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Bill ConnellyOct 1, 2025, 06:52 AM ET
- Bill Connelly is simply a writer for ESPN. He covers assemblage football, shot and tennis. He has been astatine ESPN since 2019.
Preseason All-American Cade Klubnik's squad is 1-3 and he's 94th successful Total QBR. Preseason Heisman favourite Arch Manning is 71st. Sam Leavitt, Nico Iamaleava and Drew Allar, each playoff quarterbacks successful 2024, are 61st, 76th and 88th, respectively. On the flip side, Notre Dame redshirt freshman C.J. Carr and Ole Miss' Trinidad Chambliss, a Division II transfer, are successful the apical 5 successful Total QBR.
We knew this could beryllium an unusual assemblage shot play for backmost play, with truthful galore apical teams fielding caller starters and lone a fewer known entities -- including Klubnik and Allar, who person not earned that statement -- starting retired adjacent the apical of the polls. But this has each been adjacent alien than we could person imagined.
With a period gone successful the 2025 season, let's instrumentality stock. We've seen plentifulness of stellar backmost play, but a batch of it has travel from unexpected sources. So let's fertile each powerfulness league team's backmost (or backmost situation) arsenic we caput into October.
(Note: References to rushing yards successful stat lines beneath bash not see sack yardage.)
1. Jayden Maiava, USC
Total QBR: 93.4 | Pass Yds: 1,587 | Rush Yds: 80 | Total TDs: 15
He was fto down by his defence against Illinois connected Saturday, but Maiava is comfortably No. 1 successful Total QBR done September, and among QBR-qualified quarterbacks, he's 1 of lone 2 to fertile successful the apical 20 successful some completion complaint (70.5%) and yards per completion (16.2). Illinois was comfortably his worst crippled of the season, and helium inactive threw for 364 yards with a Total QBR of 85.5.
2. Diego Pavia, Vanderbilt
Total QBR: 88.4 | Pass Yds: 1,211 | Rush Yds: 306 | Total TDs: 15
We inactive don't cognize if Vandy has the earthy explosiveness (or defense) to past a brutal upcoming tally of opponents -- adjacent 4 games: astatine Alabama, LSU, Missouri, astatine Texas -- but we bash cognize that Pavia's ratio has gone from bully to ruthless successful 2025. Fewer antagonistic plays, less (but much effective) scrambles and a 75% completion rate. Ridiculously good.
3. Trinidad Chambliss, Ole Miss
Total QBR: 87.6 | Pass Yds: 1,033 | Rush Yds: 269 | Total TDs: 7
Austin Simmons started the play beauteous good arsenic Ole Miss' starter, but erstwhile helium injured his ankle, Chambliss stepped successful and Wally Pipp'd him. He's creating much explosive plays with acold less antagonistic plays and much of a tally threat. Last December, helium torched Valdosta State to pb Ferris State to the Division II nationalist title. This December, helium mightiness pb Ole Miss onto the tract for its archetypal SEC title game.
4. Fernando Mendoza, Indiana
Total QBR: 82.1 | Pass Yds: 1,208 | Rush Yds: 132 | Total TDs: 18
Indiana ranks archetypal nationally successful occurrence rate*, and Mendoza ranks archetypal among QBs. He survived an ever tricky travel to Iowa City this past weekend, too, throwing for 233 yards and 2 touchdowns (albeit with an interception and 2 sacks). Kurtis Rourke was a immense portion of Indiana's astonishment occurrence past season, and acknowledgment to Mendoza the Hoosiers are doing arsenic good oregon adjacent amended this year.
(* Success rate: How often an discourtesy is gaining 50% of nec...
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