Top 10 Quarterback Heading Into Next Season.
The Quarterbacks At The Zenith Of Position Rankings Interact In A Similars Way As The Wide Receiver Position In Which The Players Ranked 1-4 Can All Move And Interchange Seamlessly At The Top Of Board. You Could Argue Otherwise But If You Assemble An argument Base OnThe Best Season of Each Option, Anyone Could Win. I think One Guy Holds Over His Head As The Universally Accepted Answer For The Top Spot, And No, I'm Not About To Drift Into The World Of Forced Evidence For Contrarian Argument Sake Against Patrick Mahomes At One. Still, The Gap Or Bridge Between Him, Mahomes, and The Other Guys Coming Up The Bend Has Only A Few Links, And In Any Order, The Chain Remains Strong. Have You Ever Scene One Of Those Animated Graphics That Maps Out The Season Leaders In Stats(Passing, Rushing, Receiving…) Or Wins With Lines On The Chart Overlapping Others As The Weeks Progress? That's How I Picture Quarterback Rankings. You Can Make The Argument,If Joe Burrow Beat Mahomes Once More In The AFC Champions(2023), Jamar Chase's Argument For Burrow As The Best Quarterback HAs Tons More Validity. If Anything, No Body Has A Better Argument Than Burrow, Only A Chip Missing From The Early Returns From His Career.
Maybe You Like Another Quarterback Before Mahomes Or Burrow, But Of This Class Of Quarterbacks, The Real Question Stands, Who Wouldn't You Like?
Unfortunately, For AFC Teams, The Players, One Through Four, Each Play On Lifetime Deals In One Conference.
The Quarterback Position Lead The Chiefdom Amongst NFL Offenses, But Their Place Atop Has Never Felt More Rickety With The Arms Of Offensive Revolution Swing Back And Forth.
I Don't Think I've Seen Any One Piece Of Digital Publication Just Get Swung Around Like Mike Sando's Quarterback Tiers Ranking. An Annual "Blend Up" Of Votes And Opinion From League Executives That Mr. Sando, One Of The Athletic's Writers, Pools And Organizes into Tiers. In My Opinion, The List Has More Traditional Or Sentimental Value Than Credibility. Last Year Matt Ryan Ranked in Tier Two Despite An Obvious Decline In His Game. He Hadn't Played Top Tier Quarterback Since His Super Bowl Run. A lot Of The "Coaches and Executives" Opinion Come Out Skewed By Human Flawed Ability To Make Judgments And The Obvious Skewed To appeal to The Media's View Of Some. Execs won't Shed Their True Insights In The competition. The Tiers Read More Like Political Jargon.
In The Days Since Sando Drop The List, He's Made The Roads Of Features Like An Actor In Late Night TV Talk Shows To Promote A Movie.
Patrick Mahomes
Josh Allen
Joe Burrow
Justin Herbert
Jalen Hurts
Lamar Jackson
Jared Goff
Aaron Rodgers
Geno Smith
Kirk Cousins
1)
Patrick Mahomes
Patrick Mahomes Plays The Game At A 16 Bit Speed In A 12 Bit World. I've Written About Patrick Mahomes Before, And He's So Good At Football. He Reminds me Of The Fusion Character Vegito In Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3, Or Akuma In Super Street Fighter II Turbo; he's Too Good, Too Over Powered To choose To Fight With In The Game Because You Can't Lose. "it's Heavy" Patrick Mahomes Said Almost Humbly Bragging As He Supported The Weight Of The Trophy Given To The Number One Player Voted To The Top 100. The Top 100 List Always Drives Everyone Engaged "Manic" Because Of The Placement Of Some Players. Mahomes At Top Provides Weight And Stability. Where Else Can The Weight Of An Offense Get Felt, The Weight Of A Franchise, The Weight Of a Dynasty, The Weight Of The League. For The First Time Since Taking Over The League As Starter In 2018, The Patrick Mahomes Lead Chiefs Didn't Start The Season As The Imminent Super Bowl Favorites. The Division Got Stronger, Other Top Teir Predators In The AFC Looked Prome To Take The Prize And No More Tyreek Hill.
