QB Stock Market: Ranking All 32 Starters After the 2025 Regular Season

Welcome to the final dispatch of the 2025 QB Stock Market.

Typically, these rankings focus on what a quarterback has done for his team lately. This iteration is more traditional, in that we look at one's entire body of work for the season, measuring their impact when they were on the field (and offsetting that slightly with availability). We placed each club's primary starter into one of six tiers while also comparing their final ranking to where we ranked them ahead of Week 1.

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It was idealistic to think the Jets could take a Steelers castoff and make him their long-term starter. 

There was perhaps no greater disappointment in the NFL than McCarthy. Given what coach Kevin O’Connell had done with past quarterbacks not to mention the presence of Justin Jefferson, McCarthy seemed to have every reason to succeed. It’s now easy to imagine McCarthy will be the next Anthony Richardson, supplanted by a veteran before Week 1 in 2026.

We speculate all the time about knee injuries and shoulder injuries and hip injuries and how those issues might impact a QB’s long-term prospects. Well, for Tua, there are questions in those areas. But there’s also the matter of his concussion history. His injury history is why I’m betting against him being a full-time starter next year, wherever he lands.

He’ll have to pick himself up from the bottom — and likely elsewhere — yet again.

With the Raiders presumably selecting a QB with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, will Geno Smith be traded this offseason? (Photo by Candice Ward/Getty Images)

Penix’s injuries have been so severe that it’s fair to wonder if he