Most importantly, “strongest arm” and “best arm” are not the same. When it came to the actual judging, several different criteria were taken into account.
Maybe everyone young enough to understand the internet only knows Elway as a guy who owned a few car dealerships and some steakhouses before taking his current job as a tall quarterback collector. There’s a video of every Jay Cutler touchdown from 2006-2014, but we can’t get a supercut of amazing Elway throws? Get it together, Broncos fans.
There is a shocking lack of Elway material on YouTube. And finally, the absence of quality video from before 1995 is glaring. belong to a different generation of QBs than that crew. Second, it limits the scope and rules out late-career Dan Marino, John Elway, and any other guys who might have played a significant chunk of their career in the 1980s. The first Super Bowl that I can remember was 49ers-Chargers in early 1995, and the first time I saw Favre play live was on a miserable Halloween night at Soldier Field a few months earlier. First, it puts me in a better position to make an informed conclusion. For this exercise, I only included players who were drafted in 1990 or later. So when our editors at The Athletic said we were celebrating ‘90s week, I thought it’d be the perfect chance to answer this question once and for all: Who really has the best NFL arm of the past 30 years?īefore digging into the analysis, I want to establish a few basic ground rules. Every time anyone posts a clip of Patrick Mahomes making an impossible throw, there’s an inevitable handful of responses that Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre have been doing similar stuff for decades. I’m more concerned with who’s the best in one particular area. My favorite, though, has nothing to do with who’s the best - either in NFL history or in the game today. In the football world, many of the loudest and longest-running points of contention - understandably - concern QBs.
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