Is Jared Goff playing this week?
No injury designationJared Goff has no injury designation on the latest injury reports for the week 4 game at the Carolina Panthers.
Kickoff: Sun, Oct 4 · 8:20 PM ET.
Checked Oct 3, 7:21 PM ET against the ESPN injury report and the NFL's official weekly report (via nflverse). Injury news can change up to kickoff, so confirm with the team close to game time.
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Fantasy football · Week 4
Our own start/sit calls for every player, with a projected score, the range of likely outcomes and the reasons spelled out. Built from usage, matchup, Vegas lines and injuries. How we rank
Must start. DET's offense is expected to score about 27 points, a strong scoring spot.
Why we say must start
- Projected 19.6 points, #4 among QBs this week, inside the top 6 we call must-starts.
- DET's offense is expected to score about 27 points, a strong scoring spot.
- Averaging 36 pass attempts a game.
Recent form
Dashed line: the usual 15.6 a game
This week's matchup
- Expected team score
- ~27 pts
- Vegas line
- DET favored by 3.5
- Game total
- 50.5
- CAR vs QBs
- 8% fewer points
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Age
31
Height
6'4"
Weight
217 lb
College
California
Experience
10 seasons
Draft
2016 · Pick #1 (LAR)
Status
ACT
Grade Breakdown
What do these mean?Why 72.2?
Goff's 70.4 grade is driven mainly by strong EPA per dropback (+0.298, 8th of 37), even against tougher-than-average defenses. Everything else, completion percentage, success rate, and win probability added, was roughly average and didn't move the needle much. A rocky week 1 dragged early plays down before he improved.
Lifting the grade
- EPA per dropback ranks 8th of 37 QBs, the main driver of the grade
- Deep touchdown pass to St. Brown for 27 yards in week 2 vs Buffalo (+3.5 expected points)
- 49-yard completion to TeSlaa in week 3 vs the Jets (+3.1 expected points)
Holding it back
- A short pass to Gibbs in week 1 vs New Orleans lost 5.2 expected points after a challenged non-down ruling
- A fumble on a sack in week 2 vs Buffalo cost 2.5 expected points
- A sack in week 3 vs the Jets cost another 2.5 expected points
Written by StatGrades AI from this season's play-by-play through week 3. It explains what happened; a grade isn't a forecast (what grades do and don't predict).
EPA / play
0.271
Success rate
53%
WPA (sum)
0.65
Opponent adj.
0.026
Plays graded
116
Advanced stats
2026 season through Week 3 · tracking data from NFL Next Gen Stats| Week | Time to throw | Aggressiveness | CPOE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2.66s | 15.4% | -3.2% |
| 2 | 2.94s | 28.9% | +6.7% |
| 3 | 2.89s | 21.9% | +8.7% |
What do these mean?
- Time to throw:
- Average seconds from snap to release.
- Aggressiveness:
- Share of throws into tight coverage, with a defender within one yard of the receiver.
- CPOE:
- Completion percentage over expected. Compares actual completions to what the difficulty of each throw predicts.
- Expected comp %:
- The completion percentage the throws would be expected to produce.
- Completed air yds:
- Average distance the ball travels in the air on completions.
- Intended air yds:
- Average distance the ball travels in the air on all attempts.
- Air yds differential:
- Completed air yards minus intended air yards. Negative means completions come shorter than the throws attempted.
- Air yds to sticks:
- How far the average throw travels past (or short of) the first-down marker.
Next Gen Stats data via nflverse (CC BY 4.0). Updated after games are final, not live, and covers QB, RB, WR and TE.