"This is definitely going to be a transition year where we try to figure out how we're going to have success with this team; it's gonna be different than the teams we've had," Mahomes said. Who Could Ask For A Better Transition Year Than Winning A Championship?
With All These Changing Elements, Patrick Mahomes Gave Us His Most Mature Season. Not His Best, Most Powerful, But His Most Controlled And Balanced, Like Master Yoda. In The Past, The Chiefs Too Often Allow The Wind and The Wheels Of Their Offense Spin Wildly. With Mahomes's Limited Strength, Mobility, And Flare For The Dramatic, The Andy Reid Offense Could Stretch The Realms of The Implausible Without Suffering Any Drawbacks From The Laws Of Physics. In 2022 Coming Around To The Final Game Into The Conference Championship, Mahomes's Attempt Level Drifted Into The Forties, With His Dropbacks Hovering Over 50. Even With The Then Gaudiest Numbers Of His Career, 5896 Yards With 48 Touchdowns And An Adjusted Completion Percentage By The End Of It All. Last, The Dropback Tapered Down By Mahomes Numbers Uniformed Across The Board. His YPA Steadied at 8, including The Playoffs, Almost reached 6000 Yards Passing, He Peak In The Regular Season At 5251 Yards. And Without He Still Managed To Break Drew Brees's Total Yards of 5570 Yards, All On His Way To His Second MVP Award. With a Cast Of Mostly Unfamiliar But Talented Receivers, Mahomes Made Magic. Hobbled In A Playoff Game And Facing A Surging Jaguars Teams Hungry To Make Noise, Mahomes Showed Moxie, "I'm not coming out of a playoff game," Mahomes would say later, "unless they take me out.". Mahomes Mustered Few More Drives and Lead The Chiefs On 75 Yard Game Winning Drive And Finished With 195 yards passing and two touchdowns, A Pedestrian Game By Expectation But The Drive Propel The Chiefs Further. The Drive Encapsulated The Chiefs Season. Never Did The Chiefs And Mahomes Looked Dominant. Instead, They Looked In Complete Control Of The Situation. This Season Moved Mahomes From The Status Of "Great" To Standard. Before Long "Mahomesian" Will Enter The Football Vernacular As A Bench Mark Of Great Passing Performances. That's The True Marker Of A Superior Performer.
2) Josh Allen
In The NFL and Football's Nature Not only As A Team Orientated Sport But A Team Dependent Sport Singling Out One Player As The Pure Best "Football" Contradicts The Reality Of The Game. Some Position Groups Alone, Say Offensive Lineman(Like Seriously, Whose The Best?)Present Too Much Of A Quandary To Work Through. Nevertheless, Bill's Quarter Josh Allen Plays The Game The Best Player In The Sport. Allen Really Took Over So Much Of The Bills' Offensive Responsibilities, Each Weekend Allen's Efforts Both In The Air and On The Ground Accounted For At Least 70% Of The Bills Offensive Output. Allen Finished Second On His Team In Rushing, 762, Second Best Mark Of His Career And Less Than Fifty Yards Short Of The Leader, And Finished The Season As One Of The League Most Explosive Runners. He's Really Like A Roaring River When Facing Defenders Downstream. He Registered 26 Runs Of 10 Or More Yards(NextGenStats). The Bills Stapled Together One Of The Weakest Offensive Lines, And NFL Teams Don't Fit The Linebacker Type That Can Handle Allen's Force and Fluidity. Those High Octane, Fast and Furious Moments When Everything Slows Down, That's When Allen Executes Better Than Anyone Else. Allen Ranked First In Passing rating Ranked And First In EPA In The NFL. His Passer Rating Under Pressure Actually Ranks Higher Than His Clean Pocket Play. His Legs And Ingenuity Still Falls Second To His Biggest Weapon, His Powerful Arm. No Other Offensive Option Threatens A Defense Like A Deep, But What Makes Allen So Vicious is that He Can Strike Deep Nearly Any Position And Still Hit His Mark Like A Sniper. He Leads All Quarterbacks In Deep Yards(1386), Deep Attempts(104) And Finished Second With 12 Touchdowns While Throwing Five Interceptions. The Only Thing I Believe Stop Allen From Propelling Into The MVP Stratosphere And Staying There, Processing And Poise.
