NFL Playoff Picture: Ranking Top 5 Contending QBs

The playoff picture isn't complete yet, but four teams have already punched their ticket in some form or another.

While dominant defensive ability plays a major role in postseason football, the NFL is a quarterback-driven league dominated by elite quarterback play.

This postseason will be no different, and these are the top five contending QBs in the league right now.

Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay

The best in player in the league has yet to lose this season.

His numbers...

...speak for themselves. 

The defending champions are the favorites to win this season and Rodgers is on pace to break records all over the place.

Drew Brees, New Orleans

Without Aaron Rodgers in the way Brees would be the run-away MVP. These two kicked off the season and it would hardly be surprising if they met again in the NFC Championship Game.

The Saints QB is on pace to break career highs in touchdown passes, yards and completion percentage.

Tom Brady, New England

The Patriots haven't won a postseason game since the AFC Championship in the 18-1 season. Still, Brady is Brady and he's carrying a Patriots team with a mediocre defense and no run game.

Is there any other QB you want on the field with the game on the line in the postseason?

Actually, it's funny you should ask...

Eli Manning, New York

Nobody, and I mean, nobody, is doing what Eli Manning is doing in the fourth quarter of football games this season.

Talk all you want about the big numbers being put up elsewhere across the league, Manning is carrying the Giants offense.

He wins games late and he's done it the postseason before. There is possibly one other guy who challenges him or Brady in this category...

Ben Roethlisberger, Pittsburgh

Manning and Big Ben are going to make the 2004 quarterback class one of the best ever seen. Sure, we can even throw in Philip Rivers' statistics just for fun, but he hasn't won anything yet.

However, Roethlisberger already has two Super Bowls to his name and might be able to stand in front of a firing squad and not be fazed by their bullets.

One arm, one leg, one hand—it doesn't matter to Roethlisberger as long as he is on the field.

Oh, and Tim Tebow, Denver

He hasn't proven it in the postseason yet, but good grief. What more do you want from a guy who apparently can't play quarterback in the NFL?