Via ChatGPT:
If I were ranking the 2025 starting quarterbacks specifically on late-game performance (one-score games in the fourth quarter and overtime), I’d combine:
- Game-winning drives (GWD)
- Fourth-quarter comebacks (4QC)
- Efficiency in one-score fourth quarters
- Turnover avoidance
- EPA/QBR in high-leverage situations (where available)
- Team success in close games
That produces something like this:
| Tier | Quarterbacks |
| S+ (Best in NFL) | Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes, Matthew Stafford |
| S | Joe Burrow, Jayden Daniels, Bo Nix |
| A | Jared Goff, Justin Herbert, Jalen Hurts, Jordan Love |
| B+ | Brock Purdy, Baker Mayfield, Dak Prescott, Lamar Jackson |
| B | Trevor Lawrence, Geno Smith, Caleb Williams, Drake Maye |
| C+ | Kyler Murray, C.J. Stroud, Tua Tagovailoa, Sam Darnold |
| C | Aaron Rodgers, Bryce Young, Russell Wilson, Anthony Richardson |
| D | Justin Fields, Derek Carr, Daniel Jones, Will Levis |
| F | Jacoby Brissett, Deshaun Watson, Davis Mills, Aidan O’Connell* |
*If counting quarterbacks who started enough games to qualify.
Where Brissett struggled
Compared with the average NFL starter:
| Metric | Average Starter | Brissett |
| Completion % (close 4Q) | ~65–68% | 58.0% |
| Passer Rating | ~90–95 | 77.6 |
| Team Record | Roughly .500 | 1–5 |
| TD:INT | Usually 2:1 or better | 1:1 |
Why teams still like Brissett
Despite those numbers, Brissett still has qualities coaches value:
- Rarely puts the ball in danger overall.
- Good pre-snap recognition.
- Well respected in the locker room.
- Can execute an offense without many mental mistakes.
- Good backup and bridge quarterback.
His ceiling, however, has generally been viewed as a high-end backup/low-end starter, not someone who consistently wins games late.
Bottom line
If you asked NFL front offices after the 2025 season to draft a quarterback for one final drive with the season on the line, Brissett would almost certainly have been selected in the bottom quarter of starters, likely around 28th–32nd. His 2025 situational statistics and Arizona’s 1–5 record in one-score fourth-quarter games support that assessment.
