Chad Pennington

QB · NYJ/MIA · 2000–2010

Born June 26, 1976 · College Marshall · Drafted 2000, round 1, pick 18 (NYJ) · 6-3, 225 lb

Comeback Player of the Year ×2 (2006, 2008)

EPA per dropback by season

Filled dot: stabilised, with its 90% interval. Ring: the raw season rate.

Passing

Season	Team	G	Cmp	Att	Cmp %	Yds	TD	INT	Dropbacks	EPA/db	Stabilised EPA/db	WPA/db (WP pts)	Total WPA (wins)	CPOE	Success %	ANY/A	Rank (EPA/db)
2000	NYJ	1	2	5	40.0	67	1	0	7	+1.040	−0.102−0.238 to +0.034	−0.00	−0.00	–	42.9	13.83	–
2001	NYJ	2	10	20	50.0	92	1	0	24	−0.120	−0.152−0.286 to −0.019	−0.00	−0.00	–	41.7	4.95	–
2002	NYJ	15	275	399	68.9	3,120	22	6	444	+0.265	+0.159+0.064 to +0.254	+0.56	+2.30	–	50.0	7.49	1
2002 playoffs	NYJ	2	40	72	55.6	405	4	2	80	+0.072		+0.02	+0.02	–	46.2	4.78	6
2003	NYJ	10	189	297	63.6	2,139	13	12	340	+0.082	+0.028−0.074 to +0.130	+0.22	+0.74	–	45.3	5.33	12
2004	NYJ	13	242	370	65.4	2,673	16	9	424	+0.069	+0.066−0.030 to +0.163	−0.01	−0.03	–	46.7	6.40	16
2004 playoffs	NYJ	2	44	66	66.7	461	2	1	77	+0.095		+0.87	+0.67	–	48.1	6.06	9
2005	NYJ	3	49	83	59.0	530	2	3	99	−0.010	−0.094−0.217 to +0.029	−0.36	−0.36	–	43.4	4.16	–
2006	NYJ	16	313	485	64.5	3,352	17	16	556	+0.086	+0.077−0.012 to +0.167	+0.30	+1.67	+2.9	48.0	5.51	11
2006 playoffs	NYJ	1	23	40	57.5	300	1	1	46	−0.044		+0.26	+0.12	−2.2	41.3	5.88	8
2007	NYJ	9	179	260	68.8	1,766	10	9	297	+0.005	+0.004−0.101 to +0.109	−0.16	−0.49	+7.2	46.5	4.87	22
2008	MIA	16	321	476	67.4	3,653	19	7	519	+0.182	+0.136+0.045 to +0.227	+0.60	+3.11	+5.1	51.3	7.23	7
2008 playoffs	MIA	1	25	38	65.8	252	1	4	43	−0.221		−0.52	−0.23	+0.5	46.5	1.56	10
2009	MIA	3	51	74	68.9	413	1	2	82	−0.003	−0.107−0.232 to +0.019	−0.07	−0.06	+9.4	47.6	3.99	–
2010	MIA	1	1	2	50.0	19	0	0	2	+0.461	−0.109−0.245 to +0.028	+1.37	+0.03	−10.3	50.0	9.50	–
Career	MIA	89	1,632	2,471	66.0	17,824	102	64	2,794	+0.115		+0.25	+6.91	+4.9	48.0	6.12	–

