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QB · 6′0″ 209 lb · Born 1979-01-15 · College: Purdue · Played 2001–2020 · Drafted 2001 round 2, pick 32 by San Diego Chargers ·

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Passing

Year	Team	Pos	G	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Rate	Sk
2001	SDG	QB	1	15	27	221	1	0	94.8	2
2002	SDG	QB	16	320	526	3284	17	16	76.9	24
2003	SDG	QB	11	205	356	2108	11	15	67.5	21
2004	SDG	QB	15	262	400	3159	27	7	104.8	17
2005	SDG	QB	16	323	500	3576	24	15	89.2	27
2006	NOR	QB	16	357	555	4424	26	11	96.3	18
2007	NOR	QB	16	443	655	4428	28	18	89.4	15
2008	NOR	QB	16	413	635	5069	34	17	96.2	13
2009	NOR	QB	15	363	514	4388	34	11	109.6	20
2010	NOR	QB	16	448	658	4620	33	22	90.9	26
2011	NOR	QB	16	471	660	5535	46	14	110.9	24
2012	NOR	QB	16	422	670	5177	43	19	96.3	26
2013	NOR	QB	16	446	650	5162	39	12	104.7	37
2014	NOR	QB	16	456	659	4952	33	17	97.0	29
2015	NOR	QB	15	428	627	4870	32	11	101.0	31
2016	NOR	QB	16	471	673	5208	37	15	101.7	27
2017	NOR	QB	16	386	536	4334	23	8	103.9	20
2018	NOR	QB	15	364	489	3992	32	5	115.7	17
2019	NOR	QB	11	281	378	2979	27	4	116.3	12
2020	NOR	QB	12	275	390	2942	24	6	106.4	13
Total			287	7149	10558	80428	571	243	98.7	419

Rushing

Year	Team	Pos	G	Rush	Yds	TD	Y/C	Fum	FL
2001	SDG	QB	1	2	18	0	9.0	2	0
2002	SDG	QB	16	38	130	1	3.4	2	0
2003	SDG	QB	11	21	84	0	4.0	5	3
2004	SDG	QB	15	53	85	2	1.6	6	1
2005	SDG	QB	16	21	49	1	2.3	8	5
2006	NOR	QB	16	41	32	0	0.8	8	3
2007	NOR	QB	16	24	52	1	2.2	10	4
2008	NOR	QB	16	22	-1	0	-0.1	6	1
2009	NOR	QB	15	22	33	2	1.5	10	6
2010	NOR	QB	16	18	-3	0	-0.2	9	2
2011	NOR	QB	16	21	86	1	4.1	1	1
2012	NOR	QB	16	15	5	1	0.3	5	1
2013	NOR	QB	16	35	52	3	1.5	6	2
2014	NOR	QB	16	27	68	1	2.5	7	3
2015	NOR	QB	15	24	14	1	0.6	5	2
2016	NOR	QB	16	23	20	2	0.9	5	4
2017	NOR	QB	16	33	12	2	0.4	5	0
2018	NOR	QB	15	31	22	4	0.7	5	1
2019	NOR	QB	11	9	-4	1	-0.4	0	0
2020	NOR	QB	12	18	-2	2	-0.1	6	2
Total			287	498	752	25	1.5	111	41

Receiving

Year	Team	Pos	G	Tgt	Rec	Yds	TD	Y/R
2003	SDG	QB	11	0	1	21	1	21.0
2004	SDG	QB	15	0	1	38	0	38.0
2007	NOR	QB	16	0	2	10	0	5.0
2009	NOR	QB	15	1	1	-4	0	-4.0
2010	NOR	QB	16	1	1	7	0	7.0
2014	NOR	QB	16	1	1	1	0	1.0
2018	NOR	QB	15	1	1	1	0	1.0
Total			104	4	8	74	1	9.2

Teams

Year	Team	Pos	#
2001	San Diego Chargers	QB	9
2002	San Diego Chargers	QB	9
2003	San Diego Chargers	QB	9
2004	San Diego Chargers	QB	9
2005	San Diego Chargers	QB	9
2006	New Orleans Saints	QB	9
2007	New Orleans Saints	QB	9
2008	New Orleans Saints	QB	9
2009	New Orleans Saints	QB	9
2010	New Orleans Saints	QB	9
2011	New Orleans Saints	QB	9
2012	New Orleans Saints	QB	9
2013	New Orleans Saints	QB	9
2014	New Orleans Saints	QB	9
2015	New Orleans Saints	QB	9
2016	New Orleans Saints	QB	9
2017	New Orleans Saints	QB	9
2018	New Orleans Saints	QB	9
2019	New Orleans Saints	QB	9
2020	New Orleans Saints	QB	9
2021	New Orleans Saints	QB	9

