2023 season · Quarterbacks, 31 qualifiers

Catchable Throw Rate Leaders

Catchable Throw Rate — 2023 NFL leaders, updated Oct 2, 2026. Kirk Cousins (MIN) led the league in catchable throw rate at 78.6%, ahead of 30 other qualifying players. Based on verified play-level charting from FTN Data via nflverse, regular season only. Through the 2023 season.

Catchable throw rate is the share of a quarterback's pass attempts that FTN's charters judged catchable — a ball the intended receiver could reasonably have caught, whether or not he did. The base is attempts, not dropbacks, because a sack or a scramble has no ball to judge. Rank 1 is the highest rate; throwaways count as attempts and are never catchable, so a passer who throws the ball away often ranks lower than his accuracy alone would put him. In season every figure here is season to date, and before Week 4 it rests on two or three games — a gap of a few points between neighbours is noise until the sample grows.

Catchable Throw Rate, 2023 NFL season
#PlayerCatchable%CatchableAttListen
1Kirk CousinsMIN78.6%243309
2Dak PrescottDAL77.8%459590
3Patrick MahomesKC77.5%461595
4Joe BurrowCIN76.4%278364
5Tua TagovailoaMIA74.7%417558
6Russell WilsonDEN74.5%330443
7Derek CarrNO74.3%407548
8Jared GoffDET73.9%444601
9Brock PurdySF73.5%324441
10Josh AllenBUF73.5%424577
11Lamar JacksonBAL73.2%334456
12Justin HerbertLAC73.0%333456
13Mac JonesNE73.0%252345
14Jordan LoveGB72.6%419577
15Trevor LawrenceJAX72.2%407564
16Baker MayfieldTB71.4%404566
17Gardner MinshewIND71.0%348490
18Aidan O'ConnellLV70.8%242342
19Zach WilsonNYJ70.7%258365
20C.J. StroudHOU70.6%348493
21Jalen HurtsPHI70.3%378538
22Joshua DobbsMIN70.0%292417
23Kenny PickettPIT70.0%226323
24Will LevisTEN70.0%177253
25Matthew StaffordLAR69.9%362518
26Geno SmithSEA69.7%345495
27Desmond RidderATL69.4%268386
28Sam HowellWAS69.4%425612
29Kyler MurrayARI69.3%185267
30Justin FieldsCHI67.3%249370
31Bryce YoungCAR66.5%350526

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