What Is a Good NFL Passer Rating? Answered with every NFL season in our data, 2016-2026

In 2025, NFL teams had a passer rating of 91.4 overall. Among the 33 qualified quarterbacks the median was 92.9, the top quarter reached 100.2 or better and the top tenth 103.8 or better. So a good passer rating is about 100.2 or higher, and an elite one 103.8 or higher.

Passer rating is the NFL's official formula (completion percentage, yards per attempt, touchdown rate and interception rate, each capped, scaled so a perfect game is 158.3). It rewards touchdowns and avoids interceptions, but it ignores sacks, down and distance and the difficulty of each throw, which is why we rank quarterbacks by EPA per dropback.

Passer Rating by Season

Season	All NFL teams	Median QB	Top quarter	Top tenth	Qualified QBs
2016	89.3	91.5	96.7	104.2	30
2017	86.9	87.9	96.0	101.9	32
2018	92.9	94.2	100.4	108.1	33
2019	90.4	89.8	100.8	107.4	32
2020	93.6	94.3	102.2	107.2	35
2021	90.8	92.2	100.6	103.1	31
2022	89.1	91.1	95.2	101.5	33
2023	89.0	92.2	97.9	102.7	32
2024	92.3	93.3	101.0	106.8	36
2025	91.4	92.9	100.2	103.8	33
2026 (in progress)	91.3	91.2	100.5	106.4	31

Qualified quarterbacks only (the minimum attempts for each season are on the NFL Passer Rating leaderboard). All NFL teams in our data, 2016-2026. The 2026 season is included through Week 9.

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