NFL executives rank former LSU football QB Joe Burrow in the same tier as Patrick Mahomes

Former LSU football quarterbacks Joe Burrow and Jayden Daniels earned high praise from a survey of 50 NFL coaches and executives.

In the 2025 preseason quarterback tiers released by The Athletic, Burrow and Daniels landed in tiers one and two, respectively. Burrow was a unanimous tier one choice for the first time, while Daniels set a record for the ranking series with the highest debut by a second-year quarterback.

Burrow and Patrick Mahomes were both unanimous selections to the top tier. Heading into his sixth NFL season with the Cincinnati Bengals, Burrow led the league in attempts, completions, yards, and touchdowns last year.

One head coach told The Athletics that Burrow is "the closest thing to Joe Montana that I have seen.

A defensive coordinator said of Daniels, "What I respect most is it never seems too big for him."

Daniels earned 17 tier one votes in 2025, which breaks a record for second-year players set by C.J. Stroud last year. He took the Washington Commanders to the NFC Championship as a rookie and won the league's rookie of the year honor.

Burrow and Daniels both had illustrious careers at LSU, each winning the Heisman Trophy. Burrow led LSU on a 15-0 national championship season in 2019, cementing his legacy as one of the greatest college quarterbacks of all time.

This article originally appeared on LSU Wire: Former LSU QB Burrow ranked in same tier as Mahomes by NFL executives