This offseason has seen plenty of praise for Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow, though the most notable of all might’ve just dropped.
ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler polled anonymous league executives, coaches and scouts to rank the top 10 quarterbacks in the league.
IBurrow slots second overall behind only Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs. As one AFC coach put it, Burrow is the second-best quarterback in the league and “it’s not close” after that.
One scout told Fowler what Bengals fans figured out pretty quickly — Burrow didn’t arrive as a stunning athlete or anything, but his steady command of the game has been reminiscent of past greats.
“He takes time to appreciate because the elite athlete isn’t what you see first,” the scout told Fowler. “But the more you watch him, the more you’re like, Damn, he’s doing the right thing every play. It’s a lot like [Drew] Brees and [Tom] Brady where they start doing things so consistently every year and you’re thinking, Well, maybe he really is that guy.”
A Tom Brady and Drew Brees name-drop while being named the league’s No. 2 quarterback? Not bad for Burrow, who seems to finally have the attention of everyone, as he deserves.
