Drew Bledsoe

QB · NE/BUF/DAL · 1999–2006

Born February 14, 1972 · College Washington State · Drafted 1993, round 1, pick 1 (NE) · 6-5, 238 lb

Pro Bowl (2002)

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)
1999	NE	16	305	537	56.8	3,985	19	21	638	−0.032	+0.022−0.064 to +0.108	−0.32	−2.06	–	41.7	5.20	29
2000	NE	16	312	531	58.8	3,291	17	13	629	+0.019	+0.055−0.031 to +0.142	+0.03	+0.19	–	43.1	4.83	26
2001	NE	2	40	66	60.6	400	2	2	76	−0.012	−0.132−0.258 to −0.006	−0.47	−0.36	–	39.5	4.63	–
2001 playoffs	NE	1	10	21	47.6	102	1	0	25	+0.000		+0.38	+0.10	–	40.0	4.83	–
2002	BUF	16	375	610	61.5	4,359	24	15	713	+0.106	+0.112+0.029 to +0.195	+0.46	+3.30	–	48.4	5.72	15
2003	BUF	16	274	471	58.2	2,860	11	12	554	−0.108	−0.035−0.125 to +0.055	−0.36	−1.97	–	40.6	4.18	33
2004	BUF	16	256	449	57.0	2,932	20	16	507	−0.009	+0.037−0.055 to +0.129	−0.01	−0.04	–	44.6	4.99	25
2005	DAL	16	300	499	60.1	3,639	23	17	595	+0.119	+0.115+0.027 to +0.203	+0.06	+0.35	–	46.2	5.60	12
2006	DAL	6	90	169	53.3	1,164	7	8	204	−0.003	−0.065−0.177 to +0.047	−0.33	−0.67	−3.7	41.7	4.52	23
Career	DAL	104	1,952	3,332	58.6	22,630	123	104	3,916	+0.018		−0.03	−1.27	−3.7	44.0	5.08	–

Rushing

Season	Team	G	Carries	Yds	TD	YPC	EPA/carry	Success %	Rush EPA	Rush WPA (wins)
1999	NE	16	11	25	0	2.27	+0.392	72.7	+4.3	+0.13
2000	NE	16	26	40	2	1.54	−0.250	44.4	−6.8	−0.12
2001	NE	2	1	1	0	1.00	−1.769	0.0	−1.8	−0.09
2001 playoffs	NE	1	3	-3	0	-1.00	−0.537	0.0	−1.6	+0.00
2002	BUF	16	15	30	2	2.00	+0.544	73.3	+8.2	+0.01
2003	BUF	16	6	5	2	0.83	+0.066	50.0	+0.4	+0.10
2004	BUF	16	7	-1	0	-0.14	−2.493	14.3	−17.5	−0.41
2005	DAL	16	17	9	1	0.53	−0.808	52.6	−15.4	−0.24
2006	DAL	6	3	3	1	1.00	+0.496	100.0	+1.5	+0.05
Career	DAL	104	86	112	8	1.30	−0.303	53.9	−27.0	−0.56

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	Sacks	QB hits	Tackles for loss	INT	Passes defensed	Forced fumbles
1999	NE	16	3	0.0	–	–	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
2002	Pro Bowl

Game logs

2006 game log (6 games)

2006 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
1	2006-09-10	@ JAX	L 17–24	16/33	246	1	3	−0.09	−30.9	0	0	0	0.0
2	2006-09-17	vs WAS	W 27–10	19/38	237	2	0	+0.21	+9.1	0	0	0	0.0
4	2006-10-01	@ TEN	W 45–14	13/20	179	2	1	+0.60	+14.6	0	0	0	0.0
5	2006-10-08	@ PHI	L 24–38	18/38	223	0	3	−0.33	−43.0	2	2	0	+0.8
6	2006-10-15	vs HOU	W 34–6	17/28	168	2	0	+0.01	−2.7	0	0	0	0.0
7	2006-10-23	vs NYG	L 22–36	7/12	111	0	1	−0.20	−14.5	1	1	1	+0.7

2005 game log (16 games)

