Joel Klatt’s top 5 quarterbacks in 2024 NFL Draft

Joel Klatt

College Football Analyst

Draft season is here! As we prepare for the three-day event that will be held in Detroit in late April, I’ll be dropping some positional rankings before unveiling my top 50 prospects in the 2024 NFL Draft. 

Let’s start with the quarterbacks. 

First and foremost, this is a great quarterback draft. This draft is deep with quarterback talent and this is as good a quarterback draft class as we’ve had in a long time, at least on paper. It could rival the 1983 NFL Draft as one of the best quarterback draft classes of all time. 

[Rob Rang ranks the 10 best QBs in the 2024 draft]

There is a mixture of the traditional talented three-years-and-done player. You’ve also got some guys who have played a ton of football, transferred around, had a COVID year, and are very experienced, older players. So, you’ve got this perfect storm of events that has happened in the last few years that have kept talented players in college football. 

It’s also one of the reasons why I love this class. We don’t need to do as much projecting, as the top quarterbacks have each started at least 25 games in college. If you look at the quarterbacks who’ve won the Super Bowl since Tom Brady won his first title, most of them started more than 30 games and had more than 1,000 passing attempts in college. 

That quarterback talent was reflected in my first mock draft, which was released last week. I had six quarterbacks going in the first round. Sure, that might be a lot, but those six players deserve to be selected in the first round, and it wouldn’t be a reach to select them that high. At the very least, those six quarterbacks are likely ranked somewhere between the top 35-40 prospects in this year’s draft. 

Caleb Williams, Brock Bowers & Marvin Harrison Jr. in Joel Klatt’s mock draft 1.0

Let me also preface my rankings with this: Just because I ranked one player lower than another doesn’t mean I hate…