.Who's the most intelligent quarterback in the NFL?It's a concern enriched for dispute one of enthusiasts along with pundits on the sporting activities chat. However our experts desired to receive the answer right coming from the people in the greatest placement to recognize: genuine NFL quarterbacks.As portion of FOX Sports' Quarterback Confidential, which our company'll present in full on Thursday, we questioned 38 NFL QBs anonymously in the course of training school as well as the preseason. The first concern we inquired was easy: Who's the smartest quarterback of all? Some QBs can respond to based on original expertise, some relied on well-earned images, however after a few few seconds to presume, nearly all used impassioned actions. In this case, what is actually most fascinating might be who failed to appear one of the top vote-getters. (Much more on that particular later on.) The winner? The best expert quarterback in the organization today, Aaron Rodgers, that at grow older 40 will attempt again to renew the New York Jets after missing almost all of last time along with a torn Achilles tendon. He's a Super Bowl champ and a four-time game MVP, so it may certainly not be actually astonishing he succeeded the vote. Rodgers was actually called by 15 of our quarterback respondents." Our team bet him my newbie year, as well as it was actually therefore awesome," one QB pointed out. "You 'd listen to tales regarding his intelligence quotient and his technique of observing and comprehending the activity. However to find it face to face, the way he operated, simply hand indicators ... his entire function was smooth as well as tranquil, like he would certainly done it a thousand times. I mean, he has." A near 2nd along with 12 ballots was actually the Rams' Matthew Stafford, now 36 and also entering his 16th time. Stafford's smarts are actually renowned sufficient that younger quarterback still remembers his Wonderlic credit rating coming from 2009. The QB remembered Stafford scoring a 39, though in truth it was actually just a 38-- which is still impressive for any sort of non-Ryan Fitzpatrick passer." How he relocates individuals around the industry, and also his expertise of everything going on at once," one quarterback stated of Stafford." The means he can easily readjust on the fly, simply seeing him participate in online, he has a great feel for all the details of the posture," claimed another.Another quarterback, not understanding the end products of our panel, accurately assessed the top pair of, noting a fundamental variation in what creates each wonderful." It's between Matthew Stafford and also Aaron Rodgers," he revealed. "Aaron does so a lot freestyling, yet Matthew within the body is actually incredibly great." The Falcons' Kirk Cousins was a distant third along with three ballots. In total, 8 quarterbacks were actually named, featuring much more youthful players like the Packers' Jordan Passion and also the 49ers' Brock Purdy.What's perhaps most unexpected is that the Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes-- he of the 3 Super Dish succeeds as well as 3 Super Dish MVPs-- was actually called through a single quarterback." I recognize what type of outburst he runs, and the play phone calls are actually pretty long," that QB stated. "What he does is actually rather excellent." It's achievable that quarterbacks credit the Chiefs' objectionable magic even more to move instructor and also playcaller Andy Reid-- a lot more about that Tuesday. Mahomes most likely will have dominated if the inquiry were actually "Who is actually the greatest quarterback?" yet we would like to delve a little much deeper with our query. Our experts'll possess much more superlatives this week as our company introduce the results of our study. Meanwhile, listed below are the last amounts on the game's most intelligent quarterback: Aaron Rodgers 15Matthew Stafford 12Kirk Cousins 3Jordan Love 1Patrick Mahomes 1Dak Prescott 1Brock Purdy 1Russell WIlson 1( 3 QBs declined to respond to.) Greg Auman is an NFL Media Reporter for FOX Sports. He formerly invested a years dealing with the Buccaneers for the Tampa Fl Gulf Moments as well as The Athletic. You may follow him on Twitter at @gregauman. [Want excellent tales provided right to your inbox? Develop or even log in to your FOX Sports profile, observe organizations, staffs and also players to acquire an individualized e-newsletter daily.] Get much more coming from National Football Game Observe your favorites to receive information about activities, information and also more.