3)Joe Burrow
How You Rank Joe Burrow Amongst The Big Three Of Quarterback This era Falls In Line More With How You'd Rank Starburst Amongst Candies Like Skittles and M&Ms, Or English Car Brand Jaguar Amongst Luxury Car Or Green Lantern Amongst The Greats Of The Justice League, He's Just As Good, And You Can Argue Why You'd Take Him Over Other Cogently. He's Not The Clear The Best, Despite The Championing Of His Number One Wide Receiver, Jamar Chase, Or Former Bengal Quarterback Carson Palmer. Both Chase And Palmer Accredited Burrow As The Best Receiver In The League. The Quickest Point Of Superiority For Burrow Starts With His Release and Accuracy, Or Maybe They're The Same. In The Game Of Football, Some Windows Get Labeled As "Open" (Can't Miss), Others "NFL open" (Adjustment And Touch Needed). He Sees The Game From My Profile With Batman Sonar Vision, And You Have The Best Visual Of His Prowess As He Attacks The Middle Of The Field, Throwing Darts Through Fields Of Bodies. According to Pro Football Reference, Burrow has an on-target throw rate of 79.3%. He's Feeling The Field And Watching The Angles. Burrow Hit Best When Targeting Outside Because That's Where His Two Best Targets, Tee Higgins And Jamar Chase, Reside. The Duo Accounts For 231 Of Joe Burrow's 606 Passing Attempts, And Those Passing Often Fall In Line To Their Target. According To PFF, Burrow Led The League In Their Passing Grade Metric In Back To Back Season. Burrow Finished His Second Complete Season In The Pros With 4474 Passing Yards, 35 Passing Touchdowns, and 12 Interceptions and Leading The League In Completion Percentage at 68.3%. Burrow's Game Doesn't Have A Weakness Though He Lacks The Next Level Attributes Of Some Of His Contemporary. Suppose Burrow Can Take His Game To Another LEVEL Anywhere. In that case, His Arm won't Improve Tremendously. Still, he is Getting The Ball Downfield With Alacrity And His Outside Of Pocket Creativity. Again That's Where Mahomes and Allen Have Him Bested. In The Pocket, Burrow Finished First In Passing Grade And The Same Grading In The Shotgun, But He's Far Less Lethal On The Move.
4)Justin Herbert
Justin Herbert Finished the 2022 Season in The Playoffs But On A Down Turn Number Wise. The Beauty Of Falling From The Star You Land On The Moon With Your Sights Reset Upwards, And You Can Always Fall Forward Again. The Chargers Franchise Watch His PFf Grade Drop From 90 To 78 Even As He Leads The Chargers To The Playoffs. The Deep Bomb Marksman From A Year Ago Turned Into Something Of A Pacifist Or An Oppenheimer-Like Apologist For The Destructive Force He Let Free On The World. His Average Depth Of Target Fell To 29th, Not The Figure You Expect From Justin Herbert, And His yards Per Attempt Fell 7.1 Yards Per Attempt. The Charger's injuries, Piled On, And The Offense Sputtered Continually. Herbert's Style Of Play With His Awkward Arm Angles And A fastidiousness In Looking Downfield, He Desires Those Big Targets. Those Launch angles Hurt Herbert's Potential Some Because He Can't Strike Layered Throws. With Herbert, You Don't Care Too Much Fir Accuracy; You Care For Thrust, But His Completion Percentage Rose To 4th, 73.8%, The Best Figure Of His Young Career As Herbert Feasted On Lower Hanging Fruit In The Shorter Areas Of The Field.
