Quarterbacks Since 1980 to Post a Zero Passer Rating For a Game (10+ attempts)

Quarterback CP AT YD INT Notes

Todd Marinovich 3 10 25 3 Last career NFL game played

Tommy Maddox 6 23 49 3

Dave Brown 3 11 31 2

Kent Graham 4 14 40 2

Tony Graziani 4 18 24 2 1st career start

Trent Dilfer 2 15 38 2

Ryan Leaf 1 15 4 2

Scott Mitchell 4 16 39 2

Anthony Wright 5 20 35 2

Randy Fasani 5 18 46 3 Only career start

Tim Hasselbeck 6 26 56 4

Jeff Garcia 8 27 71 3

Eli Manning 4 18 27 2

Joey Harrington 5 17 20 2

Rex Grossman 2 12 33 3

Chris Redman 4 15 34 2


How absolutely terrible are these performances? Well, I looked up Spurgeon Wynn's 2 starts with the Vikings -- ratings of 23.2 and 20. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/W/WynnSp00_games.htm He had a chance at a zero against the Packers, but managed to throw a TD in that game (ruining his 0 rating). Against Baltimore, Wynn did engineer a 19-3 loss and go 13-29 for 86 yards and 2 picks, but those 13 completions were just too good to reach a 0 rating (even though he did average a paltry 3 yards per pass attempt).

So what do you need for a 0 passer rating? Well, the best game on the list appears to be Jeff Garcia's 8 of 27. So you need to complete less than 30% of your passes. No zero rated passer has achieved 3 yards per attempt. And every single guy has throw at least 2 picks with no TD's.

So, Wynn failed to get under 30% in either Viking start and he managed to eke out 3 yards per attempt both times. Plus he had that one unfortunate TD (47 yards to Byron Chamberlain -- his stats the rest of the game? 10 of 29 for 67 yards and 3 picks).


CONCLUSION -- You really, really, really have to suck in a game to get a 0 passer rating for that game.