Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson is unanimously viewed as one of the best players in football, and that feeling only grew after the season he had in 2024.

Jackson threw for 4,172 yards, 41 touchdowns and four interceptions while completing 66.7 percent of his passes and posting a 119.6 passer rating last season, also rushing for 915 yards and four scores on 6.6 yards per carry.

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On top of that, he finally put forth an impressive playoff showing, although the Ravens’ run was extinguished by the Buffalo Bills in the Divisional Round.

Jackson finished second to Bills star Josh Allen in MVP voting for his efforts, and many would say that Jackson actually should have won the award for a third time.

You would then think that the vast majority of personnel people would have Jackson at or near the very top of the list of quarterbacks they would choose to start a franchise, but he surprisingly isn’t getting that type of recognition.

In a poll conducted by The Athletic, NFL executives picked Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow and Jayden Daniels all ahead of Jackson in the franchise quarterback category, and it wasn’t close, either.

Allen received 22 votes while Mahomes and Burrow gathered 19. Then there was Daniels, who actually collected 13 votes to Jackson’s seven.

The top three are at least understandable, particularly in the case of Mahomes and Burrow who are probably the two best pure passers in the league. But Daniels nearly doubling Jackson in votes is very surprising.

Perhaps it’s because Daniels is four years younger than Jackson, and let’s face it: he did enjoy a tremendous rookie campaign with the Washington Commanders. But to place Daniels so far ahead of Jackson so soon is jarring.

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Not only that, but Allen being light years ahead of Jackson in the voting is also questionable. Allen has probably had the slightly more successful career to date, but it really should be more of a toss-up between the two signal-callers.

This will just represent yet another chip on Jackson’s shoulder heading into the 2025 NFL season.

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