Sunday treated us to some outrageous finishes throughout the league, including an early contender for game of the year between the Dolphins and Ravens. Both Lamar Jackson and Tua Tagovailoa were excellent, and were among the best quarterbacks of the week. In fact, Lamar Jackson grades out with the most impressive performance from the weekend.

As a reminder, to come up with this list, I do a slightly modified take on the formula used for adjusted net passing yards per attempt, where I eliminate the best passing result from the total yardage and attempts. I do this because I believe it better accounts for the efficiency of a team’s passing offense. If a disproportionate amount of a team’s passing production comes on one play, then the offense wasn’t consistently contributing much to the team’s success.

QUARTERBACK	COMPLETIONS	DROPBACKS	NET YARDS	TDs	INTs
LAMAR JACKSON	20	28	243	3	0
JOSH ALLEN	25	38	274	4	0
TUA TAGOVAILOA	35	49	401	6	2
TREVOR LAWRENCE	24	29	209	2	0
JALEN HURTS	25	33	270	1	1
JARED GOFF	19	36	185	4	0
AARON RODGERS	18	27	156	2	0
JOE FLACCO	25	45	226	4	0
DEREK CARR	24	39	221	2	0
COOPER RUSH	18	31	184	1	0
JIMMY GAROPPOLO	12	21	116	1	0
PATRICK MAHOMES	23	36	185	2	0
JUSTIN HERBERT	32	49	287	3	1
JACOBY BRISSETT	21	27	191	1	1
MATTHEW STAFFORD	26	36	243	3	2
CARSON WENTZ	29	50	268	3	1
MAC JONES	20	34	208	1	1
RUSSELL WILSON	13	33	166	1	1
TOM BRADY	17	34	147	1	0
KYLER MURRAY	30	49	241	1	1
DANIEL JONES	21	36	138	1	0
JOE BURROW	23	41	146	1	0
BAKER MAYFIELD	13	30	100	1	0
GENO SMITH	23	31	153	0	1
DAVIS MILLS	18	40	125	0	0
MITCHELL TRUBISKY	20	35	129	1	1
MARCUS MARIOTA	16	28	132	2	2
KIRK COUSINS	26	47	183	1	3
JAMEIS WINSTON	24	45	155	1	3
MATT RYAN	15	34	125	0	3
RYAN TANNEHILL	10	21	82	0	2
JUSTIN FIELDS	6	13	17	0	1

Even in a loss – and subtracting his one 75-yard throw – Lamar Jackson was the standout quarterback of week two, and that’s not taking into account his abilities as a ball carrier. In the 28 recorded drop-backs, he accounted for 243 yards through the air and three touchdowns for an adjusted average of 10.82. The model liked Jackson’s performance by 1.5 points over Josh Allen, who recorded 31 yards and one touchdown more than Jackson, but it took him ten extra drop-backs to get to those numbers.

Tua Tagovailoa would have been a runaway number one if not for his two interceptions, , but he was so impressive in the Dolphins victory over the Ravens that even with two turnovers through the air he was the third best quarterback of week two.

Aaron Rodgers was workmanlike in his first appearance as a top ten quarterback this year, while Cooper Rush, Joe Flacco, and Jared Goff surprised with their winning performances on Sunday. The much talked about QB matchup between Patrick Mahomes and Justin Herbert ended with both falling just short of the top ten, at 12 and 13. The week’s #11? None other than Jimmy Garoppolo, who could have just saved the 49ers’ season.

On the other end up the spectrum, there were plenty of bad quarterback performances this week, including our first three negative performances of the season! Anyone who watched the primetime games this weekend saw three really good quarterback play (Aaron Rodgers, Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts) and quarterbacks that make up 60% of the bottom five performances of the week. It started Sunday night when Justin Fields followed up last week‘s bottom five performance with one that was somehow worse. When removing his one 31-yard pass play and accounting for the three extra drop-backs that resulted in sacks, Fields’ had 13 passing situations that resulted in six completions for 17 yards and one interception. Monday night began with a performance nearly as disastrous, Ryan Tannehill showing a severe decline after last week’s top ten performance. His longest pass of the night was only 19 yards, but couple that with the 16 yards he lost on two sacks, and Tannehill was only able to produce 82 yards on 21 of the team’s dropbacks, completing less than half of the attempts while also being intercepted twice. And then Kirk Cousins came through with the “best” performance of the three dreadful primetime appearances. Let’s just put it this way; his performance elevated Marcus Mariota’s performance on Sunday to just outside the bottom five of the week. His long for the night was also only 19 yards, but he also took two sacks for just as many yards. When you take away his best throw of the night and the 19 yards lost to the sacks, Cousins had 47 dropbacks produce a paltry 183 yards.

The weekend’s other worst performances aren’t a shock to anyone. Matt Ryan was unable to get the Colts in the endzone, and only produced 125 yards on the 34 recorded drop-backs while also throwing three interceptions. Jameis Winston likewise put up a dreadful showing on Sunday, also being intercepted three times. And Winston was similarly under duress as Ryan. Taking into account the six drop-backs that resulted in 30 yards being lost on offense as well as his long of the day of 51-yards, Winston had 45 passing situations that netted the team just 155 yards.