2005 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
1	2005-09-11	@ LAC	W 28–24	18/24	226	3	0	+0.78	+77.7	3	-2	0	−4.0
2	2005-09-19	vs WAS	L 13–14	21/35	261	1	0	+0.04	−72.4	2	5	0	−0.6
3	2005-09-25	@ SF	W 34–31	24/38	363	2	2	+0.35	+38.4	0	0	0	0.0
4	2005-10-02	@ LV	L 13–19	11/26	212	1	1	+0.16	−14.9	0	0	0	0.0
5	2005-10-09	vs PHI	W 33–10	24/34	289	3	0	+0.45	+29.1	2	5	0	+1.1
6	2005-10-16	vs NYG	W 16–13 OT	26/37	312	1	1	+0.21	+13.4	1	0	0	−5.1
7	2005-10-23	@ SEA	L 10–13	13/24	136	1	2	−0.31	−79.8	1	0	0	−1.1
8	2005-10-30	vs ARI	W 34–13	19/24	220	1	0	+0.36	+20.5	1	0	0	−4.8
10	2005-11-14	@ PHI	W 21–20	17/24	196	1	1	−0.01	−4.8	1	1	0	+1.0
11	2005-11-20	vs DET	W 20–7	12/23	110	0	0	+0.21	+5.1	2	5	0	+3.7
12	2005-11-24	vs DEN	L 21–24 OT	29/43	232	2	2	−0.05	−11.5	2	0	1	+2.1
13	2005-12-04	@ NYG	L 10–17	15/37	146	1	2	−0.23	−45.6	1	-5	0	−6.7
14	2005-12-11	vs KC	W 31–28	22/34	332	3	0	+0.54	+111.1	0	0	0	0.0
15	2005-12-18	@ WAS	L 7–35	16/29	153	1	3	−0.43	−9.8	0	0	0	0.0
16	2005-12-24	@ CAR	W 24–20	15/23	209	1	1	+0.17	+27.2	1	0	0	−0.8
17	2006-01-01	vs LA	L 10–20	18/39	242	1	2	−0.18	−49.2	0	0	0	0.0

2004 game log (16 games)

2004 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp/Att	Pass yds	TD	INT	EPA/db	Pass WPA (WP pts)	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA
1	2004-09-12	vs JAX	L 10–13	17/26	153	1	0	+0.20	+3.4	2	-3	−5.4
2	2004-09-19	@ LV	L 10–13	13/23	198	1	1	−0.04	−19.1	0	0	0.0
4	2004-10-03	vs NE	L 17–31	18/30	247	1	1	−0.27	−16.0	0	0	0.0
5	2004-10-10	@ NYJ	L 14–16	16/28	197	2	1	+0.11	−0.7	0	0	0.0
6	2004-10-17	vs MIA	W 20–13	15/28	212	1	0	+0.32	+27.2	0	0	0.0
7	2004-10-24	@ BAL	L 6–20	20/36	203	0	4	−0.64	−35.0	0	0	0.0
8	2004-10-31	vs ARI	W 38–14	8/17	81	2	0	+0.40	−0.8	1	0	−3.0
9	2004-11-07	vs NYJ	W 22–17	18/29	184	1	0	+0.24	+36.4	0	0	0.0
10	2004-11-14	@ NE	L 6–29	8/19	76	0	3	−0.77	−9.6	0	0	0.0
11	2004-11-21	vs LA	W 37–17	15/24	185	3	1	+0.04	+18.8	1	0	−2.0
12	2004-11-28	@ SEA	W 38–9	25/35	275	1	3	+0.29	+18.7	0	0	0.0
13	2004-12-05	@ MIA	W 42–32	19/30	277	4	0	+0.37	+25.8	0	0	0.0
14	2004-12-12	vs CLE	W 37–7	12/27	100	1	1	−0.29	−7.2	1	0	−5.0
15	2004-12-19	@ CIN	W 33–17	15/29	183	1	0	+0.16	+4.2	0	0	0.0
16	2004-12-26	@ SF	W 41–7	21/32	172	1	0	+0.18	+5.9	1	2	+0.4
17	2005-01-02	vs PIT	L 24–29	16/26	189	0	1	−0.40	−56.3	1	0	−2.5

