Jackson, Brady, Mahomes: Power ranking the top-ten NFL quarterbacks

As the 2022 NFL season is just one week away, it’s time to look at who are going to be the big players when it comes to the quarterback position. 

Anybody and everybody who follows the sport knows that the quarterback is the most important position on the field, and always will be. 

They are the ones who decide where the ball needs to be thrown, what adjustments need to be made at the line of scrimmage ahead of a play and more often than not have the fate of the game within their own hands, which is why they also happen to get the biggest contracts when it comes to getting paid.

The best example of this can be seen in the yearly MVP award voting. Since the year 2000, only four non-quarterbacks have taken the award, those being Marshall Faulk in 2000, Shaun Alexander in 2005, LaDanian Tomlinson in 2006 and Adrian Peterson in 2012. In every other year besides them, a quarterback took him the award.

And with the NFL continuing to be more pass-oriented as the years move on, that logic is not going to change, and so the quarterbacks will remain at the top of the tree. 

But just who is at the top of the tree in the quarterback room? That’s what we’ve looked to find out as we give you our power rankings for the top ten quarterbacks in the NFL heading into the 2022 season:

2021 stats – 4,449 passing yards, 37 TDs, 14 INTs

Has a very tough situation this year when it comes to his receivers, not knowing how Michael Gallup is going to be ready after his year out in 2021 due to injury, and having whatr could have been a very reliable #2 in James Washington go down injured in preseason. But the way he’s shown maturity in the past and having a great handle on the offence gives him the benefit of the doubt to be able to overcome those