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QB Brutality Tracker
Live season-long log of quarterback hits, hurries, sacks, and cumulative punishment. Built to quantify how much contact every NFL quarterback absorbs, week by week.
What this tracker will show
This placeholder page outlines the structure of the upcoming QB Brutality Tracker. When live, it will surface consistent, league-wide data on quarterback contact, using standard play-by-play and tracking inputs.
- Hit volume and pressure rates by quarterback and team
- Season-to-date contact index combining hits, hurries, and sacks
- Game-by-game punishment trends over the schedule
- Offensive line and protection context for each quarterback
Status
The QB Brutality Tracker is not yet live. Data ingestion and validation are in progress. Once testing is complete, this page will update to a live dashboard view.
Target go-live: within the current regular season, pending stable tracking across all games and teams.
Planned metrics
All metrics are designed to be repeatable, transparent, and grounded in official play-by-play and charting data. Definitions may be refined before launch, but the core framework will remain consistent.
Contact events
- QB Hits: Officially recorded hits on the passer.
- Sacks: Quarterback takedowns behind the line of scrimmage.
- Pressures / Hurries: Plays where the quarterback is forced off spot or to accelerate the throw.
Derived indices
- Brutality Index: Composite score combining hits, sacks, and pressures per dropback.
- Season Load: Cumulative contact profile across all weeks played.
- Game Stress Level: Single-game measure of contact relative to league baseline.
Sample season table (placeholder)
This table is a non-functional example of how season-level quarterback contact data will be organized. Values here are placeholders only and do not represent real statistics.
| QB | Team | Dropbacks | QB Hits | Sacks | Pressures | Brutality Index* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QB A | Example Team | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| QB B | Example Team | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| QB C | Example Team | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Methodology notes
The QB Brutality Tracker will rely on clear, documented definitions for each event type. All numbers will be reproducible from public or partner data sources, and calculation steps will be described so that readers can understand how each value is derived.
- Event definitions aligned with standard NFL stat providers.
- Game-level audits to check for missing or inconsistent contact events.
- Versioned methodology so changes over time are transparent.
While you wait
Until the QB Brutality Tracker is live, you can continue to explore existing quarterback and team pages on Just Football Facts for passing efficiency, sack rates, and pressure data where available.
When this tracker launches, it will integrate with those pages so that contact data, production, and efficiency can be evaluated together.
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