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2020 NFL Free Agency: Estimating wins gained from recent QB signings

The 2020 NFL offseason has already seen an unprecedented amount of movement at the quarterback position. In this article, I want to look at how these changes will be reflected where it matters most — the win-loss record.

PFF has recently developed a wins above replacement metric, which estimates the number of wins a player is worth above a practice squad player with the same distribution of snaps at the various facets of play. While WAR values for positions other than quarterback are (probably surprisingly) small, most quarterbacks who play a significant number of snaps are worth multiple wins or at least a large fraction of one win.