2003 game log (16 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
1	2003-09-07	vs NE	W 31–0	17/28	230	1	1	+0.40	+33.9	0	0	0	0.0
2	2003-09-14	@ JAX	W 38–17	19/25	314	2	0	+1.17	+33.7	0	0	0	0.0
3	2003-09-21	@ MIA	L 7–17	10/24	98	0	2	−0.54	−45.9	0	0	0	0.0
4	2003-09-28	vs PHI	L 13–23	27/43	296	1	0	+0.11	−11.4	1	1	1	+2.9
5	2003-10-05	vs CIN	W 22–16 OT	19/35	211	1	0	−0.02	+15.2	1	0	0	−1.6
6	2003-10-12	@ NYJ	L 3–30	24/40	202	0	1	−0.21	−4.6	0	0	0	0.0
7	2003-10-19	vs WAS	W 24–7	19/26	244	1	1	+0.14	+4.2	0	0	0	0.0
8	2003-10-26	@ KC	L 5–38	23/34	153	0	3	−0.41	−16.8	1	0	0	−1.8
10	2003-11-09	@ DAL	L 6–10	17/34	104	0	0	−0.46	−58.8	0	0	0	0.0
11	2003-11-16	vs HOU	L 10–12	15/26	184	0	0	−0.25	−56.0	0	0	0	0.0
12	2003-11-23	vs IND	L 14–17	15/28	135	0	1	−0.30	−47.7	1	1	1	+1.1
13	2003-11-30	@ NYG	W 24–7	19/29	252	2	0	+0.49	+41.5	1	0	0	−0.7
14	2003-12-07	vs NYJ	W 17–6	9/15	72	1	1	−0.33	−14.2	0	0	0	0.0
15	2003-12-14	@ TEN	L 26–28	17/30	168	2	0	+0.04	−15.3	0	0	0	0.0
16	2003-12-21	vs MIA	L 3–20	12/24	114	0	1	−0.71	−46.2	0	0	0	0.0
17	2003-12-27	@ NE	L 0–31	12/29	83	0	1	−0.77	−8.6	1	3	0	+0.5

2002 game log (16 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
1	2002-09-08	vs NYJ	L 31–37 OT	26/39	271	1	2	+0.00	+5.4	0	0	0	0.0
2	2002-09-15	@ MIN	W 45–39 OT	35/49	463	3	0	+0.43	+161.8	1	0	0	−1.7
3	2002-09-22	@ DEN	L 23–28	27/41	283	2	0	+0.21	−5.3	0	0	0	0.0
4	2002-09-29	vs CHI	W 33–27 OT	28/36	328	4	0	+0.44	+90.9	0	0	0	0.0
5	2002-10-06	vs LV	L 31–49	32/53	417	2	3	+0.06	+29.0	0	0	0	0.0
6	2002-10-13	@ HOU	W 31–24	19/33	254	2	0	+0.23	+45.7	3	-2	0	−0.1
7	2002-10-20	@ MIA	W 23–10	15/31	182	1	0	−0.04	−8.6	1	3	0	+0.1
8	2002-10-27	vs DET	W 24–17	21/36	302	1	0	+0.17	+28.0	1	4	0	+1.7
9	2002-11-03	vs NE	L 7–38	28/45	302	1	1	−0.07	+5.2	1	2	0	+1.4
11	2002-11-17	@ KC	L 16–17	24/36	225	1	1	+0.15	+5.1	1	2	0	+0.2
12	2002-11-24	@ NYJ	L 13–31	21/33	181	0	2	−0.12	−10.5	0	0	0	0.0
13	2002-12-01	vs MIA	W 38–21	15/27	306	3	0	+0.38	+38.7	1	2	1	+2.3
14	2002-12-08	@ NE	L 17–27	32/51	328	2	4	−0.07	−19.2	2	11	0	+1.1
15	2002-12-15	vs LAC	W 20–13	11/33	107	0	0	−0.07	−2.6	1	0	0	−1.0
16	2002-12-22	@ GB	L 0–10	18/36	179	0	2	−0.30	−42.8	1	2	0	+0.6
17	2002-12-29	vs CIN	W 27–9	23/31	231	1	0	+0.42	+8.8	2	6	1	+3.5

2001 game log (3 games)

2001 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp/Att	Pass yds	TD	INT	EPA/db	Pass WPA (WP pts)	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA
1	2001-09-09	@ CIN	L 17–23	22/38	241	2	0	+0.18	−3.8	1	1	−1.8
2	2001-09-23	vs NYJ	L 3–10	18/28	159	0	2	−0.29	−32.1	0	0	0.0
P20	2002-01-27	@ PIT	W 24–17	10/21	102	1	0	+0.00	+9.5	3	-3	−1.6

