Looking around the NFL, we are seeing a renaissance at the quarterback position. The league has been steadily shifting toward quarterback-centric offenses and any team without consistent and productive quarterback play is at a disadvantage.
The AFC North looks to be highly competitive in 2020 and it all starts with a very diverse group of quarterbacks. Here’s our ranking going into the offseason.
4-Cincinnati Bengals
Sorry Bengals fans but until Cincinnati drafts Joe Burrow they don’t have him. And honestly, for 2020 even if the Bengals do draft the former LSU star, they wouldn’t move up. For now it is going to once again the Andy Dalton as the starting quarterback until further notice and this means the team will once again struggle.
3-Cleveland Browns
Quarterback Baker Mayfield came back to Earth in his second NFL season. The guy who inspired a city in 2018 couldn’t get his team to take further steps in 2019 and the team is once again in the midst of an overhaul of the coaching staff. Mayfield has a ton of NFL potential but even with all those weapons around him, he couldn’t make good use of them.
2-Pittsburgh Steelers
All signs point to a return of Ben Roethlisberger and that is the only reason the Steelers rank so high. When he update these rankings later in the offseason everything could change once the Steelers get an injury update in February. We saw just how back the Steelers quarterback situation is without Big Ben and don’t ever want to survive a season like that again. But Roethlisberger is a future Hall of Famer and at 100 percent is still among the best in the league.
1-Baltimore Ravens
It’s Lamar Jackson’s world and we are all just living in it. Jackson and the Ravens are revolutionizing the quarterback position with Jackson’s ability to beat defenses with his arm and his feet. Jackson is only getting better and every team must focus on trying to find ways to slow him down.
