Some people just loathe social media even if it would be financially beneficial to them. You can try to force it or have a team behind it but in the end if it don't come naturally it won't be a huge success. I fucking hate linkedin and even tough in my job it is advisable to be active there I just can't get myself to do it lol
He didn't have an Instagram account until summer 2022. He isn't big into social media and I think it was probably his agent/PR people that made it for him thinking "A SB winning QB has to have some kind of social media presence".
They’re archived, if you know what you’re looking for, you can still find it. Even once deleted
Or someone can hack your account and recover all deleted posts and leak them
I dunno man, I was a teen in the 90's and early 00's (2003 high school grad, 2007 college) and I knew not to say the N-word, much less put it on facebook when I was in college (yeah, that's right, I'm old enough to have been on facebook when it was a college only thing)
Not that I think he should be like out of the league or whatever, but I think it's disingenuous to pretend that it was just a teen thing to publicly post racial slurs. Even most teens are smart enough not to do that shit.
I mean, I “hate” Josh Allen as a division rival and fail to see how we should be judging what he said as what a 13-15 year old? Tells me more about the people judging him than the dude himself 🤦♂️
Exactly. It was dumb. But teenage kids do dumb things. I had a leader in the military tell me once, "I expect privates to act like privates." That mentality has really helped me be a lot less judgemental.
Tbh my favorite quarterback is Lamar because of how gracefully he’s handled the shit racism of the NFL. AND he got his bag. AND he’s fucking balling out still. If he snapped and went on a prejudice kick on twitter I would have been surprised it didn’t happen so much sooner with all the BS he’s gone through.
The idea of agency applies to everyone, and because of that people are complex as hell. There’s a reason why so many people are so stupid in this country, and we’re lying to ourselves if we think that proper academic/social education isn’t 100% a privilege 😕.
Kind of funny because Burrow rarely posts, and when he does it’s not interesting. It’s either some sponsored post or a repost of something Bengals social put, and he’ll add a caption like “I like football”
Honestly kind of surprising that Herbert is below 1 million. And Stafford being second to last on this list is interesting too, but it looks like he doesn't post a lot and he first posted 5 months after his Super Bowl win.
Kirk is also surprising given that he got a lot more attention with the Quarterback show, which I thought was fairly popular
I'm pretty sure his team runs the thing too, I don't think Justin has ever posted anything on his IG that wasn't done by his publicist or someone like that
Odell, Brady, and somehow Antonio Brown are way higher than anyone on this list lol. Not that I wasnt expecting AB to not be super famous but 3rd mlst of any player is wild
Dak is pretty inactive Instagram. For a while, he would literally only post sponsored posts. Now he does post a few more personal things, but very rarely. And more related to his family and less about football.
Even if he beats out Brisket in Camp or pre season I would prefer they would let Brisket start for the first games at least. This is not going to be a play-off season so its better to let the Maye get practice reps and give some games for the oline to work it out.
You're the first one with the actual correct answer. For years he was the most profitable Christian athlete on social media, might still be. It wasn't Seahawk fans buying his "Good Man Brand" clothing
Surprised Jalen and Dak are so close in follower count. Dak has been around for a lot longer and is the QB for the biggest sports franchise in the US. Guess people love the whole "speaking in Instagram captions" thing.
I'm not on Instagram but I imagine Russell's posts are the cringey, awkward things that used to get reposted to reddit in years past. He's the Urkel of the NFL.
Trevor Lawrence's follower count being that low (relatively) is a little surprising to me. Compared to most everyone on this list he was hot shit very early on in college, won titles, beat Bama, all that jazz.
See I always knew Justin Herbert was the better QB and the talk of Harbaugh trading him and picking JJ was absurd. I mean JJ doesn't even have more instagram followers!
Honestly not that surprising, especially since Stroud is well-liked and he plays in big market Houston as compared to Lawrence who plays in a much smaller market.
The best way to avoid any sort of controversy is to just not say anything basically lol. Even in Buffalo where we worship the man we don’t know a ton about him since he’s actually a super private person
Stafford just can't connect with the youth.
How do I reach these keeedz
*This is Bill Beeeeelicheck*
When Beel Belicheck got caught with his camera what did he say? “I misinterpreted the rules”
Staffords count is actually shockingly low
Meanwhile his wife has 430K followers
His wife puts out pretty interesting content
Isn’t she like a blogger or influencer or something? Kind of makes sense.
Seriously how is that possible, I would have guessed he’d have 5x that many before leaving Detroit let alone winning the Super Bowl in LA.
I just checked and he only posts like 3x a year. Last post was December 2023. But still
Because his account is kinda new. Opened it after SB win.
