Every year, The Athletic’s Mike Sando polls NFL officials around the league to break the league’s quarterbacks into rankings and tiers. This year he polled 50 league officials including eight general managers, 10 head coaches, 15 coordinators, 10 executives, and others. And the NFL is still high on Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson despite a down six-game sample size in 2022.
Of all of the quarterbacks in the NFL, Watson was thrown into the second tier of gunslingers, ranked as the 11th-best.
Here are some quotes from NFL officials about Watson as the Browns prepare to make a run in 2023.