Awards

Year	Award	Team
2004	Comeback Player of the Year
2006	Walter Payton Man of the Year	New Orleans Saints
2008	Offensive Player of the Year	New Orleans Saints
2009	Super Bowl MVP	New Orleans Saints
2011	Offensive Player of the Year	New Orleans Saints

League leader

Year	Category	Value
2006	passing yards	4,418
2008	passing yards	5,069
2008	passing tds	34
2009	passing tds	34
2011	passing yards	5,476
2011	passing tds	46
2012	passing yards	5,177
2012	passing tds	43
2014	passing yards	4,952
2015	passing yards	4,870
2016	passing yards	5,208

Next Gen Stats

Passing

Year	Team	Att	TT	IAY	CAY	AYTS	AGG%	Cmp%	xCmp%	CPOE	LCAD	Rate
2016	NOR	673	2.42	7.6	6.2	-1.0	17.5%	70.0%	64.8%	+5.2	52.2	101.7
2017	NOR	535	2.58	6.3	4.8	-2.5	16.6%	72.1%	68.9%	+3.3	54.1	104.9
2018	NOR	489	2.59	7.1	5.9	-1.6	15.5%	74.4%	67.3%	+7.2	45.5	115.7
2019	NOR	378	2.57	6.7	5.2	-2.0	13.8%	74.3%	67.7%	+6.7	42.8	116.3
2020	NOR	390	2.66	6.3	5.4	-2.3	12.3%	70.5%	69.0%	+1.5	50.8	106.4

NFL player-tracking summaries (regular season, 2016 on). Hover a column heading for its meaning.

Advanced stats

Passing

Year	Team	Att	Pkt	Prs	Prs%	Blitz	Hurry	Hit	BadTh	BadTh%	OnTgt%	Drops	Drop%	ThAwy	PA att	RPO
2018	NOR	489	2.4	84	16.5%	137	43	24	49	10.3%		22	4.6%	13
2019	NOR	378	2.3	54	13.8%	114	25	17	39	10.7%	84.1%	13	3.6%	9	53	2
2020	NOR	390	2.4	59	14.6%	92	13	33	51	13.4%	80.8%	21	5.5%	7	55	5

Rushing

Year	Team	G	Att	Yds	TD	1D	YBC	YBC/A	YAC	YAC/A	BrkTkl	Att/Br
2018	NOR	15	31	22	4	11	17	0.5	5	0.2	1	31.0
2019	NOR	11	9	-4	1	2	-4	-0.4	0	0.0	0
2020	NOR	12	18	-2	2	4	-6	-0.3	4	0.2	0

Receiving

Year	Team	G	Tgt	Rec	Yds	TD	1D	ADOT	YBC	YBC/R	YAC	YAC/R	BrkTkl	Drops	Drop%	Int	Rat
2018	NOR	15	1	1	1	0	0	-2.0	-2	-2.0	3	3.0	0	0	0.0%	0	79.2

Pro Football Reference advanced statistics (2018 on), via nflverse.

