Justin Herbert saw his ranking increase by 19 spots in this year’s NFL Top 100.
After coming in at No. 75 in last year’s Top 100, Justin Herbert’s incredibly-efficient 2024 regular season got him a boost in this year’s rankings as the Chargers quarterback was voted the 56th-best player in the NFL entering the 2025 season by his peers.
Herbert is now the third Chargers player to debut on the 2025 NFL Top 100, joining wide receiver Ladd McConkey (No. 100) and edge rusher Khalil Mack (No. 78).
not where we had him, but ok pic.twitter.com/s9XpeTX6tz
— Los Angeles Chargers (@chargers) July 30, 2025
Here’s what NFL.com’s Coral Smith had to say about Herbert and his ranking:
“Under the first year of head coach Jim Harbaugh’s leadership, Herbert thrived, putting an injury-stunted 2023 season behind him to finish with what could be considered his most efficient season to date and elevating him in this year’s Top 100 ranking. Herbert was notably good at taking care of the ball in 2024, recording just three interceptions through his 17 regular-season games for a 0.6 INT percentage to lead the league. That made him just the third player in NFL history to finish a season with 400-plus passing attempts and three or fewer interceptions, joining a pair of future Hall of Famers, Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers, per NFL Pro. The Chargers are still in search of playoff success coming into 2025, but their issues were not due to the man under center last season.”
In year one playing in Greg Roman’s run-first offense, Herbert had a slow start through the first few weeks of the season but began to hit his stride as the weeks rolled on. That, plus the run game’s consistent decline meant that Herbert was forced to start carrying the team once again during the more difficult parts of the season.
Still, with that growing pressure on his shoulders, Herbert refused to turn over the football. And after the slow start he had to fight through, he still managed to come close to 4,000 passing yards on the season. Now in 2025, Herbert has several new playmakers in running back Omarion Hampton to go with receivers Tre’ Harris and KeAndre Lambert-Smith, both of which have been standing out thus far in training camp.
It is unsure how much more production we can expect in year two of Roman’s offense, but I think the Chargers got the picture from last season that you can’t truly reduce Herbert’s fingerprint on games solely for the sake of establishing the run. Past regimes have forced the run a bit too much on a weekly basis and it truly set the team back for no good reason. Herbert is the keys that drive the whole offense and the coaching staff would be right to make sure the run game is still important, but not more important than their golden boy under center.