Ranking all 59 NFL QBs to start a game in 2024 season: Ravens' Lamar Jackson, Eagles' Jalen Hurts among elite

Which signal-callers fared the best during this past season?

Every NFL season, dozens and dozens of quarterbacks start football games. There are only 32 official starters at a time, of course, but that's not accounting for weekly injury replacements and lineup changes. In total, in fact, the NFL saw 59 different signal-callers make at least one start during the 2024 campaign, including playoffs. That number is actually the lowest in four years, but it still speaks to the volume of players called upon under center.

So which of this past year's 59 starting quarterbacks were the best of the best? And which ones struggled mightily with the opportunities they were afforded? Here, we've ranked all 59 of them from best to worst, taking into account not only the 17-game regular season but the entirety of the playoffs, including Super Bowl LIX.

Naturally, we gave more weight to elite performances in the games that mattered most -- a conference-championship rout is worth more than a Week 4 shootout -- but tried to be as fair as possible, considering that some quarterbacks were only given a single start to make a name for themselves. Of course, quarterbacks are at least partially a product of their surroundings, so the entire exercise is behold to some subjectivity.