Age of QB's in the playoffs

[dikowt dowg]

Baker Mayfield will be the elder statesman when his Cleveland Browns take on Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC’s divisional round this Sunday. Mayfield and Mahomes are both just 25 years old, but Mayfield’s birthday is a few months before Mahomes’.

In fact, Mayfield is the oldest of the four starting quarterbacks still playing in the AFC postseason. He’s nearly two years older than Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson, the youngest signal-caller left in either conference.

The birthdates of the four remaining QBs in the AFC postseason:

• Mayfield: April 14, 1995
• Mahomes: September 17, 1995
• Josh Allen: May 21, 1996
• Lamar Jackson: January 7, 1997

In the NFC...

Tom Brady is 43
Drew Brees is 41
Aaron Rodgers is 37
Jared Goff of the Rams is the baby of the group at 26.

 

[Shanemansj13]

Cowherd brought up an interesting point and I noticed this also looking at all the AFC QB's. The AFC is going to be much harder path, future wise, to the SB than the NFC and I think the Packers could benefit.

AFC QB's
Mahomes 25
Watson 25
Mayfield 25
Allen 24
Burrow 24
Lamar 23
Herbert 22
Trevor Lawrence 21 (2021 Draft

NFC QB's
Brady 43 (will retire soon)
Brees 41 (could retire this season)
Rodgers 37
Alex Smith 36
Ryan 35
Wilson 32
Murray 23

Aaron Rodgers could play 4-5 more years and the only elite QB is Wilson and he doesn't have an OL and they are in the cap danger zone. Then you have Kyler, up-and-coming....that's it.

People always talk about how the Chiefs could be the Patriots for the next 10-12 years but look at all those young, talented QB's in the AFC.
But look at GB's division, just a bunch of average QB's that probably won't last long. THIS is what the Patriots were dealing with all those years with a very weak AFC East and average QB's.
Lions - Stafford
Vikings - Cousins
Bears - Tribusky

I think clearly the much easier path is GB with Rodgers for 4-5 years with a league full of overpaid, over the hill or just ok borderline franchise QB's or those teams are a mess. It's definitely interesting to see the clear the difference in talent from a QB perspective AFC to NFC.