Jordan Love, Caleb Williams, Geno Smith and the grossest NFL quarterbacks of Week 9

Week 9 continued 2024’s trend of declining passing offenses. Only a single quarterback threw for more than 300 yards Sunday — and he had to overcome three interceptions to get there.

Geno Smith’s end zone pick-six helped sink the Seattle Seahawks against a vintage performance from Matthew Stafford and the Los Angeles Rams and landed him on this week’s lineup of gross passers. But was he Week 9’s most disappointing quarterback? Fortunately, we’ve got a metric that can help figure that one.

Using the advanced stat expected points added (EPA) can gauge how much a quarterback brings to the table compared to a typical player. By comparing each passer’s Week 9 EPA against their 2024 average to date we get a better picture of just how frustrating their performances were. And we can find both of those thanks to The Athletic’s Ben Baldwin and his incredibly useful stats sites RBSDM.com and HabitatRing.com.

This is a metric that gauges disappointment based on what we’d typically expect. Dak Prescott had a negative EPA in Week 9 before leaving with a hamstring injury, but his -2.7 was still better than his season-long average of -4.5 EPA per game, so he missed the list. Who was the worst? There were several candidates but only one man can truly call himself the grossest quarterback of Week 9.

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