First off, I recommend that you avoid much reliance on QBR as a useful metric. It has major flaws.
Setting that aside, Glennon did not perform very well this year. He completed just 59.4% of his passes (#26 among qualifying QBs) for just 6.2 yards per attempt (#37 among qualifiers). Those are metrics that are much more appropriate to use when judging QB play, and both of those numbers are awful.
Glennon’s 19:9 TD to interception ratio was good, especially for a rookie. But there are no positives beyond that.
ProFootballFocus rated him as the #32 QB this season… and their ratings are cumulative, so the fact that he didn’t play the first 3 games might have kept him from finishing lower. Their metrics show that he was a good deep passer but was terrible under pressure. Not much different than when he was starting for the Wolfpack.
Glennon ranked #22 in Football Outsiders QB passing DYAR, which measures QB total value. He ranked #26 in FO QB passing DVOA, which measures QB value per play. He ranked #31 and #34, respectively, in FO QB rushing DYAR and DVOA.
He was better than Josh Freeman, but that says more about how badly Freeman regressed/imploded than it says anything positive about Glennon.
With Schiano gone, I think it is more likely than not that Glennon will be replaced this offseason, one way or another. If not, I doubt his play will improve much, if at all, and he will likely be replaced after one more season.
I hope I’m wrong about that, but I don’t see Glennon as ever being more than a backup caliber NFL QB.
