The list of the NFL’s playoff-bound quarterbacks includes a Tom with four Super Bowl rings and a Tom with four career games played.
In between: four more guys who have won championships, a couple of in-their-prime MVP candidates, a leading rookie and a human named Matt McGloin.
For the purposes of this exercise, we included the Packers, Lions and Redskins as alive for two available postseason berths in the NFC. Listed in descending order of playoff starts, with their records:
Tom Brady (22-9)
Ben Roethlisberger (11-6)
Aaron Rodgers (7-6)
Eli Manning (8-3)
Russell Wilson (7-3)
Alex Smith (2-3), Matt Ryan (1-4)
Matthew Stafford (0-2)
Kirk Cousins (0-1)
Matt McGloin, Dak Prescott, Tom Savage, Ryan Tannehill/Matt Moore (0-0)