2023 Pre-Season Rank #100, 2022 Pre-Season Rank #112. 2021 Pre-Season Rank #106, 2020 Pre-Season Rank #117.  Peak Period: 2017-19/2022-23

In 2018, Jared Goff led the Los Angeles Rams to a Super Bowl appearance.  They did not win, and although he won two Pro Bowls, the Rams gave up on him and traded the Quarterback to the Detroit Lions.  In Stafford’s first season in L.A., he won a Super Bowl, making Goff look bad in the process, but years later, it is Goff and the Lions who are the superior team.

Goff brought Detroit to the NFC Championship Game last year and was a Pro Bowl Selection in 2022.  Goff passed for 59 TDs and 9,013 Yards in the previous two seasons, and he has the supporting cast to do even better over the next two years. 

2023 Pre-Season Rank #73, 2022 Pre-Season Rank #70, 2021 Pre-Season Rank #52, 2020 Pre-Season Rank #83.  Peak Period: 2017-22*

Oh boy.   We had Watson pegged as a future Hall of Fame inductee, and even though he was leading a team in Houston that did not have the supporting cast to win a Super Bowl, nobody pointed the finger at Watson for that not happening.  Since then, Watson has been beset by scandals that cost him the entire 2021 Season and the first 11 Games of 2022, which may not be over yet. Watson was injured in 2023, and he will have to perform at an elite level for an extended period to alleviate the stench around his name.  

He has the talent and can put up the numbers, but this is one hell of a mountain to climb.  We try to make these lists on stats, as we think that is usually the deciding factor, but there are always extraordinary circumstances, and honestly, we don't know quite how to factor that in.  If this were any other sport, we likely wouldn't bother to rank Watson, but this is not any other sport.

*Watson missed the entire 2021 Season.

2023 Pre-Season Rank #44, 2022 Pre-Season Rank #55, 2021 Pre-Season Rank #63, 2020 Pre-Season Rank #80.  Peak Period: 2016-17/2021-23

There is no greater pressure cooker in the National Football League than being the Quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, and while Dak Prescott has been maligned in some circles for not winning a Super Bowl, the stat line shows that he has been very good.

The 2016 AP Offensive Rookie of the Year was last year’s runner-up for the MVP.  Last season, Prescott led the NF in Touchdown Passes (36), and if he can take the Cowboys to a Super Bowl, watch his HOF momentum skyrocket.

2023 2022 Pre-Season Rank #38, 2021 Pre-Season Rank #46, 2020 Pre-Season Rank #76. Peak Period: 2019-23

Quarterbacks who win multiple MVPs always enter the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and Lamar Jackson owns two after earning his second MVP last year.  Jackson destroys opponents with his arm but eviscerates them with his legs.  While never throwing for more than 4,000 Yards in a season, Jackson still has a Touchdown Pass Title in 2019 (36), and he could become the first QB to rush for 10,000 career Yards (he currently has 5,228) and already is the only pivot to rush for over 1,000 Yards twice. 

Jackson needs only a Super Bowl Ring, and they have the roster to give it to him. Once he does that, his Hall of Fame resume will be complete.