Rushing

Season	Team	G	Carries	Yds	TD	YPC	EPA/carry	Success %	Rush EPA	Rush WPA (wins)
2000	NYJ	1	1	0	0	0.00	−1.131	0.0	−1.1	−0.00
2002	NYJ	15	14	23	2	1.64	+0.230	64.3	+3.2	+0.17
2002 playoffs	NYJ	2	2	3	0	1.50	−2.128	50.0	−4.3	−0.02
2003	NYJ	10	6	7	1	1.17	−0.614	50.0	−3.7	−0.09
2004	NYJ	13	11	23	1	2.09	+0.549	81.8	+6.0	+0.21
2004 playoffs	NYJ	2	1	-1	0	-1.00	−0.471	0.0	−0.9	+0.04
2005	NYJ	3	4	14	0	3.50	−0.948	50.0	−3.8	−0.02
2006	NYJ	16	9	27	0	3.00	+0.472	44.4	+4.3	+0.04
2006 playoffs	NYJ	1	1	-6	0	-6.00	−3.534	50.0	−7.1	−0.09
2007	NYJ	9	12	21	1	1.75	+0.135	69.2	+1.8	−0.11
2008	MIA	16	4	3	0	0.75	−0.215	25.0	−0.9	−0.01
2008 playoffs	MIA	1	1	0	0	0.00	−2.602	0.0	−2.6	−0.04
2009	MIA	3	2	4	0	2.00	−3.256	50.0	−6.5	−0.14
Career	MIA	89	63	122	5	1.94	−0.011	59.4	−0.7	+0.06

Defence

Counting stats from the play-by-play credits (QB hits from 2006, tackles for loss and passes defensed from 2009).

Season	Team	G	Tackles	QB hits	Tackles for loss	Passes defensed
2002	NYJ	15	1	–	–	–
2003	NYJ	10	1	–	–	–
2004	NYJ	13	1	–	–	–
2004 playoffs	NYJ	2	1	–	–	–
2007	NYJ	9	1	0	–	–
2008	MIA	16	1	0	–	–
Career	MIA	89	5	0	0	0

Punting

Over expected: against the season’s average punter from the same spots, in the same weather (our frozen punt model).

Season	Team	G	Punts	Net yards over expected / punt	Stabilised	Gross yards over expected / punt	Inside 20 %	Touchback %
2006	NYJ	1	1	+9.99	+0.11−1.87 to +2.10	+4.22	100.0	0.0

Honours

Honours: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), matched to players through Wikidata (CC0). Awards and All-Pro teams are the Associated Press’s; Pro Bowl selections include replacements.

Season	Honours
2006	Comeback Player of the Year
2008	Comeback Player of the Year

Game logs

2010 game log (1 games)

2010 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result
10	2010-11-14	vs TEN	W 29–17

2009 game log (3 games)

2009 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp/Att	Pass yds	TD	INT	EPA/db	Pass WPA (WP pts)	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA
1	2009-09-13	@ ATL	L 7–19	21/29	176	1	1	−0.24	−37.4	0	0	0.0
2	2009-09-21	vs IND	L 23–27	22/31	183	0	1	+0.21	+28.0	1	4	+0.2
3	2009-09-27	@ LAC	L 13–23	8/12	54	0	0	+0.10	+3.8	1	0	−6.7

2008 game log (17 games)

2008 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp/Att	Pass yds	TD	INT	EPA/db	Pass WPA (WP pts)	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Tackles
1	2008-09-07	vs NYJ	L 14–20	26/43	251	2	1	−0.07	−31.7	0	0	0.0	0
2	2008-09-14	@ ARI	L 10–31	10/20	112	0	0	−0.07	−0.5	0	0	0.0	0
3	2008-09-21	@ NE	W 38–13	17/20	226	0	0	+0.77	+43.0	0	0	0.0	0
5	2008-10-05	vs LAC	W 17–10	22/29	228	1	0	+0.30	+34.9	0	0	0.0	0
6	2008-10-12	@ HOU	L 28–29	19/25	284	2	1	+0.36	+43.0	0	0	0.0	0
7	2008-10-19	vs BAL	L 13–27	24/35	295	1	1	+0.03	+2.2	1	5	−0.3	0
8	2008-10-26	vs BUF	W 25–16	22/30	314	1	0	+0.39	+34.0	0	0	0.0	0
9	2008-11-02	@ DEN	W 26–17	23/40	281	0	1	+0.13	+30.8	0	0	0.0	0
10	2008-11-09	vs SEA	W 21–19	22/36	209	1	1	−0.04	+6.7	0	0	0.0	0
11	2008-11-16	vs LV	W 17–15	16/22	174	0	0	+0.17	+25.4	0	0	0.0	0
12	2008-11-23	vs NE	L 28–48	24/40	341	3	1	+0.27	+54.2	1	-4	−1.2	0
13	2008-11-30	@ LA	W 16–12	13/23	166	0	0	+0.23	+7.7	1	0	−1.1	0
14	2008-12-07	@ BUF	W 16–3	23/29	181	1	0	+0.22	+12.6	0	0	0.0	0
15	2008-12-14	vs SF	W 14–9	12/19	156	2	0	+0.19	+4.0	0	0	0.0	0
16	2008-12-21	@ KC	W 38–31	26/34	235	3	1	+0.40	+35.0	0	0	0.0	0
17	2008-12-28	@ NYJ	W 24–17	22/30	200	2	0	+0.02	+9.7	1	2	+1.7	1
P18	2009-01-04	vs BAL	L 9–27	25/38	252	1	4	−0.22	−22.6	1	0	−2.6	0

