Usually any sort of playoff QB ranking has Tom Brady at the top of the list. But there’s an exception to every rule. Consider this one the exception. NFL.com’s Gregg Rosenthal has an interesting article out that ranks each of the remaining playoff QBs but their “trustworthiness,” And it’s Ben Roethlisberger, not Brady, capturing the top spot.
Rosenthal writes:
“The deep attempts he was just missing early in the season are now on point. His touch passes are sublime and he’s done an excellent job getting his secondary receivers — like tight end Vance McDonald — involved.”
He concludes by saying Big Ben has “best mix of electric current play and playoff experience of any quarterback left.”
Brady comes in at #2 with Rosenthal concerned by how poorly he has performed over the last month as speculation ramps up about all the injuries he’s dealing with.
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Big Ben has the most difficult matchup this week, but no quarterback played better over the second half of the season. His meltdown against the Jaguars back in Week 5, which contained its share of bad luck, was his last negatively graded game for my weekly QB Index exercise. The deep attempts he was just missing early in the season are now on point. His touch passes are sublime and he's done an excellent job getting his secondary receivers -- like tight end Vance McDonald -- involved.
The conventional wisdom about Roethlisberger as a young player was that he would age poorly when he could no longer swat away defenders like a dad who's a little too serious about besting his kids in driveway basketball. His movement skills have eroded, yet I see a 35-year-old quarterback at the height of his powers. Roethlisberger has the best mix of electric current play and playoff experience of any quarterback left
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