Total QBR

Year	Team	Rk	QBR	Pts added	Plays	EPA	Pass	Run	Sack	Pen
2006	NOR	5	66.7	36.7	631	64.2	61.0	-5.2	-7.7	0.6
2006 (post)	NOR	3	68.7	3.1	92	7.5	6.2	-0.5	-2.7	-0.9
2007	NOR	8	64.6	39.7	718	66.0	56.7	0.7	-6.4	2.1
2008	NOR	7	65.7	32.6	701	68.8	64.4	-2.5	-6.5	0.5
2009	NOR	1	82.0	66.3	582	103.5	88.4	4.7	-7.6	2.8
2009 (post)	NOR	3	87.9	16.3	112	23.5	21.6	0.0	-1.2	0.7
2010	NOR	4	70.8	45.0	726	91.9	80.3	-1.2	-12.0	0.8
2010 (post)	NOR	2	70.5	3.3	66	7.5	8.0	-1.2	-0.6	0.1
2011	NOR	2	82.3	82.7	738	120.2	109.3	1.3	-8.7	0.9
2011 (post)	NOR	3	84.5	13.5	121	21.7	17.1	0.8	-2.5	1.3
2012	NOR	8	66.8	41.3	742	84.5	73.9	-0.9	-11.6	-0.1
2013	NOR	5	69.1	43.4	760	90.8	71.0	2.8	-17.3	-0.3
2013 (post)	NOR	11	50.4	-2.5	88	4.2	3.6	0.6	-0.8	-0.7
2014	NOR	4	73.2	56.8	739	106.5	86.2	4.9	-11.8	3.5
2015	NOR	7	66.8	43.8	715	93.6	77.9	1.7	-12.9	1.2
2016	NOR	5	66.8	33.6	760	96.5	84.4	1.6	-10.1	0.4
2017	NOR	9	63.1	26.4	596	68.5	67.0	1.0	-9.5	0.6
2017 (post)	NOR	3	81.9	6.8	78	12.7	12.5	0.1	-1.2	0.1
2018	NOR	2	79.2	56.1	562	100.5	80.2	5.4	-8.7	6.2
2018 (post)	NOR	7	57.6	2.7	89	11.1	8.6	-0.1	-1.6	0.9
2019	NOR	3	73.3	33.7	419	62.6	53.1	1.6	-6.0	1.9
2019 (post)	NOR	7	49.3	0.4	38	3.9	1.7	0.2	-2.0	-0.1
2020	NOR	6	68.3	27.1	428	66.2	62.5	1.0	-6.2	2.8
2020 (post)	NOR	12	37.5	-2.7	89	6.7	7.7	-1.8	0.0	0.8

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
2001	29	10.6	0.36	44.8%
2002	553	5.3	0.01	43.0%
2003	374	-58.2	-0.16	36.4%
2004	460	139.6	0.30	50.0%
2005	524	65.1	0.12	46.4%
2006	660	128.8	0.20	48.3%	+0.8
2007	669	53.6	0.08	51.4%	+4.7
2008	643	161.5	0.25	52.1%	+2.8
2009	638	194.6	0.31	54.2%	+7.4
2010	740	100.8	0.14	49.7%	+5.9
2011	794	268.4	0.34	55.2%	+7.1
2012	693	115.4	0.17	50.4%	+1.0
2013	761	152.3	0.20	50.1%	+4.7
2014	683	102.3	0.15	50.2%	+3.4
2015	657	104.7	0.16	46.6%	+2.0
2016	695	112.4	0.16	51.4%	+4.2
2017	629	129.6	0.21	50.9%	+4.5
2018	589	169.0	0.29	54.2%	+6.0
2019	422	78.7	0.19	52.8%	+6.2
2020	475	64.4	0.14	49.1%	+0.4

As rusher

Year	Carries	EPA	EPA/carry	Success
2001	2	-0.6	-0.32	50.0%
2002	33	6.0	0.18	48.5%
2003	19	0.9	0.05	52.6%
2004	43	-0.5	-0.01	55.8%
2005	18	7.4	0.41	72.2%
2006	18	-7.7	-0.43	38.9%
2007	15	3.0	0.20	46.7%
2008	12	-6.2	-0.52	41.7%
2009	11	9.8	0.89	81.8%
2010	6	-0.4	-0.07	50.0%
2011	19	-1.2	-0.06	57.9%
2012	4	1.1	0.27	50.0%
2013	21	7.9	0.37	66.7%
2014	18	5.9	0.33	55.6%
2015	8	1.9	0.24	62.5%
2016	11	6.0	0.55	54.5%
2017	17	1.9	0.11	58.8%
2018	15	15.9	1.06	86.7%
2019	3	4.3	1.43	100.0%
2020	11	-2.0	-0.18	54.5%

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

Snap counts

Year	Team	G	Off	Off%	Def%	ST%
2013	NOR	1	76	100%	0%	0%
2013	NOR	16	1111	99%	0%	0%
2013	NOR	1	72	100%	0%	0%
2014	NOR	16	1139	100%	0%	0%
2015	NOR	15	1088	100%	0%	0%
2016	NOR	16	1154	100%	0%	0%
2017	NOR	1	68	100%	0%	0%
2017	NOR	16	1032	100%	0%	0%
2017	NOR	1	58	100%	0%	0%
2018	NOR	1	66	99%	0%	0%
2018	NOR	1	76	99%	0%	0%
2018	NOR	15	979	98%	0%	0%
2019	NOR	11	635	87%	0%	0%
2019	NOR	1	54	96%	0%	0%
2020	NOR	1	62	98%	0%	0%
2020	NOR	12	717	89%	0%	0%
2020	NOR	1	73	95%	0%	0%

Games with a snap count on file (2012 on); percentages are the average share per game.