Some people just loathe social media even if it would be financially beneficial to them. You can try to force it or have a team behind it but in the end if it don't come naturally it won't be a huge success. I fucking hate linkedin and even tough in my job it is advisable to be active there I just can't get myself to do it lol
He didn't have an Instagram account until summer 2022. He isn't big into social media and I think it was probably his agent/PR people that made it for him thinking "A SB winning QB has to have some kind of social media presence".
As someone who is also in their late 30s, makes sense
most NFL players have pretty low follow counts
He connected pretty well with Puka last year.
Okay, but that's literally just one extra follower.
This comment made me laugh more than I care to admit lmao
needs some help from kelvin gemstone - hear he's real popular with the yutes
“What’s up with the youth?” -Corey Feldman
He didn’t have an account until after his Super Bowl
Allen learned his lesson when his tweets from high school came out so now he just doesn’t post anything
Wait what tweets?
He used to tweet a lot of stuff about penises and had a fondness for using a 5 letter word you hear in rap songs a lot lmao
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"what's wrong with that ?" Not the one in Jacksonville "Oh..."
pubes?
Dats rite, pubba
Breaking news: Immature teenager says stupid stuff on social media
Idk why there isn’t someone on staff for every college player that just combs and culls old tweets
They’re archived, if you know what you’re looking for, you can still find it. Even once deleted Or someone can hack your account and recover all deleted posts and leak them
I dunno man, I was a teen in the 90's and early 00's (2003 high school grad, 2007 college) and I knew not to say the N-word, much less put it on facebook when I was in college (yeah, that's right, I'm old enough to have been on facebook when it was a college only thing) Not that I think he should be like out of the league or whatever, but I think it's disingenuous to pretend that it was just a teen thing to publicly post racial slurs. Even most teens are smart enough not to do that shit.
[They're pretty funny.](https://www.barstoolbets.com/blogs/982335/old-tweets-from-josh-allen-have-been-dug-up-and-they-are-actually-bad)
Wow, he tweeted exactly how I thought a drunk college student would
That is actually hilarious. ‘I loveeeee penis’
Making hoes wobble like on a earthquake
Driving naked
Said the n word a couple times and said something about if it ain’t white it ain’t right
Yeah that bastard quoted Modern Family when he was 15
Mainly quoting rap lyrics, but used words he shouldn't have used
I mean, I “hate” Josh Allen as a division rival and fail to see how we should be judging what he said as what a 13-15 year old? Tells me more about the people judging him than the dude himself 🤦♂️
Exactly. It was dumb. But teenage kids do dumb things. I had a leader in the military tell me once, "I expect privates to act like privates." That mentality has really helped me be a lot less judgemental.
guarantee if it was a black quarterback saying something bad about white people yall would not have this same energy 😂
This
Tbh my favorite quarterback is Lamar because of how gracefully he’s handled the shit racism of the NFL. AND he got his bag. AND he’s fucking balling out still. If he snapped and went on a prejudice kick on twitter I would have been surprised it didn’t happen so much sooner with all the BS he’s gone through. The idea of agency applies to everyone, and because of that people are complex as hell. There’s a reason why so many people are so stupid in this country, and we’re lying to ourselves if we think that proper academic/social education isn’t 100% a privilege 😕.
Gamer words
Allen and Kyler were running twitter 10 years ago .
Kind of funny because Burrow rarely posts, and when he does it’s not interesting. It’s either some sponsored post or a repost of something Bengals social put, and he’ll add a caption like “I like football”
But girls think he’s hot, I think.
He looks like his parents went on a trip to Paris without him.
We don't think he's hot, we *know.*
Yeah Burrow is cute as a straight woman I will confirm
yes, we do. also, Josh Allen is a lot better looking in person. 2nd hottest starting qb Right now.
Bills always in 2nd
Jalen hurts clears
Did Jalen Hurts die
Not just girls
LSU fans are doing a lot of heavy lifting. He’s a God here. Also he’s hot so he has a lot of female followers.
As one of like five girls in this group, he is hot.
Huh. I just assume everyone i talk to on this sub is a girl
Safe assumption to be honest, everyone knows there's no guys on the internet.
As a fellow girl with a tik tok folder dedicated to joe burrow, he’s hot
Hard disagree.
Burrow has the cool factor tho
Just made a comment about this. Can’t teach cool…
Burrow is him though.
Nah I like his posts. He doesn’t do it a lot but when he does I fw his captions
He’s pretty
Of course Travis Kelce has more than every QB but Mahomes.
He'll pass Mahomes in a few weeks at this rate
Odell has more than all of them and hasn’t had a decent season in over 5 years
Well he has the biggest cult behind him.......... for now.