2000 game log (16 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
1	2000-09-03	vs TB	L 16–21	26/39	216	1	0	−0.18	−58.5	2	10	0	+0.4
2	2000-09-11	@ NYJ	L 19–20	25/43	229	1	0	+0.12	−2.0	1	2	0	+1.7
3	2000-09-17	vs MIN	L 13–21	21/35	190	1	1	−0.12	−22.6	1	5	0	+0.1
4	2000-09-24	@ MIA	L 3–10	16/33	161	0	1	−0.07	−17.4	1	1	0	+2.3
5	2000-10-01	@ DEN	W 28–19	18/27	271	4	1	+0.48	+45.5	3	-3	0	−1.2
6	2000-10-08	vs IND	W 24–16	15/23	142	2	0	+0.22	+32.6	1	-1	0	−1.1
7	2000-10-15	vs NYJ	L 17–34	16/35	208	0	3	−0.45	−35.7	1	13	1	+2.7
8	2000-10-22	@ IND	L 23–30	23/34	231	1	0	+0.32	+42.0	3	4	1	+2.2
10	2000-11-05	vs BUF	L 13–16 OT	3/5	50	0	1	−0.17	−3.5	0	0	0	0.0
11	2000-11-12	@ CLE	L 11–19	21/35	212	1	1	−0.12	−26.0	2	0	0	−9.9
12	2000-11-19	vs CIN	W 16–13	22/36	258	0	1	+0.14	+21.6	4	-7	0	−5.2
13	2000-11-23	@ DET	L 9–34	17/32	148	0	2	−0.20	+4.4	1	5	0	+1.4
14	2000-12-04	vs KC	W 30–24	33/48	282	2	0	+0.09	+13.7	3	5	0	+0.8
15	2000-12-10	@ CHI	L 17–24	25/46	225	2	0	−0.04	−28.1	2	6	0	+0.2
16	2000-12-17	@ BUF	W 13–10 OT	13/26	156	0	0	+0.16	+44.8	1	0	0	−1.1
17	2000-12-24	vs MIA	L 24–27	18/34	312	2	2	+0.26	+8.5	0	0	0	0.0

1999 game log (16 games)

1999 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	1999-09-12	@ NYJ	W 30–28	21/30	340	1	1	+0.21	+5.1	0	0	0.0	0
2	1999-09-19	vs IND	W 31–28	27/45	299	4	0	+0.21	+20.7	2	8	−0.2	0
3	1999-09-26	vs NYG	W 16–14	20/28	233	0	0	+0.24	+19.0	1	1	+0.6	0
4	1999-10-03	@ CLE	W 19–7	29/43	393	1	0	+0.41	+3.4	1	1	+0.5	0
5	1999-10-10	@ KC	L 14–16	23/45	334	2	2	+0.18	+67.0	1	1	+0.3	0
6	1999-10-17	vs MIA	L 30–31	17/36	225	1	1	−0.09	−46.7	0	0	0.0	0
7	1999-10-24	vs DEN	W 24–23	13/22	214	0	0	−0.01	+1.8	0	0	0.0	0
8	1999-10-31	@ ARI	W 27–3	14/22	276	4	0	+0.36	+14.3	0	0	0.0	0
10	1999-11-15	vs NYJ	L 17–24	15/36	170	2	3	−0.23	−61.9	0	0	0.0	0
11	1999-11-21	@ MIA	L 17–27	15/34	201	1	5	−0.51	−64.8	0	0	0.0	1
12	1999-11-28	@ BUF	L 7–17	18/34	205	1	1	−0.13	−19.1	2	6	+1.8	0
13	1999-12-05	vs DAL	W 13–6	14/25	176	0	2	−0.26	−17.3	2	6	+0.3	1
14	1999-12-12	@ IND	L 15–20	31/44	379	1	1	+0.13	−10.2	0	0	0.0	0
15	1999-12-19	@ PHI	L 9–24	23/48	331	0	4	−0.39	−75.5	0	0	0.0	1
16	1999-12-26	vs BUF	L 10–13 OT	10/20	101	0	0	−0.38	−32.5	1	0	+0.4	0
17	2000-01-02	vs BAL	W 20–3	15/25	108	1	1	−0.24	−9.8	1	2	+0.6	0