Depth chart history

Year	Team	Listed at	Weeks as starter	Weeks listed
2001	SDG	QB	0	17
2002	SDG	QB	17	17
2003	SDG	QB	17	17
2004	SDG	QB	17	17
2005	SDG	QB	16	16
2006	NOR	QB	16	16
2007	NOR	QB	18	18
2008	NOR	QB	18	18
2009	NOR	QB	18	18
2010	NOR	QB	18	18
2011	NOR	QB	18	18
2012	NOR	QB	18	18
2013	NOR	QB	18	18
2014	NOR	QB	16	16
2015	NOR	QB	17	18
2016	NOR	QB	18	18
2017	NOR	QB	18	18
2018	NOR	QB	18	18
2019	NOR	QB	16	18
2020	NOR	QB	14	14

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

Contracts

Signed	Team	Yrs	Value	Per year	Guaranteed	Cap%
2020	New Orleans Saints	2	$50.0M	$25.0M	$25.0M	12.6%
2018	New Orleans Saints	2	$50.0M	$25.0M	$27.0M	14.1%
2016	New Orleans Saints	1	$24.2M	$24.2M	$24.2M	15.6%
2012	New Orleans Saints	5	$100.0M	$20.0M	$60.5M	16.6%
2006	New Orleans Saints	5	$60.0M	$10.0M	$8.0M	9.8%
2005	Los Angeles Chargers	1	$8.1M	$8.1M	$8.1M	9.4%
2001	Los Angeles Chargers	4	$3.6M	$901,250	$1.8M	1.3%

Career contract value $295.9M (Over The Cap, via nflverse). Cap% is the average per year against that season's salary cap.

Combine

Year	Pos	School	Ht	Wt	40	Bench	Vert	Broad	3-cone	Shuttle
2001	QB	Purdue	6′0″	213	4.83		32.0	105	7.09	4.21

All of the 2001 combine →

Injury reports (23)

Year	Wk	Team	Injury	Game status	Practice
2009	3	NOR	left Shoulder	Probable	Full Participation in Practice
2010	5	NOR	Knee	Probable	Full Participation in Practice
2010	6	NOR	Knee	Probable	Full Participation in Practice
2010	7	NOR	Knee	Probable	Full Participation in Practice
2012	3	NOR	Ankle	Probable	Full Participation in Practice
2013	17	NOR	Knee	Probable	Full Participation in Practice
2015	3	NOR	right Shoulder	Out	Did Not Participate In Practice
2015	4	NOR	right Shoulder	Probable	Limited Participation in Practice
2015	16	NOR	Foot	Questionable	Limited Participation in Practice
2015	17	NOR	Foot	Probable	Limited Participation in Practice
2016	15	NOR	Not Injury Related		Limited Participation in Practice
2019	3	NOR	right Thumb	Out	Did Not Participate In Practice
2019	4	NOR	right Thumb	Out	Did Not Participate In Practice
2019	5	NOR	right Thumb	Out	Did Not Participate In Practice
2019	6	NOR	right Thumb	Out	Did Not Participate In Practice
2019	7	NOR	right Thumb	Out	Did Not Participate In Practice
2019	8	NOR	right Thumb	Questionable	Limited Participation in Practice
2019	10	NOR	right Thumb		Full Participation in Practice
2019	15	NOR	right Elbow		Full Participation in Practice
2019	17	NOR	Knee		Full Participation in Practice
2020	9	NOR	right Shoulder		Full Participation in Practice
2020	10	NOR	right Shoulder		Limited Participation in Practice
2020	11	NOR	right Shoulder		Did Not Participate In Practice

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Passing

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Teams

Awards

League leader

Next Gen Stats

Passing

Advanced stats

Passing

Rushing

Receiving

Total QBR

Expected points added

As passer (dropbacks)

As rusher

Snap counts

Contracts

Combine