Being labeled as an overrated player is obviously subjective, but there has to be some solid truth to certain quarterbacks who are given this label. It's the toughest thing to do in professional sports, so these players are simply held to a higher standard that other players do not see.
Right now, there aren't truly 32 franchise quarterbacks in the NFL, and there always seems to be a shortage of competent quarterback play around the league. For the teams that do have a franchise passer, the urgency within the building needs to be ticked up several notches.
Let's dive into our latest NFL power rankings this offseason and look at the most overrated quarterbacks in the league. We've based our rankings on how these players appear to be perceived by the NFL landscape and compared it with their actual success.
Power ranking the league's most overrated QBs for the 2026 NFL Season
5. Jordan Love, Green Bay Packers
So, Jordan Love is most definitely a franchise quarterback in this league. He's been the Green Bay Packers starter for three seasons now. He's oddly won exactly nine games in each season and has, if nothing else, given the Packers a high floor to operate. However, Love has only played in 15 games in the 2024 and 2025 seasons, so he's missed four total regular season games the past two years.
And while he's efficient on paper, we just don't appear to see that next tier up being attainable at the moment. While Love does boast all of the tools and traits you'd desire in a franchise quarterback, he's simply hit a ceiling and is honestly a lot closer to average than some might like to admit.
4. Jayden Daniels, Washington Commanders
Jayden Daniels helped lead the Washington Commanders to the NFC Championship Game in his rookie season. He followed that up with an unfortunate injury-riddled campaign in 2025. That also was a slight concern coming into the league, as Daniels is most definitely a thinner quarterback and is more vulnerable in that regard.
Playing in just seven games as a starting quarterback is how entire careers get thrown off the rails, and that 2024 campaign feels like an eternity ago. Daniels is now in a position where he has to re-prove himself as a top player at the position. He's probably being pumped up a bit too much after playing less than half the year in 2025.
3. Josh Allen, Buffalo Bills
Don't just take my word for it. Josh Allen was once voted as the most overrated quarterback in the NFL heading into the 2024 NFL Season by the players themselves. Allen appeared on that list with another quarterback who is next on our list.
Listen - Allen is an exceptional talent and might end up in the Hall of Fame one day, but he's left a lot of meat on the bone. He has the most turnovers in the NFL by a quarterback since he entered the league in 2018. Yes, he's scored a lot of touchdowns, but he's also turned the ball over to the other team more than 100 times, which is a concern.
There's also the playoff heartbreaks. Allen has appeared in 15 playoff games, owns an 8-7 record, but has never been able to sniff a Super Bowl. Funnily enough, Allen has the most playoff wins by a quarterback in NFL history without also having a Super Bowl appearance.
The Allen-led Bills have appeared in the playoffs seven different years and seem to lose in a more heartbreaking fashion each year. Simply put,
2. Jalen Hurts, Philadelphia Eagles
Jalen Hurts is absolutely a player that not many can agree on. Despite all of the winning that the Philadelphia Eagles have done with Hurts as their starting quarterback, this team simply cannot find any consistent stability. The Eagles are seemingly insanely successful every other year, as they've made the Super Bowl in 2022 and 2024, but have gone one and done in the playoffs in the 2021, 2023, and 2025 seasons.
The main issue with Hurts is that he's simply a below-average passer and just does not have that element to his game. He's also been surrounded by borderline super teams during his Eagles tenure. Even with that being the case, Hurts has never thrown for 4,000 yards in a season and has thrown at least 25 touchdown passes in a season just once in his career.
This feels like a player who is along for the ride, rather than actually driving the vehicle.
1. Justin Herbert, Los Angeles Chargers
Justin Herbert is someone I have called this generation's Kirk Cousins for years now, and I am sticking by it. Herbert has been a high-floor, efficient quarterback each year of his career. He's a modest two-time Pro Bowler with a 52-43 career record.
However, Herbert is 0-3 in the playoffs with a 64.7 passer rating, and we've now seen Herbert lay an egg in three separate playoff years, which leads me to believe that this is going to be a continued trend.
And even in the regular season, things have been good, at best. Herbert has been held under 4,000 yards in each of the last three seasons, and he's not thrown more than 26 touchdown passes over the last four seasons.
His completion percentage has hovered in between 65.1-68.2 percent across his career, and he has never been a part of a team that has won more than 11 games. I truly have no idea why Herbert is look at as being this excellent, top-shelf quarterback.
Yes, he's efficient in the regular season, but that's truly about it. He'll be the type of player who will sustain this efficiency for years to come, but he's shown us nothing to believe that he'll ascend into that next tier.