The most important take-away of this table is that the Vikings have the best QB in the NFCN.
I was looking for GEQBUS this whole time
Darnold is the guy who should be on this list, tbh
They tried to count his followers but numbers don’t go that high
Stop the count!
He has over 250 billion followers on Truth Social, but mainstream media won't allow you to see it. Sad.
And he's not even starting yet
Honestly surprised how high Brock is. Guess the fanbase is big enough that he'll have a ton regardles of how active/inactive he is on social.
It's because the media talked about him a lot. Mr. Irrelevant to Superbowl Appearance.
Unnecessary AOC stray i believe the job belongs to Minshew 😂
At this point it’s O’Connells to lose. Which, statistically, he probably will.
Minshew has 535K for the record so get outta here, AOC. Get yourself a van and we'll talk
Honestly kind of surprising that Herbert is below 1 million. And Stafford being second to last on this list is interesting too, but it looks like he doesn't post a lot and he first posted 5 months after his Super Bowl win. Kirk is also surprising given that he got a lot more attention with the Quarterback show, which I thought was fairly popular
Justin makes a few football posts a year and the rest are brand deals with dr squatch
Dude literally created his IG like right before the draft. It’s entirely about the brand deals lol
Yeah honestly not surprised that the Sheldon High School Fishing Club president isn't an avid user of IG lol.
I'm pretty sure his team runs the thing too, I don't think Justin has ever posted anything on his IG that wasn't done by his publicist or someone like that
Maybe Justin Herbert isn’t a social media quarterback after all?
Oh he is he’s just not even good at it
Matthew Stafford's wife has more than twice as many followers as him. In fairness, like half her posts include him, the other half their cute kids.
If the internet taught me anything kids will get you the most virtual points.
And cats
I don’t think Stafford had an instagram till 2 years ago
Yup. When he was in Detroit he was not on any social media.
Kirk is blowing up on Facebook
JJ has the most of all the rookies. Clearly this mean he will be the best of them. 😤
AFC North is clearly the best division in the league. And like always, Cleveland is bringing up the rear.
Checks out.
DK has more followers than like 80% of the QBs, shocked Dak has so little for being the Cowboys quarterback.
Odell, Brady, and somehow Antonio Brown are way higher than anyone on this list lol. Not that I wasnt expecting AB to not be super famous but 3rd mlst of any player is wild
Dak is pretty inactive Instagram. For a while, he would literally only post sponsored posts. Now he does post a few more personal things, but very rarely. And more related to his family and less about football.
Josh Allen is the same way, if I were an athlete I’d be highlighting my workouts and day to day activities with the fans for sure.
No one went to Aidan O'Connell's birthday party
Okay, that made me suddenly laugh out loud. Thank you for that
LOL Stafford. Seriously though, it probably means he's psychologically healthy since he clearly doesn't use it much.
Caleb is going to be top 10 by the end of the season.
The fact that Purdy is already 9th is wild
The day Jimmy went down he was below 10k I think. How times have changed
I was just reminded that the Raiders did not address their QB room and stuck with AOC Edit: uh GARDNER MINSHEW!?
They have Gardner Minshew too
Gardnew Minshew plays QB the way NFL QBs played the position in the mid 90s and I absolutely love it.
Minshew would have thrived in era single bar face masks.
Just edited. Come on OP. AOC will not be starting
He won’t be but don’t tell half our sub that
Gardner Minshew talks exactly like Zach Saracen in Friday Night Nights. Like he has no idea what the next word might be.
My bad guys. I guess I don’t follow the Raiders well enough to know who their starting QB will be in 2024. Minshew has 535,000 IG followers.
I deleted the Gram or else I’d check how many IG followers he has. My guess is 800,000.
535,000 from the looks of it
So she has to try to fix Congress and QB the Raiders at the same time? Tough life
715,000 people wanna watch Kirk Cousins grill.
sam darnold is starting not jj Mccarthy
Maye is also not starting this year
Unless he beats out Brisket. OP should put up Jacoby's numbers, which are: 168.7k
Even if he beats out Brisket in Camp or pre season I would prefer they would let Brisket start for the first games at least. This is not going to be a play-off season so its better to let the Maye get practice reps and give some games for the oline to work it out.
How is Russ so high?
He was a god in the Northwest for a decade, and the Seahawks have fans in Alaska, BC, Idaho, Oregon, Barcelona…
Montana gets Seattle as their local games as well. Run into quite a few Seahawks fans whenever I’m there.
Used to be a popular young QB for what became a high profile team (Seattle) and played in 2 memorable Super Bowls against high profile teams
It’s Ciara
And Jesus.
