Every year right before the NFL regular season starts, The Athletic’s Mike Sando compiles the opinions of league officials on starting quarterbacks, placing the elite in Tier 1 and the not-so-elite in Tier 4 or Tier 5. To be more specific considering these surveys are anonymous, Sando notes that “the 50 league insiders who placed 30 veteran quarterbacks into tiers included eight general managers, 10 head coaches, 15 coordinators, 10 executives, four quarterbacks coaches and three involved in coaching/analytics.” The placements are averaged out to create the tiers and rankings within tiers.
No one was placed in Tier 5, so we’re running with four tiers for the 2023 edition.