Look: Joe Burrow Leads NFL in ESPN's QBR, Total EPA

The Bengals are wasting Burrow's best season.

Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow (9) sits on the bench between drives in the fourth quarter of the NFL Week 8 game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Philadelphia Eagles at Paycor Stadium in downtown Cincinnati on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. The Bengals fell to 3-5 on the season with a 37-17 loss to the Eagles at home. / Sam Greene/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

CINCINNATI — The Bengals are wasting Joe Burrow's best NFL season. The numbers are in from Week 8, and Cincinnati's passer now leads all quarterbacks in ESPN's season-long QBR metric (75.5) and total Expected Points Added (54.1).

All in all, Burrow's thrown for 1,996 yards, 15 TDs, and 3 INTs this season.

He's been fantastic, while the majority of his teammates fall short around him. It's a complete failure of the team's best player and echoes thoughts of former Bengals like Carson Palmer, who declared Burrow better off if he played somewhere besides Cincinnati before they drafted him in 2020.

The Bengals are the only team with a top-seven quarterback in ESPN's QBR to have a losing record so far this season. It's hard to lose this much with a quarterback playing this well, but the Bengals' brass is finding new ways to pull it off.

ESPN QBR / ESPN

Joe Burrow QB ranks so far through Week 8:

▪️PFF Grade - #2
▪️ESPN QBR - #1
▪️EPA/play - #4
▪️Completion % over expected - #4

The Bengals arguably have the MVP of the league and they are 3-5.

Remarkable. This falls on roster construction. https://t.co/ajxnk16VBG

— Gridiron Grading (@GridironGrading) October 28, 2024

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