The future of NFL quarterbacking is already here. It's been arriving in short, staccato bursts over the past few seasons, like airplanes landing one-by-one on a single runway, but on Sunday, it arrived in full. And for anyone worried about the future of football once the likes of , , , , and ride off into the Nick Chubb Jersey sunset, Sunday was your answer: The future is fine. The entire armada has landed. Week 3 marked the first time in NFL history that , , which last happened 32 years ago. Despite the youth takeover at the sport's toughest position, one that is supposed to take years and multiple contracts to master, 17 starting quarterbacks submitted performances that generated pa ser ratings above 92.9, the 2018 season's average pa ser rating, which Of those 17 starting quarterbacks, 10 were under 27 years old. 23-year-old , filling in for , led the way with a 144.4 pa ser rating. And 26-year-old just mi sed the cut with a 91.4 pa ser rating, slotting in one spot below 26-year-old . Below, you can see how all 20 of those young quarterbacks fared in Week 3. It's saying something that tore up the for 374 yards and three touchdowns, and he only ranked third among his peers. Age Result Yards TDs INTs Rating 1. Kyle Allen 23 Win 261 4 0 144.4 2. 24 Win 351 3 0 135.8 3. Patrick Mahomes 24 Win 374 3 0 132.0 4. 26 Win 310 2 0 118.1 5. 25 Win 231 3 1 116.5 6. 26 Win 177 2 0 112.7 7. 22 Win 336 2 0 112.7 8. 25 Lo s 380 3 1 112.4 9. 23 Win 204 2 0 108.2 10. Carson Wentz 26 Lo s 259 2 0 94.6 11. Dak Prescott 26 Win 246 2 1 91.4 12. 25 Lo s Joe Schobert Jersey 304 0 0 81.7 13. 24 Lo s 174 2 1 81.4 14. 23 Win 243 1 1 Rashard Higgins Jersey 81.1 15. 24 Win 269 2 2 79.8 16. 22 Lo s 173 2 2 73.1 17. 22 Lo s 267 0 0 70.6 18. 24 Lo s 195 1 1 64.0 19. 22 Lo s 200 0 0 61.9 20. 24 Lo s 98 0 1 47.2 (Side note: I turned 27 on Tuesday, so this feels like an especially symbolic article for my editors to have a signed me -- who can no longer deny he has firmly entered his late 20s -- but I digre s). For a number of years, as we watched Brady and wage the war to end all wars against each other and Rodgers emerge as arguably the best-ever thrower of the football (until some guy named Mahomes came along) and Brees win his first Super Bowl, and so on, it felt like we were already living in the golden age of quarterbacking -- not that that was a problem. We weren't greedy. We'd enjoy it while we could, take what we can get, and worry about the future later. But a always loomed ahead. What would happen when those quarterbacks faded away? Would the NFL be able to replace those icons, some of the best quarterbacks in the history of football? Would the league be starved for quarterback succe s? And if the league did experience a shortage of great quarterback play, would it begin its own decline? The NFL is only as good as its quarterbacks. It's not just the most important position in the sport, but the most important position in all of sports. So, it was especially concerning when a number of draft cla ses failed to produce top end quarterbacks. They weren't all as bad as the 2010 and 2013 quarterback cla ses, but most of them weren't nearly as good as the last few quarterback cla ses that have generated the likes of Mahomes, Watson, Mayfield, and Jackson. For your viewing displeasure, the 2010 quarterback cla s: John SkeltonJonathan Crompton Sean CanfieldAnd the 2013 quarterback cla s: B.J. Daniels It turns out, there's no reason to worry. As the past couple seasons have demonstrated and as Sunday reinforced, the future will be fine without those legends -- largely because there already appears to be a few quarterbacks in the proce s of writing their own legends. Through the first three weeks of the season, four of league's best five quarterbacks by QBR are under the age of 27. Brady -- who might actually be immortal -- is the only quarterback over the Damarious Randall Jersey age of 26 that made his way into the top five. NFL Leaders, Total QBR:1. Dak Prescott .................... 89.92. Pat Mahomes .................. 89.63. Tom Brady ....................... 85.64. Lamar Jackson ................ 80.25. Deshaun Watson ........... Cleveland Browns Jersey .. 74.5 Mike Leslie (@MikeLeslieWFAA) I supposed we should begin with Patrick Mahomes, because, well, he's Patrick Mahomes -- the reigning MVP who is on pace to throw for 6,373 pa sing yards and 53 touchdown pa ses one year after becoming the second quarterback in NFL history to throw for 5,000 yards and 50 touchdowns in a single season. He's off to the best start to a quarterback career in NFL history. In his first 20 games, surpa sed HOF Dan Marino as the fastest to throw 60 career pa s TD (25 games) since 1970. Mahomes also surpa sed HOF Kurt Warner ( ) for the most games (13) with 300+ pa s yards in a player's first 20 career games. NFL Research (@NFLResearch) Fun game. Patrick Mahomes career vs. All-time bestY/A Mahomes 9.0Graham 9.0 AY/A Mahomes 9.9 Rodgers 8.39Rating Mahomes 115.3Rodgers 103.0ANY/AMahomes 9.19Rodgers 7.34TD% Mahomes 8.2%Luckman 7.9%Yards/GameMahomes 328.8Brees 281.4 Heath Cummings (@heathcumming sr) On Sunday, he took apart the Ravens for 374 yards and three scores. We thought he'd regre s, both in Andy Reid's scheme and against NFL defenses. It was only two-and-half years ago that Brady said It's a scary thought: If Mahomes did what he did a year ago as a first-year starter, what happens when he gets the answers to the test? The larger point being, there's a very real chance that Mahomes is well on his way to becoming the greatest quarterback in NFL history. The quarterback that Mahomes beat on Sunday is in the middle of his own ascent. After taking over for midway through last season and operating in a run-heavy offense that never required him to complete more than 14 pa ses in a single game, Lamar Jackson has shown