Nevertheless, Herbert's Arm Power Demands Flexion, And He Still Manages To Reign Thunder Like Thor Down The Field, Scoring A 93.1 Grade On Throws Of 20 Yards or Better Down The Middle. He Did A Good Job With His 6'6 Frame Looking And Firing Shots Over The Middle. even With His Penchant For Down Field Arson, Herbert Still Manage To Keep His Bad Throw Percentage Down Around 12.9%. Herbert Didn't Hit 5000 Yards Like Last Season, But His 4700+ Still Put Him Above 14,089 Passing yards For His Career, The Best Mark Of Any Quarterback Through Three Years, with A New Offensive Coordinator Just Lost He Last Job Because He Like To Score Too Much. Herbert's Arm, I Expect A Rise In Those Numbers. Counting On Keenan Allen And Mike Williams To Stay Healthy Feels Like A False "Hope," But The Chargers Have A New Weapon On Board Quentin Johnston Out Of TCU. He's A Mike Williams Clone And Fit Into A Niche Outside And Inline Where The Chargers Lack Strength. The Offensive Overhaul Could Go Wrong. If Herbert Leans In Too Much On His Arm Talent, He Might A Little Super Man Set Off The Rails. Oppenheimer Needs To Step Aside, A New "father of the atomic bomb" Has Emerged. The Chargers Rewarded Herbert With The Latest Riches Deal In NFL History A five-year, $262.5 million contract extension ($52.5 million On Average Yearly ), And Injunction To Remaining Two Years Of His Rookie Deal. "I sleep better at night knowing we have a franchise quarterback," Chargers general manager Tom Telesco said(ESPN).
5)Jalen Hurts
"He Wants To Be Great Player In this League For A Long Time, And He Wants To Win... He Doesn't Take A Day Off." Dallas Goedert Said. of Jalen Hurts Every Year Football Introduces So Many "Inspiring" Stories That The Motif Of "Inspiration" Becomes Cliched. I Can Think Of Any One NFL Player Who Just Didn't Get Fitted With Mounds Of Adversity In Some(Injury, Financial, Education, Institutional, Etc.) Before They Broke Through. Jalen Hurts Still Boost Of The MOST Inspiring Story In The League And How He Carries Acclaim In A Way That He's Unfazed By The light Of It All. Very Rarely Does A Quarterback Prospect Enter The League Whose Biggest Question About His Games Strings From The Passing Aspect Of His Game And Not Just The Quality Of Passing But Whether He Can Pass At All. When The Eagles Drifted Jalen Hurts In The Second In 2020, The Pick Justifiably Appears As A Worthwhile Experiment, Stash, And Develop Type While Carson Wentz Returned To MVP Form The Eagles. The Planned Look Seamless. The Faith, History and Confidence Moved Hurts Into The Lead Position.
As The Biblical Narrative Goes, "Last Shall Be First," And Even With The Narrative Buttressing Him, Hurts Didn't Look Destined Or Poised To Take The Eagles To New Heights. His First Season As THe NEwly Installed Starter Transpired And Ended With A Whimper, Fuzzy Static, And Brief Intermission Like A Murky Mystery Show Cancelled On A Cliff, Hanger Which Culminated In A Playoff Loss. From Hurts's Days As A Freshman At Alabama Where Nick Saban Speared Headed An Unimaginative Offense That Prioritized Hurts's Athletic Power More Than His Arm. Even After A Season Honing His Passing Skills At Oklahoma University And A Full Season As A Pro Hurts As A Passing, Still Resembled A Quarterback Playing With The Clock Set Back An Hour. After 2021 One Had To Wonder If Hurts Would Ever Get To Level Demanded Of So Many "Athletic First" Quarterback Who Need To Diligently Seek Development. Like Sherlock Holmes, By The End Of One Of His Murder Mysteries, Hurts Put All Of The Components Of His Game Together Last Season. Due To Injury, Hurts's Career Season Didn't Turn Out As Grand As The Trial He Set Early In The Indicated. Even After The Eagles Suffered Their First Loss, Hurts Still Held The Favorite Odds To Win The MVP and Pass For Over 4000 Yards Passing. Even Without A Full Scale Of Games, Hurt Finished in the Top Ten In Average Depth Of Target(8.5), And That was Primarily Because His Two Favorite Targets, AJ Brown And Devonta, Really Exploded Off The Rails For The Eagles. On An Accuracy Scale, Hurts Produced An On Target Throw Rate Of 77.8%. The Game Didn't So Much Slow For Him As Much Everything Right His Accentuated Along With Eagles Talent. He's Still Not The Strongest Arm, But The Conflict He Creates As A Running Threat Just Carve Windows Open All Over The Field. He's A Triple Threat Quarterback, Running, Throwing, and Thinking The Game Of Football, An Almost Super Sayian 3 Level Evolution To His Game. (Super Syrians Don't Evolve But an I Couldn't Fit/Find The Right Pokémon Reference). Hurts Lead The Eagles To The Super Bowl A Year After Everyone Questioned Whether The Eagles Had A Quarterback Of Any Kind. Jalen Hurts, For One, He's Paid Now The Eagles Fitted Him With A five-year contract extension worth Up to $255 million With Incentives and $179 million guaranteed. The Type Of Money Unthinkable After The Tampa Bay Lost IN The Wild Card Round.
