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ATL Atlanta Falcons · QB· #13

Cooper Rush

Age
32
Height
6'3"
Weight
225 lbs
College
Central Michigan; Tarrant County JC
Drafted
Not drafted
Experience
10th NFL season
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25

Overall grade

40th of 40 quarterbacks

Among the weakest

among the worst; 50 is average

Grades updated Rechecked every few hours on game days

The read

Cooper grades among the worst among quarterbacks so far, with no number far from the middle.

Not playing lately: He played in 2 of his team's first 3 games, then did not play in the last 1 game.

Written from his numbers, not from film. 2 games are behind the season figures.

How he stacks up

Every graded stat at a glance, against all the quarterbacks in the league.

  • Sack rate11.6%38th of 40small sample
  • Bad throws20.9%37th of 38small sample
  • EPA per dropback−0.7240th of 40small sample
  • Success rate33%40th of 40small sample

Left is the worst at his job, right is the best, and the line down the middle is average. The bubble is his percentile: 90 means better than nine in ten qualifying quarterbacks. Faded bars are still small samples.

How he has progressed

Where he has ranked among quarterbacks after each week, and every game behind it.

WorstMiddleBestrecent12345Week 1: 0th percentileWeek 2: 0th percentile0th

Season rank holding near the 0th percentile since Wk 1.

The line is his season-to-date rank among players at his position after each week, from 100 (the best) to 0 (the worst). It rises when he passes other players, not when he has one big game. Early weeks are noisier because fewer plays are behind them. The shaded weeks are the recent stretch.

EPA per dropback game by game
WeekOpponentThat gamedropbacksSeason rank after
1vs PIT−0.75250th pct
2vs CAR−0.68180th pct

One game is a small sample: a single stat over 22 dropbacks can swing on a handful of plays. Shaded rows are the recent stretch.

The numbers, in context

Each one against every quarterback with at least 40 dropbacks. Right on the strip is better.

EPA per dropback

Among the weakest

−0.72

40th of 40 quarterbacks · bottom 3%

Expected points added: how many points the play added to (or took from) the offense's scoring chances, given the down, the distance and the field position. Sacks, scrambles and throwaways all count, so it is everything he does when he drops back, not just the completions.

The box score: Passing yards and touchdowns ignore down, distance and sacks, so a 6-yard checkdown on 3rd-and-12 looks like a good play.

Does it show up in winning? Across 151 games league-wide, teams won 84% of the time when their quarterback was in the best third on EPA per dropback, and 28% when he was in the worst third.

Small sample: could move a lot · 43 dropbacks · true level likely −1.11 to −0.33

Success rate

Among the weakest

33%

40th of 40 quarterbacks · bottom 3%

How often a dropback gains enough to keep the offense on schedule: about 40% of the yards needed on first down, 60% on second, all of them on third and fourth.

The box score: Yards per attempt cannot tell a gain that helped from one that did not.

Does it show up in winning? Across 151 games league-wide, teams won 74% of the time when their quarterback was in the best third on success rate, and 36% when he was in the worst third.

Small sample: could move a lot · 43 dropbacks · true level likely 21% to 44%

Bad throws

Among the weakest

20.9%lower is better

37th of 38 quarterbacks · bottom 6%

The share of his attempts that Pro Football Reference's charters called a bad throw: off target, not just incomplete. Fewer is better.

The box score: An incompletion also blames him for a drop or a throwaway.

Does it show up in winning? Across 124 games league-wide, teams won 66% of the time when their quarterback was in the best third on bad throws, and 39% when he was in the worst third.

Small sample: could move a lot · 43 attempts · true level likely 10.5% to 31.4%

Sack rate

Among the weakest

11.6%lower is better

38th of 40 quarterbacks · bottom 8%

Sacks as a share of his dropbacks. It is the quarterback and the line together. Fewer is better.

The box score: A sack total depends on how often he drops back.

Does it show up in winning? Across 151 games league-wide, teams won 55% of the time when their quarterback was in the best third on sack rate, and 37% when he was in the worst third.

Small sample: could move a lot · 43 dropbacks · true level likely 3.1% to 20.2%

How he plays

Tendencies: how his game differs from the quarterbacks around him. These are not better or worse, only different, and often say as much about the offense or defense he plays in as about him.

Play-action dropbacks

Style

7%

Rarely uses play-action, and more so than almost any of the quarterbacks. A typical one is 23%.

How often a dropback starts with a fake handoff.

Sample still growing · 43 dropbacks

Blitzed

Style

21%

Is rarely blitzed, and more so than almost any of the quarterbacks. A typical one is 32%.

How often defenses send an extra rusher at him.

Small sample: could move a lot · 43 dropbacks

Leaves the pocket

Style

5%

Stays in the pocket, and more so than almost any of the quarterbacks. A typical one is 18%.

How often he is outside the pocket when he throws or is sacked.

Sample still growing · 43 dropbacks

Playing time

He has played in 2 of his team's 4 games with snap counts, on the field for about 79% of the team's offensive plays when he plays.

Not playing lately. He played in 2 of his team's first 3 games, then did not play in the last 1 game.

Each column is a game: the share of his team's offensive snaps he played. 80% means about 8 of every 10 plays. “Out” means he did not play; a question mark means snap counts are not posted yet. Shaded games are the recent stretch.

Game by game

Every game this season: how it ended for his team, how much he played, his box score, and the advanced numbers from that one game. One game is a small sample, so read the right-hand columns as a snapshot, not his level.

Cooper Rush game by game
GameResultSnapsAttCmpYdsTDIntSackedEPA/dropbackSuccessBad throws
Wk 1 vs PITL 13–20100%251197124−0.7528%16.0%
Wk 2 vs CARL 3–3458%181083021−0.6839%27.8%

The box score

The traditional totals, with where each ranks among quarterbacks. A total rewards volume, which is why the advanced numbers above matter.

Cooper Rush box score totals
StatTotalRank
Pass attempts4340th of 40
Completions2140th of 40
Passing yards18040th of 40
Passing touchdowns139th of 40
Interceptions thrown46th of 40
Times sacked531st of 40

Players with a similar profile

The quarterbacks whose grades are closest to his across the same stats. Similar means similar numbers, not the same style of play.

Ranks are among players at the same job who have enough plays to be graded. Grades and rankings come from play-by-play, charting and snap-count data, so they cannot see blocking, route running or assignments. See how the grades work.

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Data: nflverse play-by-play, CC BY 4.0. Also FTN charting, Pro Football Reference advanced stats, snap counts and injury reports, all through nflverse. Calculations and charts by Raiders Rundown.

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