2026 NFL Draft summer positional rankings: Quarterbacks
It's time. I've watched and written up 18 different quarterbacks. Let's rank them and tier them out.
We are nearing the return of football, just about a month out from live action. This means that 2026 NFL Draft summer scouting is winding down. It’s probably time to start dropping some positional rankings.
Why not start with the quarterbacks?
I’ve done a ton of work on this quarterback class. I have charted full profiles on 16 of these quarterbacks and have watched and written up 18 of these gunslingers. It’s time to rank and tier them.
After just one quarterback went in the top-20 this past draft, there are still a ton of quarterback-needy teams out there. They’ll be hoping this upcoming class yields a better crop.
So, who stood out? Which quarterbacks do I think are vastly underrated? Overrated? We’ve got a lot to talk about.
Holstering for now: Arch Manning, Texas
Arch Manning is extremely talented and comes from NFL bloodlines. But assigning him a grade or a ranking based on 100 dropbacks would be a reckless thing for me to do. So instead, I am going to let it play out a bit in 2025 first.
No shame to those who have ranked Manning! It’s just not something I am going to do yet.
We should know pretty early on, as Manning opens the season against Ohio State and plays Florida and Oklahoma in Weeks 5 and 6, respectively. By the middle of October, we will know if Manning is a legitimate threat to declare for the 2026 NFL Draft or not.
All indications early on, however, are that Manning will return to Texas for a fourth year no matter what. Minds can be changed, though, if first overall pick money is on the table.
17. Taylen Green, Arkansas
The Boise State to Arkansas transfer quarterback has some fans. He also has some fun tools as both a runner and a thrower. For Green, however, he has a bottomless floor as a player because he has perhaps the worst response to pressure I’ve ever evaluated in a quarterback. The moment he is breathed on, even against four-man fronts with no simulated or delayed looks, Green sees ghosts.
Not to mention, he struggles to hit the broad side of a barn. Green could take a step forward in his second season with the Razorbacks, but it would have to be a massive one for me to take him seriously as a legitimate prospect entering his Redshirt Senior season.
16. Sawyer Robertson, Baylor
There has been a lot of love for Sawyer Robertson out of Baylor through the early parts of Summer Scouting, and I just do not get it.
Not only is he one of the least accurate quarterbacks that I’ve charted this summer, but his arm is also just… mediocre. For a dude with the frame of Robertson’s, you would expect a ton more velocity to fire out of the football. That is not the case, however.
His arm talent very much falls in the same tier of big quarterbacks with middling arms like Mason Rudolph and Will Howard.
His numbers will be huge because he throws the football a ton, but the efficiency with which he plays is not great. While Robertson has the lower half tools to make plays out of structure and to use his legs as a weapon when he doesn’t get the looks he likes post-snap, he is too dependent on them.
Robertson opts to run over getting his eyes backside far too often, and when he is working his eyes, he tends to be uncreative, robotic, and overly structured. There is not a ton of free-flowing gunslinger-mentality answers to his process.
The Mississippi State to Baylor transfer quarterback is a fun college quarterback who helped the Bears win games a year ago. As for his NFL outlook? He’s got quite a bit to figure out still.