6)Jared Goff, Lions.
The Lions Overcame The Slow Start To The Season To Make a Late Season Seize For The Playoffs, And Even Though Faye Would Pass The Playoffs To The Seahawks, Goff And The Left The Regular Season On A tear. In Goff's Final Year With The Rams, He Found Himself Plagued By A Bit With The "Whoopsy" He Brandish Turnovers Like Badges Of Honor, And The Rams Super Window Look Assured To Perish. During The Lions Final Run For The Playoffs, Goff Took Care Of The Ball Better Than Any other Quarterback, not throwing an interception in the final nine games, and Currently holds A streak of 324 straight passing attempts without a pick. With Just A Few Week To The Season, He's Well In striking Range For The Record.
"I've been on the wrong side of many of those in my career, so it seems like it's balancing out now, and it's been a good little streak going." A lot Of Football's Checks And Balances Appear On The Verge Of Evening Out For Goff. In Just two seasons In Detroit, He's Climb Back Up The Ranks As A Premiere Quarterback. All Of The Attributes Goff Displayed Before The Draft Became Reanimated. With his Touch On The Ball, Decision Making Pocket Navigation, Goff Played The Game To His Strengths. It Took What The Defense Failed To Account For In The lion'sLions Endlessly Creative Offense. Goff Picked 4438 Passing Yards, Good Enough For Sixth, 29 Touchdowns, and 7 Interceptions(Tied For The Best Mark In His Career) At A Steady Completion Rate With An Adjusted Completion Percentage Of 77.8. Goff Didn't Stripe Down The Notion Of Him As A Check Down Monster. He Only Average 7.0 Intended Air Yards Per Attempt, A Conservative Strategy Whose Results FAvor The Lions More Times Than Not Last Season. That's All The Lions Needed Of Him, and Instead, He Attacked Spots Open That Open Windows And Helped Produced The Fifth Best Passing Offense By DVOA. Goff Dominated Most Football Outsiders' Advance Metric Such Passing DVOA, Yar son Top Of Finishing Fifth In QBR All Of This Statistical Reference Point Out How Much Goff Succeeded Above His Peers Last Season Despite Attracting Less Attention Than Others. The Expectations For Goff Next Season Will Obviously Shift. The Only Finished One Three-Point Loss To The Seahawks From Making The Playoffs. Goff May Have To Take His Focus Off Of The Interception And Take A More Aggressive Approach Aa Team Look To Claw Out Those Check Opportunities. His Entire Offensive Pantry Will Change. Only Two Of The Top Receivers From Last Year Will Play in Week One, Amon-ra St.Brown, And Josh Reynolds. The Lion Traded TJ Hockenson Mid Season, Jameson Williams Will Serve A Suspension For Gambling, DJ Chark Moved On To Carolina. The Run Turns Over, Out Go Both Jamal Williams and De'Andre Swift, And In Come Jahmyr Gibbs And David Montgomery. The Lions Depend On Their Offense. The Brian Johnson Brain Lead The League In Total Points For Most Of The Year And Finished Fifth, The Lions Also Finished Top Five In Points Per Drive.
