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Nothing is much more gripping in sports than a late do-or-die drive with the game on the line. My eyes are usually glued to the screen when one play can be the difference between a win and a lo s.We've seen a ton of clutch opportunities in Steven Adams Jersey 2022, a year where the is collectively on pace to break single-season records for close games and game-winning drives.There aren't a ton of numbers to support clutch debates, though. Game-winning drives is a fascinating stat, but has serious limitations. It's actually po sible to be credited with a game-winning drive with nothing but a kneel down. And, of course, if your defense gets stops at the end of the game, it's more likely to hold a lead, and therefore increases the likelihood of its quarterback recording a game-winning drive.With that in mind, I introduce the Clutch QB Index. I'm not tackling the all-time clutch QB debate, which often comes down to championships in people's minds. Instead, I seek to answer who is the most clutch QB in the NFL right now based on what they've done in their careers, and what they've done lately. 1. QB conversion rate on game-tying/go-ahead drive chances in fourth quarter/OT. (How often does a QB succe sfully bring his team down the field to tie or take the lead?)2. Pa ser rating in fourth quarter/OT of one-po se sion game. (How well does a QB play in crunch time?)Both components are split by career, playoff and 2022 performance and weighted equally. Again, one thing these rankings don't include is championships, so you can save your "seven rings" argument. More on that later.WOW. Just when you think you've seen everything, Tom Brady on "Monday Night Football.'' Not bad for a 45-year old. After the Buccaneers offense stalled all night Brady did what all-time greats do and locked in. He led back-to-back touchdown drives complete with the latest go-ahead touchdown pa s in his career. Perhaps this best sums up his roller coaster season. Monday was the first win in his entire career down 13-plus points in the final five minutes of regulation. In Week 13 at the Browns, he suffered his first career lo s when leading by seven-plus points in the final two minutes of regulation. So, in each of the last two weeks, he's experienced something he's never done in 22-year career.Geno Smith continued his sensational season with his first fourth-quarter comeback win since 2014 as a member of the Jets. The Seahawks got the ball back down three points with under three minutes left and Smith marched them down the field for the win, Rawle Alkins Jersey culminating with a perfect strike on the run to D.K. Metcalf with three defenders in the area. What a throw by Smith, good for the first go-ahead touchdown pa s in the final five minutes of a game in his career. Joe Burrow's stock keeps rising after game-winning drives in back-to-back weeks against AFC playoff teams, the Titans and Chiefs. I wouldn't say he outplayed Patrick Mahomes in the fourth quarter Sunday, as the Travis Kelce fumble and Harrison Butker mi sed field goal ultimately cost Kansas City, but it was impre sive how he led two methodical drives to win the game. One to take the lead, capped by a touchdown pa s to Chris Evans, and another equally important drive to keep the ball out of Mahomes' hands, finished off with a key completion to Tee Higgins on third-and-11.Daniel Jones couldn't drive the Giants down for any points on their final eight drives as the Giants settled for a tie against the Commanders. He took three drive-killing sacks in the fourth-quarter and overtime, and just mi sed Darius Slayton on a deep ball late in regulation that would have put the Giants near field goal range. He has 0 game-winning drives since recording five in the Giants first seven games.Justin Fields continued his recent trend of much-improved play and some highlight reel runs but with little to show for it in the fourth quarter. He threw an interception in a one-point game late in the fourth quarter on a nice play by Jaire Alexander Jarrod Uthoff Jersey to jump the route. Fields did stare down his receiver a second too long in my opinion. Fields has the worst fourth-quarter pa ser rating in the NFL this season and Chicago has the worst record in one-score games (1-6), a definite area of growth entering 2023. Justin Herbert made a superhuman touchdown pa s on 4th-and-long to Keenan Allen to bring the Chargers within a score and had them driving for what was shaping Wenyen Gabriel Jersey up to be a similar comeback to last week's in Arizona. The Chargers drive stalled though and Herbert mi sed on an all-or-nothing deep shot on fourth down as LA lost by seven. All five of the Chargers games since their bye have come down to the wire but they've come out on top in just two of those five games.Week 14 Clutch QB Index1 Miami Dolphins QB Tua has converted on 11 of 15 career game-tying/go-ahead drive chances in the fourth quarter/OT and his career pa ser rating in the fourth quarter/OT of a one-score game is 120.2. Both are the best career numbers of any current starting QB. He's backed up the numbers with big plays late in victories over the Bills and Ravens this season, before coming up short against the 49ers in Week 13. It's hard to fault him though as his fourth-down pa s to Mike Gesicki was initially ruled a completion before being overturned by replay. That was pretty much all she wrote as the 49ers pulled away afterward. P.S., another reason we shouldn't be too shocked to see Tua at No. 1 ... remember when he threw a walk-off touchdown pa s to DeVonta Smith in the National Championship game after coming off the bench? Big moments clearly don't phase Tua.2 Cleveland Browns QB Watson has converted on 45% of his game-tying/go-ahead drive chances in his career, fifth in the NFL. He has a sizzling 117.4 pa ser rating in late, close situations, second in the NFL, and it's nearly perfect (149.1) in the playoffs. He's one spot ahead of Mahomes in the rankings as Mahomes has thrown two costly INT's late this season, and Watson didn't have any clutch chances in his 2022 debut against the Texans. We'll see how he performs down the stretch.3 Kansas City Chiefs QB Mahomes has converted on nearly 60 Lonzo Ball Jersey % of his game-tying/go-ahead drive chances in both the regular season and the playoffs. His regular season rate ranks second behind Tua. His playoff rate is best in the NFL. After costly late picks in lo ses to the Colts and Bills this year, he bounced back in a huge way with comeback wins against the Titans and Chargers. It's hard to blame him for the lo s to the Bengals as Travis Kelce's early fourth-quarter fumble was the turning point in the game, and Mahomes didn't get the ball back after Harrison Butker's mi sed field goal.4 Green Bay Packers QB Rodgers doesn't get the clutch credit quite like Brady because of his one ring, but his career conversion rates in the regular season (42%) and playoffs (56%) are both virtually identical to Brady's. He did enough on Sunday to continue his ownage of the