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Welcome to Week 4’s grades!
Week 4 of the NFL season was a big week for rookies. During the early window of games, Caleb Williams and Bo Nix both came away with wins. As for Williams, he became the first QB in the combined draft era to win his first two home runs in the same year as he was selected with the first overall pick.
Williams won the first game of his career with a Week 1 win over the Titans and then followed that up on Sunday with the Bears’ win over the Los Angeles Rams. As for the Knicks, after throwing for negative yardage in the first half against the Jets, he rebounded to throw for 60 yards in the third quarter of that game to lead Denver to the only touchdown for either team in what turned out to be a 10-9 win for the Broncos.
Jayden Daniels capped off the rookie quarterback’s big day by leading the Chiefs to a 42-14 victory over the Cardinals. In the win, Daniels completed 86.7% of his passes, making him the first quarterback in NFL history to complete at least 85% of his passes in two consecutive games. Daniels also has the leaders over .500 through four weeks for the first time since 2011.
The wins by the Broncos, Bears and Commanders mark only the third time in NFL history that three rookies have won in the same week during the first four weeks of a season. The only other times this happened was in 2012 and 2016.
There were no rookie quarterbacks on Monday night, but Jared Goff set an NFL record by completing 100% of his passes against the Seahawks. With Monday’s doubleheader concluded, all 16 games are in the books for Week 4, so let’s check out each team’s grades below.
Tennessee 31-12 over Miami (Monday) Detroit 42-29 over Seattle (Monday) Atlanta 26-24 over New Orleans Chicago 24-18 over Los Angeles Rams Minnesota 31-29 over Green Bay Indianapolis 27-24 over Pittsburgh Denver 10-9 over the New York Jets, Tampa Bay 33-16 over Philadelphia, Cincinnati 34-24 over Carolina, Houston 24-20 over Jacksonville, Washington 42-14 over Arizona, Las Vegas 20-16 over Cleveland, San Francisco 30-13 over New England, Kansas City 17-10 over the Los Angeles Chargers, Baltimore 35-10 over Buffalo, Dallas 20-15 over New York. Giants (Thursday)
