How Baker Mayfield ranks among NFL QBs over the past three seasons

Completion Percentage

"Drew Brees: 73.2% Kirk Cousins: 69% Derek Carr: 68.9% Deshaun Watson: 68.7% Teddy Bridgewater: 68.5% Jimmy Garoppolo: 67.5% Philip Rivers: 67.4% Andrew Luck, Nick Foles: 67.3% Russell Wilson: 67% 37. Baker Mayfield: 61.9%"

The biggest jump Baker Mayfield has to make in year four is improving his completion percentage. If he can become more accurate with the football consistently, he can easily jolt himself up into the top-10 quarterback conversation. Mayfield’s career-best completion percentage so far in a season is 63.8%, which was his rookie year. Alone, that would place him at 31st on the list, which still is not a good mark.

Drew Brees tops this list with an insane 73.2 completion percentage, which is partly due to their offensive scheme not attacking downfield as much, but also partly due to him being, in my opinion, the most accurate quarterback of all time.

When coming out of college, I had seen a lot of similarities between Drew Brees and Baker Mayfield and thought that Baker could be like a young Brees and that if he reached his full potential, they’d be on the same level.

While it seems like I have been wrong so far in this comparison, Brees didn’t really start developing his insane accuracy until his ninth year in the NFL, when he eclipsed 70% completion percentage for the first time, also winning the super bowl that season. It pays off to be patient with quarterbacks, especially when they have elite-level potential like Brees did and Baker Mayfield has.