This day in football · September 16, 1923: Ironwood Legion visited the Duluth Kelleys at Duluth Athletic Park. Duluth Kelleys 7, Ironwood Legion 0. W1923 NFL season↗

From the vault · December 26, 1964 · 1964 AFL Championship Game: The Buffalo Bills beat the San Diego Chargers 20–7 at War Memorial Stadium to win the 1964 AFL championship. Box score

Drew BledsoeWWikipedia↗

QB · 6′5″ 238 lb · Born 1972-02-14 · College: Washington State · Played 1993–2006 · Drafted 1993 round 1, pick 1 by New England Patriots ·

IDs

ESPN=393, NFLVERSE=00-0001361, NFLVERSE=BLE195074, PFR=BledDr00

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Passing

Year	Team	Pos	G	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Rate	Sk
1999	NWE	QB	16	305	537	3985	19	21	75.8	55
2000	NWE	QB	16	312	531	3291	17	13	77.3	45
2001	NWE	QB	2	40	66	400	2	2	75.3	5
2002	BUF	QB	16	375	610	4359	24	15	86.0	54
2003	BUF	QB	16	274	471	2860	11	12	73.0	49
2004	BUF	QB	16	256	449	2932	20	16	76.8	38
2005	DAL	QB	16	300	499	3639	23	17	83.7	49
2006	DAL	QB	6	90	169	1164	7	8	69.2	16
Total			104	1952	3332	22630	123	104	78.5	311

Rushing

Year	Team	Pos	G	Rush	Yds	TD	Y/C	Fum	FL
1999	NWE	QB	16	42	101	0	2.4	7	3
2000	NWE	QB	16	47	158	2	3.4	9	4
2001	NWE	QB	2	5	18	0	3.6	1	0
2002	BUF	QB	16	27	67	2	2.5	11	4
2003	BUF	QB	16	23	29	2	1.3	14	9
2004	BUF	QB	16	20	52	0	2.6	9	5
2005	DAL	QB	16	34	50	2	1.5	17	8
2006	DAL	QB	6	8	28	2	3.5	3	1
Total			104	206	503	10	2.4	71	34

Teams

Year	Team	Pos	#
1993	New England Patriots	QB	11
1994	New England Patriots	QB	11
1995	New England Patriots	QB	11
1996	New England Patriots	QB	11
1997	New England Patriots	QB	11
1998	New England Patriots	QB	11
1999	New England Patriots	QB	11
2000	New England Patriots	QB	11
2001	New England Patriots	QB	11
2002	Buffalo Bills	QB	11
2003	Buffalo Bills	QB	11
2004	Buffalo Bills	QB	11
2005	Dallas Cowboys	QB	11
2006	Dallas Cowboys	QB	11

League leader

Year	Category	Value
1994	passing yards	4,555

Total QBR

Year	Team	Rk	QBR	Pts added	Plays	EPA	Pass	Run	Sack	Pen	Exp sack
2006	DAL		46.1	1.0	211	12.2	1.7	3.1	-6.5	0.9	0.0

ESPN Total QBR (2006 on). Rank is among qualifying quarterbacks that season.

Expected points added

As passer (dropbacks)

Year	Dropbacks	EPA	EPA/db	Success	CPOE
1999	590	-28.0	-0.05	41.0%
2000	572	-10.5	-0.02	42.0%
2001	94	-3.9	-0.04	38.3%
2002	666	56.8	0.09	47.3%
2003	521	-65.9	-0.13	39.3%
2004	477	-14.0	-0.03	43.0%
2005	545	50.3	0.09	44.8%
2006	185	-9.1	-0.05	40.5%	-3.7

As rusher

Year	Carries	EPA	EPA/carry	Success
1999	27	1.7	0.06	51.9%
2000	47	-6.6	-0.14	40.4%
2001	9	-4.5	-0.50	22.2%
2002	23	8.1	0.35	65.2%
2003	16	-14.0	-0.87	37.5%
2004	15	-14.2	-0.95	46.7%
2005	27	-14.6	-0.54	44.4%
2006	7	5.2	0.74	85.7%

From every play since 1999 (nflfastR EPA model). Success = share of plays with positive EPA.

Depth chart history

Year	Team	Listed at	Weeks as starter	Weeks listed
2001	NWE	QB	2	2
2002	BUF	QB	17	17
2003	BUF	QB	17	17
2004	BUF	QB	17	17
2005	DAL	QB	16	16
2006	DAL	QB	7	16

Regular-season depth charts (2001 on). A starter is a first-string listing that week.

Contracts

Signed	Team	Yrs	Value	Per year	Guaranteed	Cap%
2005	Dallas Cowboys	3	$13.5M	$4.5M	$3.5M	5.3%
2004	Buffalo Bills	3	$18.5M	$6.2M	$6.5M	7.7%
2001	NE/BUF	9	$95.4M	$10.6M	$14.0M	15.7%
1995	New England Patriots	6	$40.5M	$6.7M	$12.9M	18.2%
1993	New England Patriots	3	$8.3M	$2.8M	$4.5M	0.0%

Career contract value $176.2M (Over The Cap, via nflverse). Cap% is the average per year against that season's salary cap.

Traded

Date	From	To
2002-04-22	New England Patriots	Buffalo Bills	details

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