It’s late April and NFL scouts are desperately looking for reasons to justify whether or not their teams should pick certain QBs in this week’s NFL Draft. Let’s give them yet another metric to agonize over while bumbling through the internet at 3 in the morning; let’s compare college football’s QBs with the QB Score. Before we delve into the QB Score, however, we first have to recognize what’s missing from the the most common QB metric, the collegiate passer efficiency rating (PER). Behold the PER, in all its glory (trigger warning: extremely basic math lies ahead).
The PER is a fine metric for passing, but it has some unusual traits.