Interception-Worthy Throw Rate
Interception-Worthy Throw Rate — 2023 NFL rankings, updated Sep 29, 2026. Mac Jones (NE) threw the league's highest rate of interception-worthy passes, on 7.1% of his dropbacks across 29 qualifying players. Based on verified play-level charting from FTN Data via nflverse, regular season only. Through the 2023 season.
An interception-worthy throw is one a charter judged should have been intercepted, whether or not anybody caught it. It describes how recklessly a quarterback threw far better than the interception column does, because an interception also requires a defender to hang on, and defenders drop a great many of them. Over a full season the two numbers converge; over a handful of games the space between them is mostly luck, and this is the half of that space the passer actually owns.
| # | Player | IW% | IW | DB | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mac Jones | 7.1% | 26 | 368 | |
| 2 | Desmond Ridder | 5.2% | 22 | 420 | |
| 3 | Joshua Dobbs | 4.9% | 22 | 450 | |
| 4 | Sam Howell | 4.7% | 32 | 679 | |
| 5 | Gardner Minshew | 4.4% | 23 | 527 | |
| 6 | Josh Allen | 4.1% | 25 | 604 | |
| 7 | Geno Smith | 3.8% | 20 | 528 | |
| 8 | Justin Herbert | 3.7% | 18 | 486 | |
| 9 | Trevor Lawrence | 3.7% | 22 | 602 | |
| 10 | Baker Mayfield | 3.6% | 22 | 609 | |
| 11 | Brock Purdy | 3.6% | 17 | 469 | |
| 12 | Justin Fields | 3.6% | 15 | 416 | |
| 13 | Tua Tagovailoa | 3.6% | 21 | 589 | |
| 14 | Jalen Hurts | 3.5% | 20 | 575 | |
| 15 | Kenny Pickett | 3.5% | 12 | 347 | |
| 16 | Bryce Young | 3.4% | 20 | 589 | |
| 17 | Patrick Mahomes | 3.4% | 21 | 622 | |
| 18 | Aidan O'Connell | 3.3% | 12 | 367 | |
| 19 | Jordan Love | 3.3% | 20 | 609 | |
| 20 | Russell Wilson | 3.3% | 16 | 491 | |
| 21 | C.J. Stroud | 3.0% | 16 | 534 | |
| 22 | Jared Goff | 2.8% | 18 | 636 | |
| 23 | Joe Burrow | 2.8% | 11 | 388 | |
| 24 | Lamar Jackson | 2.6% | 13 | 494 | |
| 25 | Dak Prescott | 2.5% | 16 | 631 | |
| 26 | Kirk Cousins | 2.5% | 8 | 326 | |
| 27 | Matthew Stafford | 2.4% | 13 | 551 | |
| 28 | Derek Carr | 1.9% | 11 | 581 | |
| 29 | Zach Wilson | 1.9% | 8 | 413 |
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