Top 5 Active NFL Quarterbacks Who Make Their Receivers Great

There are certain NFL quarterbacks who have a tendency to play great. As I watched the NFL Red Zone yesterday, I realized that now, more then ever, quarterback play is a very important aspect to a football team. A team with a quarterback who can't play WITH great receivers (Ahem, Brock Osweiler) becomes increasingly annoying to watch in this day and time, but quarterbacks that can still play at an elite level no matter who is catching the ball are truly remarkable to watch. So here are the Top 5 Active NFL Quarterbacks who make their receivers great.

5. Tennessee's Marcus Mariota

Marcus is the 2nd year man out of Oregon who has been playing lights out in the NFL so far in his early days. The best thing about his accomplishments... Who is he throwing too?

He has a big TE who gets a lot of targets, and is his most reliable receiver in Delanie Walker. Kendall Wright would be considered his most talented receiver, although he has done absolutely nothing in terms of production the past several years. Rishard Matthews and Tajae Sharpe are his currently top targeted WR's. And the Titan offense is high flying.

Mariota has an uncanny accuracy, even when he is rolling, that is so refined that he's already more accurate then most of the other NFL QB's, so for him to already be on this list shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.

4. San Diego's Phillip Rivers

We can bash Phillip all we want for the Chargers ability to loose football games in unexpected ways, but without Keenan Allen he has a group of no name receivers he is racking up the stats with. His favorite targets being Antonio Gates and the rookie TE out of Arkansas, Hunter Henry. on the outside, he has Tyrell Williams and Dontrell Inman catching TD's galore.

Rivers has had a tendency to make the best out of his receivers his entire career, always putting up big numbers even after injuries. The reason he sits at 4 though is still despite all of that, the Chargers can't win games.

3. New Orleans' Drew Brees

Drew has always been the guy who was smaller then everyone playing QB (and usually his receivers too) but had the strong arm and accuracy to stay in games. Remember Lance Moore? Drew made that guy a star in the league. Moore left for the big money at Pittsburgh and didn't stay very long before drifting away into the nothingness.

It's not just Lance Moore though. Marques Colston, Jimmy Graham, Khiry Robinson. Keep on naming players that were great with Brees and since haven't played at that same level. You can do it, it's seriously possible.

Brees has a leadership skill that brings everyone around him up. He did the same thing in San Diego, and they let him go. I know they had Phillip, but why?

2. Seattle's Russell Wilson

Russell has had Doug Baldwin throughout his career. Any other receivers that will go down in NFL Lore? Jermaine Kearse? Rishard Matthews in the Super Bowl? Maybe Percy Harvin?

Russell is a lot like a slippery version of Drew Brees. He's small, but has a cannon for an arm and an accuracy that is almost unreal. Russell will go down as the one of the best by the time his career is over.

1. New England's Tom Brady

Tom Brady is the world's ultimate championship QB. With 6 Super Bowl appearances, 4 wins, and a couple NFL MVP awards, Brady is probably the leagues most successful QB ever, in it's entire history. Most of those seasons he has won, we have forgotten the names of his receivers.

Even now, on top of his A game, Brady has a group of no name receivers like Danny Amendola, Chris Hogan, Malcolm Mitchell. He has succeeded his entire career with names as popular as those.

Tom Brady has the cannon arm, maybe the strongest in the league, the accuracy and the system that no one else has. Thank God for Tom Brady.