Everyone around the NFL has spoken to determine the best the league has to offer, with plenty of discourse centering on rankings, as always. Let's take a look at the next phase, specifically at the game's most important position. As they do every year, the players voted for the league's Top 100 for the 2024 season, Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts and Dak Prescott were named the league's top-five quarterbacks.
NFL executives had a similar list with Mahomes, Joe Burrow, Allen, Jackson and Matthew Stafford among their top five, per ESPN's Jeremy Fowler . All of those names will be taken out of the equation. Beyond that point exists an exciting group of signal-callers ready to establish themselves as elite performers.
Five stand out with the potential to cement their status among the league's superstars. Some are already on the verge. Strong back-to-back seasons will go a long way to establishing consistency.
A leveling up of another's game seems forthcoming. The final possibility is based purely on potential, with as much upside as anyone has seen at the position. A standout season this fall will almost certainly place them in rare company.
One season was all C.J. Stroud needed to place himself among the league's best quarterbacks.
His 2023 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year campaign for the Houston Texans already had him in some conversations as a top-five quarterback. But he can put any discussion to rest by building upon last year's outstanding rookie ef.