Just when it looked like the NFC South‘s elite group of quarterbacks was coming back down to earth with Cam Newton departing, the Buccaneers went out and signed six-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady.
And just like that, the Atlanta Falcons will enter another season with Matt Ryan — a former MVP and one of the most prolific quarterbacks ever statistically — as an afterthought behind Brady and Drew Brees.
Ryan, despite being over six years younger than both Brady and Brees, is being ranked as the third-best quarterback in the division by many national media outlets.
On a recent episode of ESPN’s morning program Get Up, the four analysts were asked to rank the quarterbacks of the NFC South. Ryan consistently was picked as the third-best QB, and only Dan Graziano picked Ryan as the division’s No. 1 passer.
Watch the complete segment below, as shared by ESPN’s YouTube channel:
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