Nazareth nation! Lets ride!
You're the first one with the actual correct answer. For years he was the most profitable Christian athlete on social media, might still be. It wasn't Seahawk fans buying his "Good Man Brand" clothing
Bingo
The number of reasons to follow Russ is uniiiiiiiiiimited.
he’s probably super invested in his marketing team. Hints why he does hundreds of commercials EDIT: he’s also married to Ciara(35m followers)
That makes sense! Thank you
Because he was a part of Broncos nation... Let's Ride!
He’s also married to Ciara and gets posted on blogs a lot bc of their relationship
Any answer other than Ciara is wrong
Matches his high knees. EEYOOO
He’s Ciara’s husband
Same reason Travis kelce has an absurd amount
Without ever having looked at Wilson's, I just assume it is run by his PR firm
Ciara’s husband.
Future’s kids stepdad Russell Wilson
Farva says FUCK your followers, and where's my goddamn liter of Cola, chickenfucker? BaGAWWKKK
Dang I would've guessed there would be a couple without an IG account. I guess I'm out of touch.
Nah it’s pretty much require for PR and sponsorships I think. Some just don’t use it at all
This proves we made the right choice in Daniel’s over Maye.
How does Wilson have so many? A lot of high stepping enthusiasts out there.
Ciara Was exciting to watch in his prime. Also he’s not shy about his love of God.
Who is Aidan O'Connell?
Love that Burrow is #3 with practically zero media presence. The brrrrrrrr effect is real. Imagine if they win the Super Bowl…
I’m still not convinced Daniel jones exists off the football field.
Surprised to see Stanford so low ngl
His wife used to be both of their social media presence in Detroit. Guess LA life has him on Instagram but guess still not too interested in it.
Hurts literally speaks in instagram captions and riddles every presser, how is he not top 5?
Brock Purdy should get to count Anna Frey followers too.
I can't believe we got the No2 QB in the league for Vet minimum.
This is surprisingly low, thought Mahomes would have 10 mil plus
Where does Travis Swift rank amongst the QBs?
Surprised Jalen and Dak are so close in follower count. Dak has been around for a lot longer and is the QB for the biggest sports franchise in the US. Guess people love the whole "speaking in Instagram captions" thing.
How does Carr have more followers than Cousins? Carr has negative swag compared to Cousins.
2 die hard fan bases
And they said Justin Herbert is a social media QB.
How many followers does Kenny pickett have?
Crazy that Odell has more followers than all of them, even more than Brady. Just goes to show that social media doesn’t really mean anything
women think CJ is hotter than Herbert confirmed
Caleb >>> Love. Goff surprises me with his smoke show wife and Ryan gosling looks.
Justin Herbert pretty much just posts his golfing or brand deals
Now do their backups. That’s an interesting list as well
Herbert wtf are you doing bro
Once again leading the nfc west
I’d like to see these figures before and after Will Levis ate the banana and drank the mayo coffee
That pretty low when you think about it Bron has 160 Million that more than all NFL Players combine wtf
I just found out Herbert has an IG lol
Fields has 1.1m
Mr. Unliiiiiiiiimited
Jj got the whole mid west following him, Illinois high school champion, Michigan national champion, now Minnesota
NFL has a young fan problem.
I'm not on Instagram but I imagine Russell's posts are the cringey, awkward things that used to get reposted to reddit in years past. He's the Urkel of the NFL.
Derek Carr has a lot more than I thought he would
Who is Aidan o compel
These are all shockingly low numbers. Maybe Americans don't use Instagram?
Now do it with our actual starting quarterback
Stafford just made his IG tho to be fair
We gotta get AOC over 100k!
Finally, a list that has Purdy ranked among the top 10 QBs!
Trevor Lawrence's follower count being that low (relatively) is a little surprising to me. Compared to most everyone on this list he was hot shit very early on in college, won titles, beat Bama, all that jazz.
See I always knew Justin Herbert was the better QB and the talk of Harbaugh trading him and picking JJ was absurd. I mean JJ doesn't even have more instagram followers!
Surprised Stroud has more followers than Lawrence
Honestly not that surprising, especially since Stroud is well-liked and he plays in big market Houston as compared to Lawrence who plays in a much smaller market.
To be fair, half the people who follow Russ do it so they have his corny videos show up in the feed lol
Did you really use Aidan O'Connell over Minshew?
If Josh Allen frequently posted he'd probably have more followers
The best way to avoid any sort of controversy is to just not say anything basically lol. Even in Buffalo where we worship the man we don’t know a ton about him since he’s actually a super private person