(03-03-2023, 08:57 AM)imtheblkranger Wrote:

(03-03-2023, 12:11 AM)leopold332002 Wrote:  If anyone on here thinks that Trevor Lawrence is a top 15 quarterback is an idiot and don't know football. He's a top 5 quarterback and top 7 at worst.

I had this argument at work recently. It was during the probowl announcement and I said a top 5 QB should be in regardless. To which everyone initially was like "no way is Trevor a top 5 QB" So I'm like ok who's ahead of him?

Mahomes
Allen
Burrow
Hurts

Then who do you put above him? Herbert who he beat twice this year? Tua? Goff? Give me Trevor over those 3 any day. 

After I spelled that out for them, they backtracked and said they'd all take Herbert over him (no surprise) but I made a good point on it. They conceded he's "top 10 at minimum"

Who really thinks Hurts is unequivocally above Trevor?

When I think about QB ranking I think about who could swap teams and do better than who.

For Trevor there's only one QB that I'm convinced would do better than him if they swapped teams, and that's Mahomes.

Josh Allen and Joe Burrow? Maybe, but I'm not without doubt that they'd be as good with the Jaguars roster as they are with their own team, or that Trevor wouldn't also throw for 35 TDs if he were throwing to their receivers.

Hurts? He's on a nice run in a similar way to how Lamar Jackson has been, but I could see him being the next Kaepernick as easily as being the next Steve Young.

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