2007 game log (9 games)

2007 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp/Att	Pass yds	TD	INT	EPA/db	Pass WPA (WP pts)	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Tackles
1	2007-09-09	vs NE	L 14–38	16/21	167	2	0	+0.36	+12.1	0	0	0	+0.8	0
3	2007-09-23	vs MIA	W 31–28	15/21	124	2	0	+0.33	+15.6	1	2	1	+2.1	0
4	2007-09-30	@ BUF	L 14–17	32/39	290	1	2	+0.14	−23.6	1	1	0	+0.5	0
5	2007-10-07	@ NYG	L 24–35	21/36	229	1	3	−0.22	−9.8	2	6	0	+1.6	0
6	2007-10-14	vs PHI	L 9–16	11/21	128	0	1	−0.47	−30.5	3	3	0	−1.3	0
7	2007-10-21	@ CIN	L 31–38	20/31	272	3	1	+0.29	+35.2	1	0	0	−3.7	1
8	2007-10-28	vs BUF	L 3–13	13/20	106	0	0	−0.21	−17.6	1	0	0	−1.1	0
15	2007-12-16	@ NE	L 10–20	25/37	186	0	0	−0.03	−0.6	1	4	0	+0.2	0
16	2007-12-23	@ TEN	L 6–10	26/32	264	1	2	−0.15	−29.6	2	5	0	+2.7	0

2006 game log (17 games)

2006 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp/Att	Pass yds	TD	INT	EPA/db	Pass WPA (WP pts)	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Punts	Net yds over exp.	Inside 20
1	2006-09-10	@ TEN	W 23–16	24/33	319	2	0	+0.45	+33.9	0	0	0.0	–	–	–
2	2006-09-17	vs NE	L 17–24	22/35	306	2	1	+0.41	+2.9	1	3	−0.1	–	–	–
3	2006-09-24	@ BUF	W 28–20	19/29	183	1	0	+0.08	+15.9	1	4	+1.8	–	–	–
4	2006-10-01	vs IND	L 28–31	17/23	207	1	1	+0.14	+9.0	0	0	0.0	–	–	–
5	2006-10-08	@ JAX	L 0–41	10/17	71	0	3	−0.76	−9.3	0	0	0.0	–	–	–
6	2006-10-15	vs MIA	W 20–17	17/29	175	2	0	+0.05	−3.9	0	0	0.0	–	–	–
7	2006-10-22	vs DET	W 31–24	16/22	189	1	1	+0.22	+18.2	1	2	+0.7	–	–	–
8	2006-10-29	@ CLE	L 13–20	11/28	108	0	2	−0.19	−28.9	1	4	−0.0	–	–	–
10	2006-11-12	@ NE	W 17–14	22/33	168	1	1	−0.02	+12.9	1	3	+1.6	1	+10.0	1
11	2006-11-19	vs CHI	L 0–10	19/33	162	0	2	−0.22	−9.7	0	0	0.0	–	–	–
12	2006-11-26	vs HOU	W 26–11	24/31	286	1	0	+0.36	+26.1	1	2	+2.0	–	–	–
13	2006-12-03	@ GB	W 38–10	25/35	263	2	2	+0.47	+35.1	0	0	0.0	–	–	–
14	2006-12-10	vs BUF	L 13–31	22/35	182	1	2	−0.45	−27.0	1	2	−0.3	–	–	–
15	2006-12-17	@ MIN	W 26–13	29/38	339	1	1	+0.29	+34.7	1	7	−0.4	–	–	–
16	2006-12-25	@ MIA	W 13–10	14/29	237	1	0	+0.19	+55.3	1	0	−1.0	–	–	–
17	2006-12-31	vs LV	W 23–3	22/29	157	1	0	+0.03	+1.8	0	0	0.0	–	–	–
P18	2007-01-07	@ NE	L 16–37	23/40	300	1	1	−0.04	+12.0	1	-6	−7.1	–	–	–

