AFC QB supporting cast rankings
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🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
The NFL is a quarterback driven league, there's no doubt about it. But do the Eagles win the Super Bowl last year without their offensive line? Do the Chiefs establish a dynasty without Andy Reid? Are the Rams and Bengals playing in Super Bowl LVI without Cooper Kupp, Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins? The supporting casts around quarterbacks matter, too. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen rank the supporting casts in the AFC on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
4:24 Jets
8:16 Patriots
12:20 Browns
16:10 Titans
19:37 Texans
26:35 Chargers
31:50 Steelers
35:46 Jaguars
40:20 Dolphins
45:57 Raiders
51:14 Colts
56:15 Chiefs
1:01:56 Bills
1:06:04 Broncos
1:07:00 Bengals
1:10:00 Back to the Broncos!
1:13:31 Ravens
Hosts: Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:35.2 | Welcome to the athletic football show. I'm Robert Mays. Really fun show for you guys today. |
| 0:40.0 | We did something last year. It's a deep off-season topic, but one that I had a lot of fun doing. |
| 0:44.9 | Just ranking the supporting casts among every team in the NFL. And what we did last year is we split it into the |
| 0:50.7 | AFC and the NFC. And that's exactly what we're going to do this year. Today is the AFC. |
| 0:55.4 | And just explaining the details of the exercise because I think that supporting cast can mean different things to different people. |
| 1:01.9 | There are really three different buckets that Derek and I were pulling from in order to do this. |
| 1:06.5 | The first was the play caller and the over the offensive infrastructure and ecosystem. |
| 1:11.1 | It's a little bit harder to weight that than it is some of these other things just because |
| 1:15.2 | you don't really have talent on paper. |
| 1:17.3 | But I do think it's a huge, it plays a huge role, undeniably, in which quarterbacks get |
| 1:22.6 | support and which don't. |
| 1:24.1 | So just the play caller and the ecosystem and infrastructure was one part of it. |
| 1:27.6 | Pass catching talent. Very simple to understand. Right. So how good are your past catchers? |
| 1:32.0 | How deep is the past catching group? How much star power does the past catching group have? |
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