Every NFL fan has got their own ideas about what attributes are most important for a good quarterback to have. Do you value football IQ over athleticism? Pocket passing or mobility? Game manager or gunslinger? A great quarterback probably needs to pretty good in all of those areas. I thought it would be fun to share my list of the NFL's top forty-two quarterbacks.

Sports media nowadays is purely out for profit and clicks. It's ridiculous. NFL analysts are so skewed by what gets them the most clicks and the most money that their opinions end up sounding completely absurd.

I'm not about to claim that my rankings are more accurate than other people's. Ranking quarterbacks is not exactly rocket science and there are only so players to pick from anyway. But I will try my best to not be influenced by mainstream media.

I have my complete list already done and I will be spreading out my list throughout a series of posts. I used my own criteria and my own opinions to create my list.

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#42 - Jarrett Stidham - New England Patriots

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Stidham was a hard guy to rank, but in the end I just stuck him at the bottom of the list. He's mostly this low because I don't know squat about him. He seems like a very typical Bill Belichick dude. Completely unknown but ends up being solid.

He seems to be a very typical pocket passer. Good arm good accuracy and good awareness. Seems like a pretty natural thrower of the football.

Nothing really jumps off the screen for me when I watched some video of him. Very under the radar guy and could end up being better than this ranking but there is just a total lack of evidence when it comes to him so I couldn't really put him above well, anyone else.

# 41 - Taysom Hill - New Orleans Saints

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I know a lot of people will be surprised to see Hill this low but I'm just not sold on him being a full-blown starting caliber NFL quarterback yet. I know the guy played QB in college pretty well but he was also injured a lot.

I like Hill being used as an all-around weapon as he is currently used in New Orleans. He is legitimately problematic for opposing defenses, don't get me wrong. People want to compare him to Lamar Jackson, but he is probably more like a Cam Newton. But Hill is unique from Newton as well.

Hill is used as a true swiss army knife. I don't think there is an offensive skill position they didn't use him in last season. QB, RB, FB, TE, WR, everything.

But as a pure QB? I had trouble ranking him very high. Similar with Stidham, I just haven't seen enough yet out of Hill. I know their head coach Sean Payton claims he wants Hill as possibly their starting QB in the future, but a part of me wonders if the coach is just playing mind games for the league to ponder.

#40 - Jameis Winston - New Orleans Saints

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I'm pretty sure I have fallen victim to the 'Jameis Winston is better than his thirty interceptions, hOw mAnY quARtErbAcKs caN ThrOW fOr fiVE tHOusaND yArdS???' narrative. Really makes me annoyed when I hear crap like that. I find it totally dumb if you think that just because he threw for a lot of yards in 2019 that it means he's any good. A part of being a quarterback is being able to keep your team IN the game, not single-handedly take your team out of it.

It's honestly not hard to fathom how he threw for so many yards. The dude is usually coming back from behind or he is panicking and chucking 50/50 balls. He is a gunslinger so he gets lucky often.

He is a solid backup in my opinion.

What do you think of my rankings and reasons behind them?

Hive on!