7)Lamar Jackson
Lamar Jackson Makes His Place In The Quarterback Top Ten Unstable. I'm Not Saying Unstable Because Of His Health; I'm Saying Unstable Because Of His Obvious Knee, But His Health Destroys Any Hope Of Cement A Lasting Legacy On The Position. He's Missed 10 Games (Not Including Playoffs) Over The Last Two Seasons, And Those Absences Became The Driving Force For Jackson's Quarterback Battle. The Injuries Hurt Jackson In Every Way, But His Production Rivaled The Best. He's The Most Dangerous Football Player On At Any Point In A Play. We all Respect The Trump Card Of Jackson's Feet, His Mobility Stresses Defenses More Than any Other Quarterback Because He Can Reach Down Field Completion Yardage in One Motion. According To NFL Next Gen Stats, Lamar Jackson Generated An 88 Explosive Run Score. It Tallied 36.6% On Runs Of 15 MPH Or Better. Only Justin Fields Bested Him In Quarterback Running. Without The Threat Of His Legs, Jackson is Not Much Of A Quarterback. He Can Take Off Like Pan And Glide Into Yardage, Dangerous Always. He's Growth As A Pocket Passer And A Thrower, Who Possess Every Throw In His Quiver. PFF Ranked Him As One Of Best Passers From Inside The Pocket. Jackson Still Lacks Accuracy In His Passing. He's Present Touch and Decision, But Too Much Of The Windows He Throws Into A Stretch Either By The Threat Of His Running Or the Superior Size And Speed Of Mark Andrews. His Deep Ball Can Prove Threatening, But He's A Frequent Flyer Or Bomb Dropper. He's Shown Special Touch Over The Middle And A Keen Sense Of Where Voids Open Before those Windows Close; Some Call That Ability Anticipation. Jackson, In His Tim In Baltimore, has Never Experienced The Pleasure Of Playing High-Level Weaponry. As A result, His Numbers Need to Get The Benefit Of A lot Of Action After The Catch. This Year Lamar Looks Across The Field At His Best Bevy Of Receiving Options He's Ever Witness. A Replenished Odell Beckham With A New ACL, Rookie Zay Flowers Join Rashod Bateman And Mark Andrews. With A New Offensive Coordinator And A New Paid, Pressure Turns Back On Lamar To Deliver For The Ravens In A Wilderness In The North, Fraught With Competition But Obtainable. Jackson Improved His Passing Over The Years, But He Remains One Of The Least Accurate Quarterback In The League. At Age 26, How Much More Will His Accuracy Improve? New Offensive Coordinator Todd Monken May Look To Have Jackson Pass The Ball Far More Than Gregg Romans Required Of Him. According To PFF's Ball Placement tracking Data, Pittsburgh Steelers Rookie Kenny Pickett Threw With A Accurate Passing Percentage Than Lamar Jackson And Finished Below Average And Near The Bottom Of The League. Lamar May Also Need To Kick Up His Drop Backs Up A Wrung. He Took More Than 40 Drop Backs Once Last Year In An NFL where 40 Only Touches The Benchmark Expected, And Only Produces 186.8 Per Game Passing. One Can Only Assume He'll Produce Better Numbers With Better Weapons And A Offense Tune To Passing. Of Course, You'd Play A Dangerous Game Assuming.
8)Aaron Rodgers
I still Believe Aaron Rodgers Deserves His glory As A Top Ten Quarterback, If Only For The Fact That Very Little Competition For Candidacy. Last Season Aaron Rodgers Dealt With The Most Sinking Turmoil Of His Career. His Top Target Of maybe The Past 7-8, Devante Adams, Demanded A Trade. Did I Mention Adams Also Dominated The League as The Best Receiver In The Game At The Time? His Offensive Coordinator, Nathaniel Hackett, Quarterback Coach, Luke Getsy, Leave For head Coach and Offensive Coordinator Positions In Other Cities (Denver For Hackett And Chicago Fir Getsy, Respectively), And The Packers Brain Trust Begin A Youth Movement. The Packers Drafted Two Wide Receivers And Thrust Allen Lazard Into The Number One Position. Did I Mention That His Left Tackle, David Bakhtiari, Miss A Good Chunk Of The Season, But The Offensive Line Held Up Well? If those Statements Read Like A Synopsis For A Football Horror Thriller, You Get The Image. This Concoction Of Football Turnover Created The Least Intimidating Version Of The 4x NFL MVP. The defenses Played Loads Of Press Coverage, Enticing The Packers To Pass The Ball.
