After a rough rookie season, there were plenty of people ready to write off Blake Bortles despite being the 3rd player drafted overall in the 2014 NFL Draft. It wasn’t completely outrageous to do so given how bad Bortles was by traditional and advanced metrics in 2014.
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Luckily for Jacksonville Jaguars fans, Bortles took a substantial step forward in his second season, posting a franchise single season record in both touchdowns (35) and yards (4,428). By most accounts, Bortles had all but solidified himself as at least a potential franchise quarterback.
Mike Sando of ESPN recently conducted a poll consisting of 33 coaches and evaluators on where they would rank each starting quarterback within 5 tiers – 1 being the best and 5 being the worst.