Guys, gals, and nonbinary pals, Adam Steele is back with his quarterback recap. And we thank him for it.

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I’m going to keep the commentary short and sweet today, so here are the week seven rankings:

#	QB Week 7	DYAR	QBR	zDYAR	zQBR	zAvg
1	Matthew Stafford	122	85.8	1.58	1.41	1.50
2	Tom Brady	87	93.1	1.09	1.68	1.38
3	Joe Burrow	120	79.7	1.56	1.18	1.37
4	Derek Carr	112	77.6	1.44	1.10	1.27
5	Aaron Rodgers	86	76.7	1.07	1.07	1.07
6	Ryan Tannehill	54	87.8	0.62	1.48	1.05
7	Mac Jones	82	68.4	1.02	0.76	0.89
8	Carson Wentz	35	82.7	0.35	1.29	0.82
9	Jalen Hurts	39	58.5	0.41	0.39	0.40
10	Chad Henne	18	62.4	0.11	0.53	0.32
11	Kyler Murray	46	48.1	0.50	0.00	0.25
12	Tua Tagovailoa	14	58.4	0.05	0.38	0.22
13	Case Keenum	44	46.6	0.48	-0.06	0.21
14	Jameis Winston	25	46.2	0.21	-0.07	0.07
15	Lamar Jackson	22	46.7	0.16	-0.05	0.06
16	Matt Ryan	10	47.4	-0.01	-0.03	-0.02
17	Teddy Bridgewater	31	34.7	0.29	-0.50	-0.10
18	Daniel Jones	6	43.0	-0.06	-0.19	-0.13
19	Mike White	-28	47.2	-0.55	-0.03	-0.29
20	Jared Goff	-14	39.5	-0.35	-0.32	-0.33
21	Taylor Heinicke	-11	32.3	-0.30	-0.59	-0.45
22	Geno Smith	-24	26.9	-0.49	-0.79	-0.64
23	Davis Mills	-45	27.6	-0.79	-0.76	-0.78
24	P.J. Walker	-66	2.8	-1.09	-1.69	-1.39
25	Sam Darnold	-98	10.7	-1.54	-1.39	-1.47
26	Patrick Mahomes	-98	6.0	-1.54	-1.57	-1.55
27	Jimmy Garoppolo	-121	7.7	-1.87	-1.51	-1.69
28	Justin Fields	-155	1.9	-2.35	-1.72	-2.04

From now on I’m also going to post the updated season scores using my methodology. Since DYAR is a counting stat, quarterbacks who’ve already had their bye week will have their totals prorated to seven games.

#	QB Season	DYAR	QBR	zDYAR	zQBR	zAvg
1	Matthew Stafford	825	78.6	1.93	1.95	1.94
2	Tom Brady	799	69.4	1.85	1.28	1.56
3	Dak Prescott	816	57.0	1.90	0.38	1.14
4	Kyler Murray	608	65.0	1.27	0.96	1.11
5	Aaron Rodgers	470	66.3	0.85	1.05	0.95
6	Patrick Mahomes	437	63.9	0.75	0.88	0.82
7	Josh Allen	390	64.5	0.61	0.92	0.77
8	Derek Carr	446	60.9	0.78	0.66	0.72
9	Kirk Cousins	534	56.3	1.05	0.33	0.69
10	Russell Wilson	318	62.5	0.39	0.78	0.59
11	Justin Herbert	319	61.1	0.39	0.68	0.54
12	Lamar Jackson	269	60.3	0.24	0.62	0.43
13	Joe Burrow	184	59.5	-0.01	0.56	0.27
14	Carson Wentz	159	58.7	-0.09	0.50	0.21
15	Jameis Winston	168	58.3	-0.06	0.47	0.21
16	Ryan Tannehill	45	61.7	-0.43	0.72	0.14
17	Teddy Bridgewater	285	50.3	0.29	-0.11	0.09
18	Matt Ryan	144	53.3	-0.14	0.11	-0.01
19	Mac Jones	83	53.5	-0.32	0.13	-0.10
20	Jacoby Brissett	-68	58.1	-0.78	0.46	-0.16
21	Baker Mayfield	222	41.6	0.10	-0.74	-0.32
22	Daniel Jones	15	46.9	-0.52	-0.35	-0.44
23	Ben Roethlisberger	118	42.1	-0.21	-0.70	-0.46
24	Taylor Heinicke	47	45.0	-0.43	-0.49	-0.46
25	Jalen Hurts	86	38.8	-0.31	-0.94	-0.63
26	Jimmy Garoppolo	40	38.1	-0.45	-0.99	-0.72
27	Jared Goff	-15	33.0	-0.62	-1.36	-0.99
28	Trevor Lawrence	-175	36.6	-1.10	-1.10	-1.10
29	Sam Darnold	-321	41.9	-1.54	-0.72	-1.13
30	Davis Mills	-242	32.2	-1.30	-1.42	-1.36
31	Zach Wilson	-530	24.5	-2.17	-1.98	-2.08
32	Justin Fields	-448	16.7	-1.93	-2.54	-2.23

Matthew Stafford ranks first in both DYAR and QBR and has a sizable lead over the league overall. Meanwhile, Jared Goff languishes way down in 27th. Of course Stafford may regress as the season goes on, but so far it looks as though the Rams were the clear winners in their trade with Detroit.

Quarterbacks who score significantly better in DYAR than QBR include Dak Prescott, Kirk Cousins, Baker Mayfield, Jalen Hurts, and Jared Goff.

Signal callers who are strongly favored by QBR include Joe Burrow, Carson Wentz, Jameis Winston, Ryan Tannehill, Jacoby Brissett, and Sam Darnold.

There doesn’t seem to be a discernable pattern in which type of QB is favored by each metric. What stands out to you?