{"id":965006,"date":"2026-08-05T15:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/965006\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T15:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:33:15","slug":"the-athletics-2026-nfl-qb-tiers-seahawks-sam-darnold-continues-remarkable-ascent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/965006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Athletic\u2019s 2026 NFL QB Tiers: Seahawks\u2019 Sam Darnold continues remarkable ascent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Darnold\u2019s climb over the past three seasons is rare for an established starter in the 13-year history of QB Tiers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cSam played his ass off the last two years,\u201d a head coach said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Darnold\u2019s improvement from 4.00 to 2.36 is a full tier better than runner-up Daniel Jones among the 19 quarterbacks who appeared in all three surveys and had debuted before 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cThere are so many factors that determine a quarterback\u2019s success, and Darnold\u2019s the best example of it,\u201d an exec said. \u201cTo get him into the right system, with the right coaches, and you have a game-breaking receiver, and a good defense. It\u2019s a lot easier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cSam is at his best when you run the ball, play defense and then he\u2019s not in position to turn the ball over,\u201d an exec said, \u201cbut when his number is called, he can make big plays. If they don\u2019t start running the football, they probably don\u2019t win the Super Bowl.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darnold\u2019s climb over the past three seasons is rare for an established starter in the 13-year history of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":965007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,6,238,237,261,52201,84696,2635],"class_list":["post-965006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-seahawks","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-seahawks","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-seattle-seahawks-analysis-and-opinion","tag-seattle-seahawks-discussion","tag-seattleseahawks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117043632796602474","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}