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Who dethroned Josh Allen for the top spot in Nick Shook's QB Index rankings? Check out the updated pecking order, 1-32, heading into Week 6 of the 2025 NFL season.
Josh Allen is still the signal-caller to beat, but Matthew Stafford is playing inspired football in his 17th NFL season.
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NFL quarterback rankings heading into Week 6
Goff has made the Lions' season-opening loss a thing of the past. Three more touchdown passes in a Week 5 win. Goff leads the NFL in pass TDs (12). It wasn't quite on Allen as much as Mayfield's continued excellent play that knocks him down to second. Although the Patriots did hand Allen his first loss.
Which player enters the top five in Nick Shook's QB Index rankings? Who falls 12 spots? Check out the updated pecking order, 1-32, heading into Week 5 of the 2025 NFL season.
The 2025 group of non-homegrown first-round passers ranks in the top five in all those categories when comparing all other seasons since 1970. In fact, the first-round QB retreads have never had a better season in terms of completion rate (68%) and TD-to-INT ratio (3.3) than they're having right now.
Who are the best quarterbacks in the 2026 class? We ranked the top 14 who could get picked -- including a few playing against each other this week.
Heading into Week 6, NFL.com's Nick Shook stacked up the best and worst signal callers across the NFL through just five games of action, where Stroud leapt five spots from his previous week's ranking, now the 16th-best quarterback in the league.
When the season began, one wouldn't have imagined that coveted Week 6 Fantasy football picks consisted of names like Rico Dowdle, Javonte Williams, Kendrick Bourne or Ryan Flournoy. But they all had 100-plus scrimmage yards on Sunday,