NFL QB Index Dak Prescott earns highest ranking of 2023 Josh Allen tumbles out of top 10

Stats-scanners will claim fraudulence when seeing Hurts standing atop these rankings, but I’m not writing this solely off numbers. If you watch the tape, you’ll see a quarterback doing some seriously special things behind the wheel of the Eagles offense. Hurts hasn’t quite reached his MVP-contending form of last season, but he’s not far off that mark right now. The Eagles are the NFC leaders because of Hurts (and his favorite target, A.J. Brown), not in spite of him, and I look forward to him justifying this notion in the weeks ahead. You’ll see.

It’s weird to finish a week of games and realize I didn’t see Mahomes play football. It’s also been a bit of a strange season for Kansas City -- not because it’s not winning, but because it has encountered some surprising variance in style of play and production. In some weeks, Mahomes is a stat-stuffing machine, but in others, he’s just been OK. It’s fine, because the Chiefs are 7-2, but it’s not a runaway MVP season for Mahomes, making for an interesting backstretch to the 2023 season.

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