WASHINGTON — When Bleacher Report put out its annual quarterback rankings, something seemed off about Kirk Cousins coming in 28th place out of 50 NFL passers, something beyond the normal hemming and hawing over an underrated quarterback.

Cousins scored a 75 out of 100 possible points, but graded particularly low in the accuracy category, an area to which any objective observer could point as one of the quarterback’s bigger strengths in 2015.

You wouldn’t need someone to point it out, though; Cousins’ league-leading 69.8 percent completion rate makes it abundantly clear.

And yet, the Redskins quarterback scored 25-of-40 in accuracy — his biggest area of weakness by Bleacher Report’s model.

“He led the NFL in completion percentage. He just about set the franchise record,” Grant Paulsen told the list’s co-author, Matt Miller, on 106.7 The Fan’s Grant and Danny Show. “It’s hard for me to believe that a guy who completed 70 percent of his passes, and a lot of weeks put on passing clinics, was lower-rated in accuracy than so many of these guys. I mean he got a 25 out of a possible 40. How do you guys explain that?

“I’m standing in a hallway at the [NFL Scouting Combine], so I don’t have all my notes right in front of me,” Miller said. “But I would say the Jets game was a big one — I think maybe you mentioned that — the game against the Giants would be another big one as well, the Patriots game I think he was right around 55, 56 percent in that game.”

“There were seven drops in that game that hit receivers in the hands,” Paulsen said.

“Okay, well again, I’m away from my notes so you two guys have that right in front of you,” Miller replied. “But just going off memory, there were five or six games where the completion percentage was pretty bad, and the drops were something that we tried to factor in. And I know that I watched the Atlanta game, like myself — I went through and charted that entire game and there were four or five drops just in that game. So it’s definitely a factor and it’s something when you get a group together, it’s not going to be just my ranking, and I wish I could tell you how the other six people all voted on this, but again, I don’t have that in front of me.”

Miller went on to note Bleacher Report’s evaluation process changes every year: “It’s a living, evolving thing, especially when it’s seven people, plus an editor, who are involved in the whole process. It’s not something where I’m going to be able to defend and agree with every decision that we make, but I think the overall idea is still a pretty good one.”

Miller also explained their determinations weren’t made solely based on performance, but physical traits as well.

“This isn’t Pro Football Focus,” Miller said, although the piece specifically cited Pro Football Focus as a source. “It’s not looking at numbers and ranking guys based on that, it’s more of looking at people how you would in a scouting department.”

As it turns out, a calculation error skewed the results. Bleacher Report has since issued a correction:

Due to a calculation error, Kirk Cousins’ overall score (75) and ranking (28) were incorrect in the original version. Cousins’ overall score and ranking have been updated to reflect corrections made to fix that error.

With his new accuracy rating of 35-of-40, Cousins now ranks 15th among NFL quarterbacks on Bleacher Report.

Marcus Mariota and Teddy Bridgewater are better company than Matt Hasselbeck and Josh McCown, anyway.

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