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Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals are coming back into form this season, currently sitting at 6-4 with a good shout to make the playoffs. This comes on the back of them making the Super Bowl last year when they broke a longstanding drought for the franchise of not winning any playoff matches.
The central figure for this success beginning last year is Joe Burrow. He is only in his third season in the NFL and is already turning out to be a pivotal player.
But irrespective of how good he has been, how does he compare to other players who have come before him?
Joe Burrow career stats in perspective
Let us first lay out the baseline figures of Joe Burrow to date. He had an injury-plagued first season but he still played 10 games that season. He has over 10,000 passing yards, having played 36 games in his NFL career. He has an average of 283 passing yards per game. He also has 69 passing touchdowns, which is equivalent to nearly two passing touchdowns per game.
He has 27 interceptions in his career so far, which means that he throws less than one interception per game. His career completion percentage is 68.4; removing his rookie season, it rose to 69.8%.
To put the above numbers into perspective, let’s look at two all-time greats and the benchmark for modern quarterbacks: Tom Brady and Peyton Manning. Their touchdown-per-game ratios are 1.94 and 2.03 respectively. We can already see Burrow performing better than Brady and just shy of Manning there.
Their passing yard averages per game are 270.5 for Manning and 266.2 for Brady. Burrow is ahead of them on both counts.
Brady has a completion percentage average of 64.2 and Manning has 65.3. Joe Burrow's stats exceed them both. Neither of those players has hit the 70 percent completion rate in any season, which Burrow achieved last season.
Among compatriots who have won the Super Bowl, we can compare Joe Burrow to Patrick Mahomes. Mahomes, of course, is in the same conference as Burrow and has much higher averages.
The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback averages 2.45 touchdowns per game and 304.9 passing yards per game in his career. Both are higher than Burrow's. But what Burrow has over Mahomes is that he beat him in an AFC Championship game last year when it mattered the most.
Taking all of these different factors into account, we can confidently say that Joe Burrow is on his way to becoming a world-beater. He is not there yet as he still needs to win an NFL MVP award or a Super Bowl.
Also, the likes of Manning and Brady have done it continuously for a very long time, which is something Burrow has not yet had the time to achieve. But if he keeps up his output, one could certainly see him join that exalted company when he is all done.
