highest career passer rating in first 20 games

17 players are tied for the highest passer rating in their first 20 games, with a 158.3 rating. The first three are Tom Kennedy, Antonio Andrews and Ace Sanders.

	NAME	RTG	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	TD%	INT%	SCK	SCKY
1	Tom Kennedy T. Kennedy	158.3	20	1	1	100.0	75	75.0	3.8	1	0	100.0	0.0	0	0
2	Antonio Andrews A. Andrews	158.3	20	1	1	100.0	41	41.0	2.1	1	0	100.0	0.0	0	0
3	Ace Sanders A. Sanders	158.3	20	1	1	100.0	21	21.0	1.1	1	0	100.0	0.0	0	0
4	Mohamed Sanu M. Sanu	158.3	20	2	2	100.0	98	49.0	4.9	1	0	50.0	0.0	0	0
5	Brian Westbrook B. Westbrook	158.3	20	1	1	100.0	25	25.0	1.3	1	0	100.0	0.0	0	0
6	Arthur Marshall A. Marshall	158.3	20	2	2	100.0	111	55.5	5.6	2	0	100.0	0.0	0	0
7	Brian Brennan B. Brennan	158.3	20	1	1	100.0	33	33.0	1.7	1	0	100.0	0.0	0	0
8	Mike Guman M. Guman	158.3	20	1	1	100.0	31	31.0	1.6	1	0	100.0	0.0
9	Bubba Bean B. Bean	158.3	20	1	1	100.0	49	49.0	2.5	1	0	100.0	0.0
10	Archie Griffin A. Griffin	158.3	20	1	1	100.0	18	18.0	0.9	1	0	100.0	0.0
11	Willie Miller W. Miller	158.3	20	1	1	100.0	26	26.0	1.3	1	0	100.0	0.0
12	Joe Theismann J. Theismann	158.3	20	11	13	84.6	186	14.3	9.3	2	0	15.4	0.0
13	Cotton Speyrer C. Speyrer	158.3	20	1	1	100.0	54	54.0	2.7	1	0	100.0	0.0
14	Larry Walton L. Walton	158.3	20	1	1	100.0	43	43.0	2.2	1	0	100.0	0.0
15	Les Josephson L. Josephson	158.3	20	1	1	100.0	15	15.0	0.8	1	0	100.0	0.0
16	Mike Lind M. Lind	158.3	20	1	1	100.0	69	69.0	3.5	1	0	100.0	0.0
17	Gino Cappelletti G. Cappelletti	158.3	20	1	1	100.0	27	27.0	1.4	1	0	100.0	0.0
18	Billy Ray Barnes B. Ray Barnes	156.3	20	3	4	75.0	100	25.0	5.0	2	0	50.0	0.0
19	Cedrick Wilson Jr. C. Wilson Jr.	154.2	20	2	2	100.0	23	11.5	1.2	1	0	50.0	0.0	0	0
20	Spencer Lanning S. Lanning	152.1	20	1	1	100.0	11	11.0	0.6	1	0	100.0	0.0	0	0
21	Gerry McDougall G. McDougall	152.1	20	1	1	100.0	11	11.0	0.6	1	0	100.0	0.0
22	Joe Washington J. Washington	149.3	20	2	3	66.7	86	28.7	4.3	2	0	66.7	0.0
23	Greg Pruitt G. Pruitt	149.3	20	2	3	66.7	115	38.3	5.8	2	0	66.7	0.0
24	Johnny Hekker J. Hekker	147.9	20	3	4	75.0	42	10.5	2.1	1	0	25.0	0.0	0	0
25	Willard Harrell W. Harrell	141.4	20	4	7	57.1	101	14.4	5.1	4	0	57.1	0.0

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