Waves of elite high school talent have washed up on college football’s shores since the turn of the millennium, including schools of blue-chip quarterbacks. Using All-Time Football Players recruiting rankings, we assembled and sorted the 20 highest-rated quarterback prospects in the modern recruiting era (since 2000). The list features five current players, including Texas’ Arch Manning and Tennessee’s Nico Iamaleava. LSU commit Bryce Underwood is the only player on this list still in high school (2025).
Longhorns starting quarterback Quinn Ewers joins Manning on this list. The duo were both the top-rated overall prospects in their respective classes and are the only top-20 quarterback prospects of all time to play on the same team. Oregon’s Dante Moore and Florida State’s DJ Uiagalelei also made this list, speaking to the amount of passing talent that’s suiting up for the 2024 season.
Manning, Iamaleava and Moore all hail from the class of 2023. It’s the only class to put three players on this list and is likely to go down as one of the greatest of all time. The class of 2018 has a case with two of the top-rated of all-time: Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields.
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Here are the 20 highest-rated quarterback recruits of the modern recruiting era, ranked: