1. Matthew Stafford
Stafford improved his QBR by 14.1 points from the first half of the season to the second. He threw 16 touchdown passes and just two interceptions in the second half of the season. In the red zone, Stafford dominated. Inside the 20, he had the highest completion percentage in the NFL, he had the third most touchdown passes and he didn’t throw a single interception.
Those red zone numbers are over the whole season, not just the second half. And that was in a season where he was getting crushed by defensive linemen. He had top-8 passing numbers across the board in a year where only five quarterbacks were sacked more often. And he switched OCs in the middle of it.
With a full offseason of work put in with Cooter, Stafford may be one of the best quarterbacks in the league in 2016.