How Old Is Every NFL QB?

Note: An updated version of this list can be found here.

How old is Tom Brady? Aaron Rodgers? Kenny Pickett? Here’s the list of every current starter, inactive starter, and recent starter (all ages come from Pro Football Reference, list is current as of October 4^th, 2022):

• Tom Brady is 45 years old.
• Aaron Rodgers is 39 years old.
• Matt Ryan is 37 years old.
• Joe Flacco is 37 years old.
• Brian Hoyer is 37 years old.
• Andy Dalton is 35 years old.
• Matthew Stafford is 34 years old.
• Russell Wilson is 34 years old.
• Kirk Cousins is 34 years old.
• Ryan Tannehill is 34 years old.
• Geno Smith is 32 years old.
• Derek Carr is 31 years old.
• Jimmy Garoppolo is 31 years old.
• Carson Wentz is 30 years old.
• Jacoby Brissett is 30 years old.
• Teddy Bridgewater is 30 years old.
• Dak Prescott is 29 years old.
• Marcus Mariota is 29 years old.
• Cooper Rush is 29 years old.
• Jared Goff is 28 years old.
• Jameis Winston is 28 years old.
• Mitchell Trubisky is 28 years old.
• Patrick Mahomes is 27 years old.
• Baker Mayfield is 27 years old.
• Deshaun Watson is 27 years old.
• Davis Webb is 27 years old.
• Josh Allen is 26 years old.
• Joe Burrow is 26 years old.
• Lamar Jackson is 25 years old.
• Kyler Murray is 25 years old.
• Daniel Jones is 25 years old.
• Justin Herbert is 24 years old.
• Jalen Hurts is 24 years old.
• Tua Tagovailoa is 24 years old.
• Kenny Pickett is 24 years old.
• Davis Mills is 24 years old.
• Mac Jones is 24 years old.
• Trevor Lawrence is 23 years old.
• Justin Fields is 23 years old.
• Zach Wilson is 23 years old.
• Bailey Zappe is 23 years old.
• Trey Lance is 22 years old.

Some observations on these:

The mean age is 29, the median age is 28. This means Baker Mayfield is on the young side, Jimmy Garoppolo is on the old side, and Marcus Mariota is about average in age.

Trey Lance being younger than everybody is easy to forget. The guy’s two years younger than Kenny Pickett.

Tom Brady is so much older than everyone else. The gap between him and Aaron Rodgers is the same as the one from Matthew Stafford to Mitch Trubisky.

There are more 24 year-old quarterbacks of note than any other age, and all six of them are first-stringers by design, not necessity.

Joe Burrow is older than Lamar Jackson despite Jackson entering the league two years earlier. I don’t know how this (or the same thing with Lance and Pickett) affects how finished or unfinished a product each is, but it can’t be meaningless.