For the fifth straight year, ESPN NFL insider Mike Sando has polled a group of NFL executives and coaches in order to rank all 32 expected starting quarterbacks heading into the season. The quarterbacks are ranked individually from 1 to 32 and are also placed in one of five tiers. And while Cleveland Browns’ starter Tyrod Taylor has avoided the dreaded Tier 5, he still isn’t thought of as one of the more elite-level passers around the league.
Sando consulted “10 general managers, five head coaches, 10 coordinators, 10 senior personnel executives, five QB coaches and 10 others with job titles ranging from assistant coach to salary-cap manager to analytics director,” in compiling his rankings.