Rodgers Put Forth A Valiant Effort Not Only On The Field But Composing His Emotions. "Frustration and (misery) are two different emotions," he said. "…when I decided to return, it was all-in…". Rodgers Accumulated A Pedestrian 3695 Passing Yards. Despite his Claims Of "All In," Sometimes You Had To Wonder If Aaron Rodgers Really Wanted To Play Football Anymore, Like The Fun Left When Adams Departed. Still, He Never Appears To, Waver Even As Good Passes Fell To The wayside. I could hear Aaron Rodgers Saying To His Younger Receivers, "You Gotta Catch My Passes at This Stage Are Limited Edition." Of The Packers Receiver On Randall Cobb Caught More Than Seventy Percent Of His Targets.
Rodgers Still Held His Wizardry In The In The Red Zone. Rodgers Nabbed 17 Red Zone Touchdowns And The Second Best Completion Percentage Of Any With At Least 60 Attempts. Those Confine Spaces Work Well For Rodgers, He Feasted On Screen And Short Area Completion While Texting Stem Throws On Occasion. Rodgers Remain Impressively Accurate Whiles Remaining Even More Impressively conservative. The Results Of Those Conservative Action, Rodgers Finished 20th In EPA Per Play. The Jets Made The Move From Aaron Rodgers After Rodgers Declared His Intentions To Play In New York Next Season. Rodgers Reunites With Nathaniel Hackett In New York And Pair With One Of The Best Offensive Corps In The NFL. The Jets Just Signed Dalvin Cook To Roam Out Of The Back Field, On Top Of Offensive Rookie Of The Year Garrett Wilson And Running Back Breece Hall Coming Off Of An ACL Injury. The Jets Brought Over Allen Lazard Over From Green Bay. The Jets Offensive Line Remains A Work In Progress, And Rodgers Approaching 40 Will Need All The Protection Money Can Buy. At 40, Rodgers Looks To Bounce Back From His Weakest Offering As A Pro. I'm Not Counting On It, But Jets Fans Have That Twinkle In Their Eyes.
9)Geno Smith, Seahawks.
I Don't Think Anybody Expected To Receive The Performance That Geno Smith Delivered. Even Before Day One Of Last Season, When He Squared Off With Russell Wilson, Smith Faced Drew Lock For The Number One Quarterback Chart, And The Battle Looked Even Decision To Start The veteran Geno Smith As Tye Bridge Quarterback For The Seahawks, Myopic. A "Brutal" Dilemma With An "Unspectacular" Champion Turned Into an Unexpected Berth And Legendary Story Of Inspiration Even By NFL. In The Hands Of The Man where Hope went to Die, The Seahawks Find New Flight. A Career Year For Geno Of Begins The Panegyric. He Threw For 4282 Passing Yards, 30 Touchdowns And 11 Interceptions. Whoever Thought Russell Wilson And Geno Were Polar Opposites In Terms Of Play Style, Not Entirely, The Diverse Pyrotechnics. According To PFF, Geno Smith Hit Deep Routes Better Than Anyone In The League, His 99.3 Grade Made Him Always Perfect When Connecting With His Guys Like Tyler Lockett, DK Metcalf And Tights End Will Dissly, And Noah Fant.
