The top quarterback on this list won’t surprise you. Patrick Mahomes has played in four of the last five Super Bowls. He’s won three NFL championships. He’s only 28 years old.
That’s made him one of only three active quarterbacks to have won a Super Bowl as a starter, joining Aaron Rodgers and Matthew Stafford. But while his place at the top is currently unquestioned, there’s a hungry cache of young passers capable of demoting him — just maybe not in 2024.
Fortunately, years of on-field performances and numbers have created a topographical map to help us figure out who is closest to Mahomes’ lofty plateau. There are 33 other quarterbacks who we can consider likely to start games in 2024 — Drake Maye, sitting behind Jacoby Brissett in New England and Justin Fields, behind Russell Wilson as a Pittsburgh Steeler, give us our two extras among the league’s 32 teams.
While ranking them 1-34 would be a subjective battle quickly undone by on-field results, a breakdown of these passers by tier offers a bit more utility. Let’s dive right in and argue about some quarterbacks.
