Throwaway Rate Leaders
Throwaway Rate — 2023 NFL leaders, updated Oct 2, 2026. Bryce Young (CAR) led the league in throwaway rate at 7.0%, ahead of 28 other qualifying players. Based on verified play-level charting from FTN Data via nflverse, regular season only. Through the 2023 season.
Throwaway rate is the share of a quarterback's dropbacks that FTN's charters marked as a deliberate throwaway — a ball thrown out of bounds or into the ground to avoid a sack or a turnover. Rank 1 threw the ball away most often. That can be discipline or it can be a play that never opened, and the board cannot say which; it counts the decision, not the reason. 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.
| # | Player | TA% | TA | DB | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bryce Young | 7.0% | 41 | 588 | |
| 2 | Jalen Hurts | 6.8% | 39 | 574 | |
| 3 | Justin Fields | 6.0% | 25 | 414 | |
| 4 | Sam Howell | 5.3% | 36 | 677 | |
| 5 | Gardner Minshew | 5.2% | 27 | 524 | |
| 6 | Josh Allen | 5.2% | 31 | 601 | |
| 7 | Russell Wilson | 5.1% | 25 | 488 | |
| 8 | Zach Wilson | 5.1% | 21 | 411 | |
| 9 | Patrick Mahomes | 4.7% | 29 | 622 | |
| 10 | Geno Smith | 4.4% | 23 | 526 | |
| 11 | C.J. Stroud | 4.3% | 23 | 531 | |
| 12 | Kenny Pickett | 4.3% | 15 | 346 | |
| 13 | Matthew Stafford | 4.2% | 23 | 548 | |
| 14 | Aidan O'Connell | 4.1% | 15 | 366 | |
| 15 | Joshua Dobbs | 3.8% | 17 | 447 | |
| 16 | Justin Herbert | 3.7% | 18 | 485 | |
| 17 | Brock Purdy | 3.6% | 17 | 469 | |
| 18 | Derek Carr | 3.6% | 21 | 579 | |
| 19 | Jared Goff | 3.6% | 23 | 631 | |
| 20 | Jordan Love | 3.1% | 19 | 607 | |
| 21 | Baker Mayfield | 2.6% | 16 | 606 | |
| 22 | Desmond Ridder | 2.6% | 11 | 417 | |
| 23 | Joe Burrow | 2.6% | 10 | 388 | |
| 24 | Mac Jones | 2.5% | 9 | 367 | |
| 25 | Lamar Jackson | 2.4% | 12 | 493 | |
| 26 | Trevor Lawrence | 2.3% | 14 | 599 | |
| 27 | Kirk Cousins | 2.1% | 7 | 326 | |
| 28 | Tua Tagovailoa | 2.0% | 12 | 587 | |
| 29 | Dak Prescott | 1.7% | 11 | 629 |
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