.Who's the smartest quarterback in the NFL?It's an inquiry ripe for debate amongst followers and also pundits on the sporting activities talk shows. However our experts desired to obtain the response straight from individuals in the greatest position to know: true NFL quarterbacks.As part of FOX Sporting activities' Quarterback Confidential, which our team'll present in full on Thursday, our company questioned 38 NFL QBs anonymously during training camp and also the preseason. The 1st question our company inquired was actually simple: That is actually the smartest quarterback of all? Some QBs could possibly respond to based upon original expertise, some relied upon well-earned reputations, however after a couple of few seconds to presume, almost all offered impassioned responses. Within this situation, what's very most exciting could be who failed to appear amongst the leading vote-getters. (A lot more on that particular eventually.) The champion? The best seasoned quarterback in the game today, Aaron Rodgers, who at age 40 is going to make an effort once again to reanimate the New york city Planes after overlooking mostly all of last season along with a torn Achilles ligament. He is actually a Super Bowl champ as well as a four-time game MVP, so it might not be unexpected he won the ballot. Rodgers was named through 15 of our quarterback respondents." Our team bet him my rookie year, as well as it was so awesome," one QB mentioned. "You 'd hear accounts regarding his IQ and also his means of finding as well as knowing the video game. However to view it face to face, the way he operated, only palm signals ... his entire procedure was smooth as well as restful, like he would certainly performed it a million times. I indicate, he has." A near second along with 12 ballots was actually the Rams' Matthew Stafford, right now 36 and also entering his 16th time. Stafford's smarts are actually renowned sufficient that a person young quarterback still remembers his Wonderlic credit rating from 2009. The QB remembered Stafford scoring a 39, however in reality it was simply a 38-- which is still excellent for any sort of non-Ryan Fitzpatrick passer." How he relocates folks around the area, as well as his know-how of everything going on at one time," one quarterback pointed out of Stafford." The technique he can easily readjust on the fly, simply watching him participate in real-time, he possesses a wonderful taste of all the complexities of the setting," stated another.Another quarterback, certainly not knowing the outcomes of our panel, correctly examined the leading pair of, keeping in mind a key difference in what makes each wonderful." It's between Matthew Stafford and Aaron Rodgers," he clarified. "Aaron accomplishes this a lot freestyling, however Matthew within the device is actually incredibly great." The Falcons' Kirk Cousins was a distant 3rd with three votes. In total, eight quarterbacks were actually named, consisting of much more youthful gamers like the Packers' Jordan Passion as well as the 49ers' Brock Purdy.What's maybe very most unexpected is actually that the Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes-- he of the three Super Dish succeeds and three Super Bowl MVPs-- was called by just one quarterback." I know what type of outburst he manages, as well as the play telephone calls are actually pretty long," that QB said. "What he does is fairly remarkable." It is actually possible that quarterbacks connect the Chiefs' offensive sorcery even more to head train as well as playcaller Andy Reid-- more on that particular Tuesday. Mahomes perhaps will have controlled if the concern were actually "That's the most ideal quarterback?" yet our experts wanted to dig a little bit of much deeper along with our question. We'll possess much more superlatives recently as we introduce the results of our questionnaire. In the meantime, here are the last amounts on the organization's smartest quarterback: Aaron Rodgers 15Matthew Stafford 12Kirk Cousins 3Jordan Passion 1Patrick Mahomes 1Dak Prescott 1Brock Purdy 1Russell WIlson 1( 3 QBs decreased to respond to.) Greg Auman is an NFL Press Reporter for FOX Sports. He previously spent a many years dealing with the Buccaneers for the Tampa Fl Gulf Moments and also The Athletic. You may observe him on Twitter at @gregauman. [Want wonderful stories provided straight to your inbox? Generate or log in to your FOX Athletics profile, follow organizations, groups as well as players to obtain a customized bulletin daily.] Get much more from National Football Game Observe your faves to get details regarding games, updates and even more.