The 5 Most Clutch Playoff Quarterbacks of All Time According to FiveThirtyEight

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The fine people over at FiveThirtyEight have come up with a way to examine just how clutch a player can be in the playoffs, when the clutch is really present. How did they do it? Essentially, they took each of the nominal starters since the NFL really became the NFL in 1970, then measured the QB’s performance against a replacement level signal caller’s expected performance. “Replacement level,” in this case, essentially meaning an average NFL quarterback for that particular season. The results are a mixture of the expected and the totally befuddling, but we’ll get to that momentarily.

5. John Elway
4. Joe Flacco
3. Kurt Warner
2. Joe Montana

1. Eli Manning

“[Manning’s] New York Giants have often been underdogs in the postseason and projected to a record of 4-7 or perhaps 5-6 in his 11 games. Instead, Eli Manning’s teams have gone 8-3.”

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