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2012 is clearly better. Outside of Stroud, everyone else is a giant question mark still.

Yeah, gonna be honest that this sounds like a very lackluster start between Bryce Young’s rough situation and Anthony Richardson having a worrisome injury history already. Levis may stack up some more good games, but no one else mentioned is too noteworthy.

Stroud doing a lot of the heavy lifting here.

2012 still takes the cake. Three rookie QBs made the pro-bowl and led their teams to playoff berths.

I'd argue it isn't even the best half season in the last 5 years. The start that Burrow and Herbert had were great.

The disrespect to the Jaren THE Hall monitor is too much. 80% completion rating, 10 yards a pass, no ints, no sacks, no fumbles.

i forget the year, but tannehill's class had a really good start. (tannehill, luck, russel wilson, and pretty sure there was a 4th big name qb i'm forgetting, but i might just be thinking mariotta who was a bust)

It’s hard to call this class doing great to me when Richardson and Levi’s have both played like 2 games. I thought both have looked good no doubt but makes it hard to put it up against other classes when they have so little game tape so far. Stroud is off to what could possibly end up being the best QB season of all time and Bryce is not looking good.

The 2020 class started off really well for the most part. Burrow and Herbert came in looking good and while hurts wasn’t consistent and only played 4 games in a starter he looked really good in 2 of them, decent in 1 and bad in his last game.

I wait to reserve judgment on any QB until the rest of the league has played him with the benefit of a full season of film on him. It's awesome that Stroud and Levis look so good, but there is likely to be some kind of regression once the league figures their weaknesses out more so we will see how they respond. It is exciting though

I'm madly in love with CJ Stroud, but this is just wrong. The 2012 rookie class was clearly better. Even if you would rank Stroud ahead of Luck, Wilson and RG3 as rookies, none of the other rookies this year are remotely on the same level as those three.

Wilson/RG3/Luck/Tannehill in 2012 is by far the best of recent decades as far as rookies QB performance goes

I'm pretty sure this is a famously mid group of QBs you just detailed.

2020 had a pretty great start

Burrow had 2688 yards 15 TDs and 5 INTs in 10 games

Herbert had 4336 yards 31 TDs and 10 INTs in 15 games

Tua had 1814 yards 11 TDs and 5 INTs in 10 games

Hurts took over the starting job and in 5 games had a respectable 1061 yards, 6 TDs and 4 INTs with 3 more TDs on the ground.

This sub has short memories lol.

Literally only Stroud has been good though...

Bryce Young has been terrible

Anthony Richardson instantly got injured

Will Levis did have a really good game and has made some impressive throws. Definitely promising.

Nobody else of has done anything of note

I was clowning Levi’s because he had no business being a number 1 pick, those mock drafts were off their rocker. He was projected top 5, gave us nothing in his last season at UK, and then they moved him up to 1-2?

He got drafted at a much better spot. Less pressure, not having to start immediately. I’m glad he was put somewhere he was able to come in and thrive, and I hope he continues to

Definitely best class since Covid

Well yeah RG3 won the NFC East as a rookie while Andrew Luck and Russell Wilson balled out.

Class of 1983

2020 had Jordan Love... plus Burrow, Herbert, Hurts, and Tua. Those are 5 elite QBs

Disagree with the entire premise. One played 4 games (and his stats aren’t great…sub 60 completion percentage and sub 150 yards per game), the other has played in 2. There have been many, many seasons where a lot of rookies have looked good in 2-3 game stretches. Stroud is the only one who has actually looked good.

Hey, I’ve seen this one before!

Stroud=Herbert (gunslinger out of the gate)

Young=tua (no help at all, some struggles but some flashes too)

Richardson=burrow (really good start to the season but got hurt early and will h fortunately be out for the year)

Levis=hurts (drafter a bit later so sometimes gets forgotten but is still playing really well)

The rest=love (no one know what to think)

The script is repeating itself

Stroud throws 5 TD's in a week 9, when he'd had 9 the first 7 games, and this sub is inundated with "is stroud the best rookie QB ever, should he be in the MVP talks on a 4-4 team?", but this is possibly the dumbest one yet.

AR played 2 games and is out, Young is struggling, Will Levis has played 2 games.

Stroud is having a great OROY season, could we please just stop with all this other nonsense.

Stroud is the only one who has looked good, so yes, this would be one of the worst ever if not for Stroud.

Bryce young hasn’t looked good at all, Levis hasn’t shown anything either? He had one great game.

So no this isn’t the best QB class through one season ever, not even close.

Basically stroud and Richardson have looked good

It's pretty much just Stroud lighting things up. Only other rookie who's gotten extensive playtime is Young and the Panthers are pure dogshit so he's not going to show much.

2012 you had Luck, RG3, and Wilson all have strong seasons and make the playoffs.

Matt Ryan and Joe Flacco were also good the same year as rookies and made the playoffs IIRC.

It's very possible if not likely none of them are even going to make the playoffs. Let's calm down a bit here.

Better question, was the 2021 QB class one of the worst ever?

It is not a good start. Stroud is great, Levis had one good game, Young is a bust, the rest are non factors. Typical.

mrw reading this thread https://imgur.com/hxcKK7q

AOC definitely has some room for improvement but he can actually get the ball down the field, just has slight accuracy problems

The 1983 QB draft class included John Elway, Jim Kelly and Dan Marino bd three others, and even that group didn’t have as great a year one as the current folks.

Is this a serious question? Not only is it not the best ever, I’m not even sure it is an above average class at this point. Stroud is carrying this class on his back.

This is one of those submissions that makes me think I'm too smart to be spending my time on Reddit.

I feel like the 2021 draft class was just so bad that it makes Young,Richardson, and Levis look elite in comparison