2005 game log (3 games)

2005 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp/Att	Pass yds	TD	INT	EPA/db	Pass WPA (WP pts)	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA
1	2005-09-11	@ KC	L 7–27	21/34	264	0	1	−0.05	−6.6	2	0	−4.8
2	2005-09-18	vs MIA	W 17–7	19/30	190	2	0	+0.26	+27.7	1	12	+0.7
3	2005-09-25	vs JAX	L 20–26 OT	9/19	76	0	2	−0.27	−56.8	1	2	+0.3

2004 game log (15 games)

2004 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp/Att	Pass yds	TD	INT	EPA/db	Pass WPA (WP pts)	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Tackles
1	2004-09-12	vs CIN	W 31–24	20/27	224	2	0	+0.33	+26.7	0	0	0	0.0	0
2	2004-09-19	@ LAC	W 34–28	22/29	258	2	0	+0.44	+19.5	2	1	0	−0.3	0
4	2004-10-03	@ MIA	W 17–9	14/24	143	0	1	−0.57	−28.4	2	7	0	−0.5	0
5	2004-10-10	vs BUF	W 16–14	31/42	304	1	1	+0.25	+34.9	0	0	0	0.0	0
6	2004-10-17	vs SF	W 22–14	20/30	222	0	0	+0.00	+3.9	1	3	0	+0.4	0
7	2004-10-24	@ NE	L 7–13	19/30	162	0	0	+0.12	−4.5	2	3	1	+2.9	0
8	2004-11-01	vs MIA	W 41–14	11/19	189	3	0	+0.38	+6.0	0	0	0	0.0	0
9	2004-11-07	@ BUF	L 17–22	7/15	141	1	1	−0.24	−11.8	0	0	0	0.0	0
13	2004-12-05	vs HOU	W 29–7	20/27	155	2	1	+0.11	−14.8	0	0	0	0.0	0
14	2004-12-12	@ PIT	L 6–17	17/31	189	0	3	−0.23	−18.1	1	3	0	+0.4	1
15	2004-12-19	vs SEA	W 37–14	18/24	253	3	0	+0.84	+22.0	0	0	0	0.0	0
16	2004-12-26	vs NE	L 7–23	22/36	252	1	2	−0.17	−18.4	2	4	0	+1.2	0
17	2005-01-02	@ LA	L 29–32 OT	21/36	181	1	0	−0.11	−20.5	1	2	0	+2.0	0
P18	2005-01-08	@ LAC	W 20–17 OT	23/33	279	2	0	+0.35	+61.6	1	-1	0	−0.9	0
P19	2005-01-15	@ PIT	L 17–20 OT	21/33	182	0	1	−0.16	+5.4	0	0	0	0.0	1

2003 game log (10 games)

