Fans left baffled after Kyler Murray gets ranked in 6th tier of NFC QBs - “Disrespect is insane”

As the NFL season draws nearer, Arizona Cardinals fans are hoping that quarterback Kyler Murray is recovering well from his injury. He ruptured his ACL in the 2022 NFL season and had surgery done in January.

Given an eight-to-nine-month timeframe for a return from such an injury, fans will be wondering when exactly he can return to the field.

Much depends on the QBs ability to scamper, play with a collapsing pocket, run and throw. There is not really much of a Plan B for the Cardinals as it stands just now.

So, one can imagine Cardinals fans' surprise when Kyler Murray was ranked by an NFL expert as among being a sixth-tier quarterback in a classification with only seven tiers.

Fans were unsurprisingly having none of that. Considering players like Brock Purdy, who was also injured last season, ahead of Kyler Murray, despite the latter having a bigger body of work, definitely raised the ire among the fanbase.

Here are some of the best responses from NFL fans to that classification:

Kyler Murray is not the only one who seems underestimated in the graphic

Whenever one classifies quarterbacks, they know that there will be some controversy. But this particular list seemed to rile fans of all persuasions.

Considering that Jalen Hurts made it to the Super Bowl, while Joe Burrow and Josh Allen did not, it seemed surprising to not include him in the first tier. If injuries were a factor, and they seem to be in the case of Kyler Murray, then seeing Lamar Jackson in the second tier was also surprising to many.

New York Jets fans will be apoplectic to find their new messiah, Aaron Rodgers, languishing in the third tier. Given that tier also comprises of players like Daniel Jones and Justin Fields, such a conclusion is perhaps not far-fetched.

If one argues that Daniel Jones is there based on last season's performances, then Russell Wilson in the same category arguably cannot stand.

But perhaps the most galling omission still remains Kyler Murray. Putting him at the same level as untested quarterbacks like Sam Howell, Desmond Ridder and Jordan Love did not seem fair to many.

Notably, this is a player who has made two Pro Bowls and was named the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2019. None of his compatriots in the same tier have a CV remotely close to his.