The Cardinals will face 14 different starting quarterbacks in 2025. See where they rank.
As we have reached the point of the offseason where content is mostly reduced to lists and rankings, we have some quarterback rankings/tiers from CBS Sports’ Cody Benjamin. We have looked at Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray and the tiers where he and fellow NFC West quarterbacks fall, but now we want to look at the Cardinals’ opponents.
These are the tiers:
- Tier 1: Transcendent talents
- Tier 2: Borderline stars
- Tier 3: Promising prospects
- Tier 4: Volatile veterans
- Tier 5: Prized projects
- Tier 6: Holdovers and placeholders
The Cardinals face a healthy dose of the lowest tiers. Let’s have a look.
Tier 6 opponent QBs for Cardinals
Seven quarterbacks total are in this tier. The Cardinals face four of them.
Tier 5: Prized projects
Ward is the one rookie quarterback with real promise. The Cardinals will face him early in the season.
Tier 4: Volatile veterans
Kyler Murray falls into this tier, too.
Tier 2: Borderline stars
The Cardinals will not face any of the four rising stars in Bo Nix, Drake Maye, J.J. McCarthy and Caleb Williams, so we move to the very good group.
- C.J. Stroud, Houston Texans (Week 15)
- Baker Mayfield, Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Week 13)
- Dak Prescott, Dallas Cowboys (Week 9)
- Jordan Love, Green Bay Packers (Week 7)
- Brock Purdy, San Francisco 49ers (Weeks 3, 11)
- Matthew Stafford, LA Rams (Weeks 14, 18)
Tier 1: Transcendent talents
Six quarterbacks make this list. The Cardinals only have to face one:
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