How do Cleveland Browns rank in 2018 QB draft class comparison after three seasons?

Nov 10, 2019; Cleveland, OH, USA; Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield (6) shakes hands with Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen (17) after the game between the Cleveland Browns and the Buffalo Bills at FirstEnergy Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 10, 2019; Cleveland, OH, USA; Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield (6) shakes hands with Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen (17) after the game between the Cleveland Browns and the Buffalo Bills at FirstEnergy Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports /
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Dec 22, 2019; Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield (6) and Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson (8) hug after the game at FirstEnergy Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports /

Completion Percentage

"Lamar Jackson: 64% Baker Mayfield: 61.9% Josh Allen: 61.8% Mason Rudolph: 61.7% Sam Darnold: 59.8% Josh Rosen: 54.8%"

Get used to seeing Lamar Jackson’s name at the top of these lists. As the only quarterback from this class to win an MVP award so far, he dominates most of these categories.

The most surprising aspect of this list is to see how close Baker, Josh Allen, and Mason Rudolph’s career completion percentages are. Allen has seen incredible growth over the past three seasons, going from the worst in this category his rookie season to the highest of this class in 2020. Allen’s 2020 campaign was the single highest completion percentage of any season any of these quarterbacks have had.

Baker’s best season in terms of completion percentage was his rookie year at 63.8%, but he got close in 2020 to that mark. Rudolph himself has played in the least amount of games of all of these quarterbacks, seeing the majority of his action in 2019. There isn’t a big enough sample size to firmly say if he got less accurate in 2020, but his completion percentage did drop on the smaller workload.

After making a huge jump from 2018 to 2019, Lamar has plateaued in this category, regressing a little under two percent from his 2019 MVP season to 2020.