With the schedule for the 2017 being official, and training camp seems like it is right around the corner, it is time to take a peek into the 2017 NFL season. One of the more important positions in the National Football League is the quarterback position
15 WILL – ELI MANNING The New York Giants are poised to have a successful regular season like they did in 2016, but they are looking to do better than they did in the playoffs.
Eli has one of the best wide receiver duos in recent memory in Odell Beckham Jr., and the newly signed Brandon Marshall. Having those two bid deep threats on the same field means that there is no reason why Eli should not throw over 30 touchdown passes in 2017.
14 WON’T – ALEX SMITH Alex Smith is a quality quarterback, but when it comes to touchdown passes he has never thrown for more than 23 touchdowns in a single season.
Smith is a game manager, and it has shown in the past in the regular season. With that being said it is not that Smith has not had talented receivers around him cause he has.
He focuses on working the running game at all times, and passes when he sees the opportunity to strike against the defense.
13 WILL – PHILLIP RIVERS The Los Angeles Chargers have a quarterback who the offense runs completely through him. With Melvin Gordon having a break out season last season, it opened the play action up for the Chargers and it helps Rivers with his stats.
Phillip Rivers has thrown for 30 plus touchdowns five times in his 13th season in the NFL. With the Chargers looking to improve their offensive game from a season ago it sure looks like Rivers will throw 30 plus touchdowns with the receiving core that he has.
12 WON’T – DAK PRESCOTT Dak Prescott took the league by storm a year ago, when he led the Dallas Cowboys to the playoffs with a 13-3 record and received the number one seed in the NFC.
The thing though, is the Cowboys were a run heavy team and Prescott did not throw the ball that much.
Prescott was not needed to throw for over 30 touchdown passes due to their effective running game, and that led him to not have to throw the ball more than he needed to.
11 WILL – JAMEIS WINSTON Winston has been a spark plug for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and has helped turn the franchise around in the right direction in only two seasons.
Going into his third season Tampa Bay has had some serious talent for the receiving core to be even better than it was a season ago. Winston had 28 passing touchdowns a season ago, and it looks like he will only improve his numbers with this receiving core that he has for this upcoming season.
10 WON’T – BRIAN HOYER Brian Hoyer is poised to be the starting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers to start off the 2017 season, but he is definitely not a quarterback who could throw for 30 touchdowns next season.
Hoyer has yet to spend a full season in the NFL as a starting quarterback, and has not thrown for more than 19 touchdowns in a single season.
9 WILL – DEREK CARR Derek Carr is coming off of what could have potentially been an MVP caliber season in 2016, but an injury doomed Derek Carr and the Oakland Raiders for the rest of the 2016 season.
When Carr went down so did Oakland’s chance of winning a Super Bowl title, now in 2017 Carr is out to prove that last season was not a fluke. Carr and the Oakland Raiders have an all-around great offense, which next season will include “Beast Mode” himself Marshawn Lynch.
With Lynch as your running back it opens up the play action passing game which Derek Carr thrives in.
8 WON’T – JARED GOFF Jared Goff was taken with the number one overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft, and had a very rocky rookie season. Goff’s potential is higher than he showed a season ago, but with the talent that he has at wide receiver it is tough for him to be able to throw more than 30 touchdowns in the 2017 season.
There is no legit number one receiver that is on the Los Angeles Rams’ roster and that is a huge part of the reason why Goff struggled in 2016.
7 WILL – MARCUS MARIOTA Marcus Mariota is a former Heisman Trophy winner and has performed pretty well so far in his two seasons in the NFL. He has helped change the culture of the Tennessee Titans.
They are poised to have a great 2017 season and Mariota is a huge reason why. The Titans receiving core does not stick out at you in any shape or form, but with Mariota being the quarterback it makes the receivers around him better.
6 WON’T – TYROD TAYLOR Tyrod Taylor is a mobile quarterback who likes to use his legs at times rather than his arm. Especially with Buffalo’s running game being the best in the league from a season ago, but it is because that Taylor and McCoy are a great quarterback/running back rushing duo.
Taylor has started 2 seasons in Buffalo and has not thrown more than 20 touchdowns in a single season. He is one of the mobile quarterbacks that are currently in the game today, but he has not shown that he can be an effective quarterback in the league today.
5 WILL – TOM BRADY Tom Brady has thrown for 30 plus touchdowns six times in his illustrious career, and is poised to do it again in 2017.
Brady is coming off one of the best seasons of his career in 2016, and with the acquisitions that New England got he looks like he can top that in 2017.
The targets that the Patriots have for Brady looking like he could be in the MVP talk in 2017, and that Brady could be a 40-year-old MVP which has never been done in NFL history.
4 WON’T – DESHAUN WATSON Deshaun Watson is entering his rookie season, and looks like that he is one rookie that has the best scenario entering the league in 2017.
He looks to be the guy that will start for the Texans in Week 1, and he has one not only one of the best receivers in the league, but he also has one of the best defenses to help him out. Watson in college was a very consistent quarterback, but in the NFL look for him to struggle at first.
3 WILL – DREW BREES Drew Brees has thrown for 30 plus touchdowns for nine straight seasons, and will look to make it ten straight seasons in 2017.
He has been one of the most consistent quarterbacks since 2008, but the teams that he has played on has struggled to help bring Brees to the playoffs since 2013.
The Saints have had one of the best offenses in the league with Brees at running the show, and 2017 should be no different.
2 WON’T – RYAN TANNEHILL Ryan Tannehill is coming off of a sprain in his ACL and MCL, and is looking to help bring the Dolphins back to the playoffs.
The Dolphins offense was not the same without Tannehill and it showed down the stretch of the regular season, and into the postseason. That being said with the emergence of Jay Ajayi, Tannehill’s chances of putting up 30 touchdowns are slimming more and more.
1 WILL – AARON RODGERS Aaron Rodgers has thrown for 30 plus touchdowns six times in his career, including three straight seasons (2014-2016).
Green Bay has been one of the most consistent teams in the 2010s and it is due to the fact that they have had some great quarterbacks play for them. Rodgers has the targets to continue to improve his numbers year after year, and always seems to find his way into the MVP discussions.
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