Furthermore, PFF Data Place Geno 25% More Accurate Than The Average Quarterback Throwing Deep Passes. Even In His Days With The Jets, Geno Always Demonstrated Good Touch On The Ball, Just Not Good Touch On Where Those Ball Feathered Away Too. Accuracy And Outcome Don't Come Packaged Together as Qualities. Some of his Best Performances, Like Week 4 Against The Lions When The Seahawks Needed 48 Points Just To Skate By With A Win, But Geno Delivered Some Of His Best Play Of His Career. Along The Boundaries, He Delivered Multiple Strikes To DK Metcalf. Smith earned a 92 NGS passing score, According To Next Gen Stats That Week Upon Completing 23/30 Passes For 320 Passing Yards And Two(2) Touchdowns And An Announcement To League That The Seahawks won't Wash Away This Season. After Ten Years Of Football Geno Smith His Arrival. Throughout The Season, Geno Smith Completed Nearly 70% Of His Passing, Only Settling On 68% By Season End And Still Leading The League. Considering The Depth Of Targets He Chose, Geno's Leading The League In Completion Looks Better Than Thing Else He Achieved This Season. He Leads The League With Lowest Percentage Of Bad Throws(11.8%). The Seahawks Rewarded Geno With A New Contract And His Place Heralding The Offense For At least Another Two Seasons. How The League and The Seahawks Plan To Transpose and Project Geno Smith's Production From Last Season Into Remains The Chief Question Going Forward. Any Economic Or Football Forecaster Knows You Can't Project Future Success Based On Present Circumstances.
10)Kirk Cousins
Somewhere In His 35 Year Old Body, In The Fiber Of His Decision To Use Reason When Reason Defies Reason(I'm Still Looking At That Check Down Fourth Decision), Rest A MVP Season. Maybe Not An MVP Award But A Season When Kirk Cast Aside The Narrative Of a Quarterback Whose Just "Good Enough." Even If You Watch The Vikings Play, Once You Recognize Kirk's Game, He Runs The System, Or At least The System Runs Him. Every Offense Has One Goal: To Put 7s On The Board As Often As Possible, With The Goal CLEAR How Becoming The Work In Progress. Systems Tell Quarterbacks Where To Go With The Ball Like A GPS. Some Quarterbacks Run Their System Like Han Solo, Breaking From The Norm And Target The Places And Spots The Defense Leaves Vulnerable Or Wherever The Quarterback Desires To Attack. The Best Of Any Sphere Of Influence; Artists, Designers, Teachers, And Quarterbacks Break The Rules. Both Sides Of The Coin have Ridges And Grooves To Feel Through. What is Running The System Straight Off The Package? Running The System Vanilla Accentuates Kirk's Strength As A Quarterback, His Accuracy, Decision, Making, And Pocket Presence. Despite The Image Of Kirk As a Statuesque Quarterback Figure, He Delivered One Of His Best Performances Under Pressure Last Year, Finishing In The 83rd Percentile As A Parser And Producing The 8th Best EPA Under Pressure and The 6th Best Passer Rating. Under Pressure, That's Where The Acquisition TJ Hockenson Proved Most Crucial. The Former Division Foe Gave Kirk Another Talented Pass Catcher To BREACH the Gap Between Justin Jefferson And The Rest Of The Vikings Receiving Group. No One Targeted Their Inline Tight End More Than Kirk Last, And All Things Work, As He Never Threw An Interception When He Did Target His Tight End. Of Course, Than, Affinity, For His Tight End, Returned Bite The Vikes On The Final Play Of The Season. Although Not Famed For His Arm Strength, Kirk Can Hang A Deep Ball. Other Quarterbacks Make Deep Passing Look So Easy and Fluid That Kirks's Efforts Feel Like Fleeting In The Light Of Josh Allen.
Nevertheless, Kirk Can Swing Deep. The Ball Hangs, And Kirk Often Looks Charged Out Like A Pokémon After They Hyper-beam, Never The Less He Rip Chords In Opponent Secondary Better Than Average. PFF Accuracy Tracker Also Ranked Kirk, The 9th Most Accurate Quarterback In The NFL. Kirk Posted His Best Season In Passing Yardage, 4547, While Adding 29 Touchdowns Whiles Completing About 65% Of His Passes. Kirk Will Enter His Second Season In Head Coach Kevin O'Connell's System. He'll Also Lock In With Tight End TJ Hockenson For a Full Year, And The Addition Of First Rounder Jordan Addison. Kirk Has A MVP caliber Season In Him Somewhere, And Next Year, The Last Year Before His Contract Expires.
