’s most disappointing quarterback? We’ve got a metric that can help with that.
Using the advanced stat expected points added (EPA) can gauge how much a quarterback brings to the table compared to a typical player. By comparing each passer’s Week 7 EPA against their 2024 average to date we get a better picture of just how frustrating their performances were. And we can find both of those thanks to The Athletic’s Ben Baldwin and his incredibly useful stats sites RBSDM.com and HabitatRing.com.
This is a metric that gauges disappointment based on what we’d typically expect. So while, hypothetically, if Will Levis were hot garbage on a given Sunday he’s pretty much always hot garbage, so being slightly worse than usual wouldn’t be enough to qualify him for this list. Who was the worst? There were several candidates but only one man can truly call himself the grossest quarterback of Week 7.
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