NBC Sports analyst Chris Simms thinks Burrow is the second-best quarterback coming into the season, behind Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes. He joined Andrew Luck as the only players with at least 75 touchdown passes (82) and 10 rushing scores in their first three seasons. With Burrow agreeing to an NFL-record five-year, $275 million extension Thursday, three of the four top-paid quarterbacks are from the 2020 class, with Burrow, Herbert and Hurts all averaging at least $51 million per season.īurrow, the top pick in 2020, was tied for second in the league with 35 TD passes last season. The one area where the current group has its predecessors beat is money. The 1983 group went 100-55 (including the playoffs) as starters in its first three seasons while the 2020 QBs are 100-71-1 going into Sunday’s openers. It already has equaled the 1983ers by having two quarterbacks reach the Super Bowl within their first three years in the league (Marino and Tony Eason).
It is the only one with three Hall of Famers - John Elway, Dan Marino and Jim Kelly - and it has a combined 11 Super Bowl appearances. With its depth, though, the 2020 group could make a run at the greatest of all time, the Class of 1983. All three have Hall of Fame-worthy resumes, and Manning and Roethlisberger own a pair of Super Bowl rings.
We haven’t seen a class this talented in a long time,” said Amazon Prime Video analyst Ryan Fitzpatrick, who played 17 years in the league.Īt least not since 2004, when the trio of Eli Manning, Ben Roethlisberger and Philip Rivers took the league by storm.
“You’ve got a class where three of the six are the face of the NFL. With Jordan Love taking over in Green Bay, Sunday will mark the first time since 2012 that the top five selected quarterbacks in a draft class will start in a season opener.
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