Is Joe Burrow playing this week?
No injury designationJoe Burrow has no injury designation on the latest injury reports for the week 4 game against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Kickoff: Sun, Oct 4 · 1:00 PM ET.
Checked Oct 3, 7:19 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
Bench. JAX's defense has allowed 12% fewer points to QBs than the league average.
Why we say bench
- Projected 15.8 points, #14 among QBs this week, 0.2 points behind #12, the last one we'd start.
- JAX's defense has allowed 12% fewer points to QBs than the league average.
- Upside: Scored 22.6 points last game against a typical 13.4 (trending up).
- Averaging 34 pass attempts a game.
Recent form
Dashed line: the usual 13.4 a game
This week's matchup
- Expected team score
- ~27 pts
- Vegas line
- CIN favored by 2.5
- Game total
- 51.5
- JAX vs QBs
- 12% fewer points
All week 4 quarterback rankings →Start or sit tool →How our past calls did →
Age
29
Height
6'4"
Weight
216 lb
College
LSU; Ohio State
Experience
6 seasons
Draft
2020 · Pick #1 (CIN)
Status
ACT
Grade Breakdown
What do these mean?Why 50.0?
A middle-of-the-pack grade, 14th of 27 QBs, because nothing separated him from the average QB. His efficiency numbers all landed near the middle, and his game grades swung from 18.3 in week 2 to 89.1 in week 3. That is only 110 dropbacks over 3 games, a small sample.
Lifting the grade
- Week 3 vs PIT: a 25-yard touchdown pass to Gesicki on 4th and 2 (+4.9 expected points).
- Week 3 vs PIT: a 28-yard touchdown pass to Higgins (+4.8 expected points).
- Faced tougher-than-average defenses, so the grade credits him 0.034 expected points per play.
Holding it back
- Week 1 vs TB: intercepted on 3rd and 5 on a pass intended for Iosivas (-7.5 expected points).
- Week 3 vs PIT: sacked and fumbled by Harmon, recovered by PIT (-4.1 expected points).
- Week 1 vs TB: sacked for -9 yards on 3rd and 7 (-2.8 expected points).
Written by StatGrades AI from this season's play-by-play through week 4. It explains what happened; a grade isn't a forecast (what grades do and don't predict).
EPA / play
0.104
Success rate
45%
WPA (sum)
0.33
Opponent adj.
0.034
Plays graded
110
Advanced stats
2026 season through Week 3 · tracking data from NFL Next Gen Stats| Week | Time to throw | Aggressiveness | CPOE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2.54s | 14.3% | +5.2% |
| 2 | 2.48s | 9.7% | -4.9% |
| 3 | 2.58s | 10.8% | +6.2% |
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.