highest passer rating by a qb in there first 16 games

Joe Theismann had the highest passer rating by a quarterback in his first 16 games, with a 158.3 rating.

	NAME	RTG	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	TD%	INT%	SCK	SCKY
1	Joe Theismann J. Theismann	158.3	16	10	12	83.3	175	14.6	10.9	2	0	16.7	0.0
2	Bob Lee B. Lee	115.3	16	7	11	63.6	79	7.2	4.9	1	0	9.1	0.0
3	Patrick Mahomes P. Mahomes	111.8	16	391	591	66.2	5,100	8.6	318.8	48	12	8.1	2.0	28	186
4	Dan Manucci D. Manucci	111.1	16	5	6	83.3	64	10.7	4.0	0	0	0.0	0.0
5	Brock Purdy B. Purdy	110.3	16	236	345	68.4	2,962	8.6	185.1	21	4	6.1	1.2	22	146
6	Kurt Warner K. Warner	110.2	16	317	486	65.2	4,251	8.7	265.7	39	11	8.0	2.3	27	186
7	Jimmy Garoppolo J. Garoppolo	108.5	16	62	91	68.1	684	7.5	42.8	5	0	5.5	0.0	8	51
8	Matt Cavanaugh M. Cavanaugh	108.3	16	1	1	100.0	10	10.0	0.6	0	0	0.0	0.0
9	Dak Prescott D. Prescott	104.9	16	311	459	67.8	3,667	8.0	229.2	23	4	5.0	0.9	25	143
10	C.J. Stroud	103.5	16	335	520	64.4	4,382	8.4	273.9	26	5	5.0	1.0	38	331
11	Steve Dils S. Dils	102.7	16	32	51	62.7	352	6.9	22.0	3	0	5.9	0.0
12	Deshaun Watson D. Watson	101.7	16	311	489	63.6	4,088	8.4	255.5	36	15	7.4	3.1	49	265
13	Robert Griffin III R. Griffin III	101.2	16	268	412	65.0	3,284	8.0	205.3	22	6	5.3	1.5	32	233
14	Jayden Daniels J. Daniels	101.2	16	325	468	69.4	3,530	7.5	220.6	25	9	5.3	1.9	43	220
15	Dan Marino D. Marino	100.8	16	265	440	60.2	3,501	8.0	218.8	34	11	7.7	2.5	10	80
16	Russell Wilson R. Wilson	100.0	16	252	393	64.1	3,118	7.9	194.9	26	10	6.6	2.5	33	203
17	Rob Johnson R. Johnson	99.4	16	92	142	64.8	1,278	9.0	79.9	10	6	7.0	4.2	36	205
18	Doug Pederson D. Pederson	99.4	16	14	25	56.0	144	5.8	9.0	2	0	8.0	0.0	1	4
19	Jamie Martin J. Martin	98.9	16	72	112	64.3	903	8.1	56.4	7	3	6.3	2.7	6	44
20	Nick Foles N. Foles	98.7	16	285	461	61.8	3,490	7.6	218.1	25	5	5.4	1.1	37	233
21	Todd Bouman T. Bouman	98.6	16	61	108	56.5	961	8.9	60.1	9	4	8.3	3.7	8	57
22	Chad Pennington C. Pennington	98.6	16	247	367	67.3	2,798	7.6	174.9	17	6	4.6	1.6	23	145
23	Colin Kaepernick C. Kaepernick	97.9	16	139	223	62.3	1,849	8.3	115.6	10	3	4.5	1.3	16	112
24	Justin Herbert J. Herbert	97.3	16	427	642	66.5	4,673	7.3	292.1	32	11	5.0	1.7	34	221
25	Daunte Culpepper D. Culpepper	97.3	16	290	464	62.5	3,840	8.3	240.0	32	16	6.9	3.4	34	181

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