2003 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp/Att	Pass yds	TD	INT	EPA/db	Pass WPA (WP pts)	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Tackles
8	2003-10-26	@ PHI	L 17–24	14/22	154	0	1	−0.03	−28.9	0	0	0	0.0	0
9	2003-11-02	vs NYG	L 28–31 OT	27/44	281	4	2	+0.22	+48.7	0	0	0	0.0	0
10	2003-11-09	@ LV	W 27–24 OT	18/27	269	2	0	+0.39	+16.9	1	0	0	−0.8	0
11	2003-11-16	@ IND	L 31–38	11/14	219	3	0	+0.33	+13.5	0	0	0	0.0	0
12	2003-11-23	vs JAX	W 13–10	25/39	236	1	1	+0.03	+43.6	0	0	0	0.0	0
13	2003-12-01	vs TEN	W 24–17	18/23	231	2	2	+0.30	+30.8	0	0	0	0.0	0
14	2003-12-07	@ BUF	L 6–17	15/29	155	0	1	−0.29	−13.2	1	4	0	+2.5	0
15	2003-12-14	vs PIT	W 6–0	15/25	144	0	0	+0.12	+9.5	3	2	0	−6.7	1
16	2003-12-20	vs NE	L 16–21	24/43	229	0	5	−0.18	−47.1	1	1	1	+1.3	0
17	2003-12-28	@ MIA	L 21–23	22/28	221	1	0	+0.18	+0.3	0	0	0	0.0	0

2002 game log (17 games)

2002 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp/Att	Pass yds	TD	INT	EPA/db	Pass WPA (WP pts)	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Tackles
2	2002-09-15	vs NE	L 7–44	3/10	39	0	0	−0.51	−0.1	0	0	0	0.0	0
3	2002-09-22	@ MIA	L 3–30	2/3	32	0	1	−0.38	−0.0	0	0	0	0.0	0
4	2002-09-29	@ JAX	L 3–28	21/34	281	0	1	+0.22	0.0	0	0	0	0.0	1
5	2002-10-06	vs KC	L 25–29	22/29	237	2	1	+0.22	+25.9	3	3	0	+0.9	0
7	2002-10-20	vs MIN	W 20–7	24/29	324	1	0	+0.66	+36.6	0	0	0	0.0	0
8	2002-10-27	vs CLE	L 21–24	19/26	183	2	1	+0.02	−6.4	0	0	0	0.0	0
9	2002-11-03	@ LAC	W 44–13	28/37	253	1	0	+0.28	+23.0	2	7	1	+0.8	0
10	2002-11-10	vs MIA	W 13–10	17/27	167	0	0	+0.03	+7.9	1	3	0	+0.4	0
11	2002-11-17	@ DET	W 31–14	21/26	229	4	1	+0.52	+33.6	1	2	0	+0.8	0
12	2002-11-24	vs BUF	W 31–13	15/24	178	1	0	+0.16	+8.8	1	1	1	+2.7	0
13	2002-12-02	@ LV	L 20–26	22/34	265	2	1	+0.31	+12.8	0	0	0	0.0	0
14	2002-12-08	vs DEN	W 19–13	19/30	244	1	0	+0.17	+25.6	3	4	0	+0.2	0
15	2002-12-15	@ CHI	L 13–20	22/33	207	1	0	+0.23	−9.2	1	0	0	−2.8	0
16	2002-12-22	@ NE	W 30–17	23/33	285	3	0	+0.40	+42.3	0	0	0	0.0	0
17	2002-12-29	vs GB	W 42–17	17/24	196	4	0	+0.65	+29.0	2	3	0	+0.2	0
P18	2003-01-04	vs IND	W 41–0	19/25	222	3	0	+0.46	+11.9	1	3	0	+0.3	0
P19	2003-01-12	@ LV	L 10–30	21/47	183	1	2	−0.13	−9.9	1	0	0	−4.6	0

2001 game log (2 games)

2001 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp/Att	Pass yds	TD	INT	EPA/db	Pass WPA (WP pts)
1	2001-09-09	vs IND	L 24–45	1/6	24	0	0	−0.31	−0.0
6	2001-10-21	vs LA	L 14–34	9/14	68	1	0	−0.06	−0.0

2000 game log (1 games)

2000 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp/Att	Pass yds	TD	INT	EPA/db	Pass WPA (WP pts)	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA
15	2000-12-10	@ LV	L 7–31	2/5	67	1	0	+1.04	−0.0	1	0	0	−1.1