Wentz looked marginally better against the 49ers in Philadelphia’s first win this season. Haskins had 45 attempts and only nine traveled at least 10 yards in the air. Mayfield’s 2019 season wasn’t as bad as the stats showed, but there was a clear dropoff in his performance. If Jackson is on the field, he's an immediate threat to score. High-end quarterbacks who can carry a team. But let's not kid ourselves. His overall PFF grade of 76.0 is good enough to rank 17th in the league, thanks in part to some impressive rushing plays. Turnovers, turnovers, turnovers. Watson creates big plays inside and outside the pocket, but he’ll often try to do too much in the pocket, leading to too many sacks and turnover-worthy plays. The NFL’s reigning iron man hasn’t missed a start since 2006, so you know he’ll be healthy, but at 38 years old and in a new offense for the first time in forever, can we really expect him to keep averaging 4,400 yards a season as he’s done this whole decade? As we prepare for the 2020 season, here's our ranking of all 32 NFL starting quarterbacks. Justin Herbert, Los Angeles Chargers: The rookie top-10 pick’s deep ball is a work of art, and he’s the league’s highest-rated passer on third down. His time with the Jets may be coming to a close as they head inexorably towards Trevor Lawrence. 9. He has been an above-average quarterback in his nine years but has ranked in the 20s in PFF grading in each of the past three seasons. In a given year, quarterback performance is somewhat dependent on the pieces around him, and that’s why you annually see traditional statistics fluctuate for the middle class of signal-callers. He was leading the NFL in PFF grade through five weeks, and we know from previous play that he has this level of performance within him — even if the last time we saw it was some time ago. He’s missed only one start since 2018 and has given the Texans an average of nearly 4,500 total offensive yards per season through the air and on the ground. Even with those two rough outings, Allen’s 85.9 PFF passing grade is a top-five mark and more than 20 grading points higher than any other year of his career. Dalton has elite receivers to work with, but his offensive line will be a problem, and we haven’t seen consistently high-level play from him for the better part of half a decade. That play featured some wild outliers that were certain to regress to the mean, and that’s exactly what we have seen. If not for Deshaun Watson and Patrick Mahomes, neither the Chiefs nor the Texans would be where they are today, and K.C. Beathard. There’s an awful lot to like about Gardner Minshew, but he still needs to show us a bit more to vault up this list. We’ll see if that holds up when the competition becomes more fierce. Roethlisberger has dazzled NFL fans plenty of times in the past, and when he’s been active over the past few seasons, he’s been prolific, but last season felt like the beginning of the end for the future first-ballot Hall of Famer. Jared Goff, Los Angeles Rams: Still no complaints about the league’s highest-rated passer in one-score games. 1 overall pick endured lots of justified criticism for a 2019 backslide that saw the one-time preseason MVP candidate devolve into backyard play under Freddie Kitchens. 5 overall mark (85.3) and has just three turnover-worthy plays, the same number as Aaron Rodgers had in only one game against Tampa Bay. Newton’s ceiling is still evidently very high, but he hasn’t consistently hit it since 2015, and this season doesn’t look like doing that either based on the first six weeks. Nick Foles actually had a ranking entering the season because I didn’t see a scenario by which the Bears actually roll into the season starting Trubisky after trading for Foles to provide competition. Josh Allen, Buffalo Bills: Since drafting Allen in 2018, the Bills have done a great job of building their offense around him, and he’s in position to have a big statistical season in 2020. In a passing league, the passers are royalty. (Photo by Maxx Wolfson/Getty Images). Through six weeks, he has the No. Each game there is usually one play that makes you say, “Wow,” but he can’t seem to find more than that. That puts Kyle Allen back in the firing line, and while he has been better than last season in limited sample size, he has been stylistically the same player. Allen looks to have taken a huge step forward in his development, but he now needs to avoid crashing back down to earth after a couple of more familiar inconsistent games. Now he’s unfortunately dealing with COVID-19, and the Pats haven’t played since our last installment. We doubt it, especially with his interception figure nearly reaching a career high in 2019. Where do the rookies slot in? Your privacy is safe with us. When he was the starter in Buffalo, from 2015-2018, his numbers were much more respectable, averaging out to 3,221 passing yards, 19 touchdowns and six interceptions per 16 games. Many people point to his ability as a runner as a way to single Allen out for praise but, in our humble opinion, he’s still not doing enough to be ranked in the top half of the league’s QB crop. The Browns have been very good in four out of their six games this season, but Mayfield has not. 6. Covering the impact of coronavirus on the sports world. Is he the next star QB breakout? The return of Roethlisberger hasn’t just been a huge boost to a team that had to endure Mason Rudolph and Devlin Hodges at quarterback in his absence, but it’s been an interesting study in adaptability, as he has returned a different player stylistically than the one that left. It’s safe to predict that Brees will rank among the league’s best at avoiding negatively graded throws once again, but keep an eye on the positively graded throws and the downfield passing, as that will determine how much success the Saints have during the stretch run this season. He lost DeAndre Hopkins in the offseason, which could seriously damage his passing figures, but we think Watson has more than enough talent to deserve this placement.