PREVIOUS 2026 PREVIEW ARTICLES The complete ranking of NFL QBs, 2026 edition Let's get into it! I ran out of time to do a review of last year's predictions; feel free to CLICK HERE to review those if you want. Some picks were good, some... weren't. We're going to count up from 32; I'll include my prediction for that team's final record. You'll note that the list isn't necessarily sorted by the projected record; naturally a team's strength of schedule can inflate (or deflate)

This is usually one of my favorite columns to write, mostly because of the (often faulty) narratives surrounding the quarterback position. So many internal biases go into these sorts of rankings (including my own), so I figured that one more opinion piece can't hurt. Unlike some, I'm going to take my lumps for past misses on these rankings; if a player was ranked in the four previous (2022, 2023, 2024 or 2025) versions of this column, that ranking will be presented so you can

QB accuracy has many definitions across the NFL and what people use to define it will vary greatly. Myself, I took a couple of measurments from the good people at stathead.com to see if I could find a meaningful yet simple metric. I looked at three of their advanced stats: On Target Throw % (pretty simple to grasp, the percentage of times a QB hits his target), Good Throw % (basically, the percentage of throws that aren't Bad Throws by their definition) and Intended Air Yards