Kaepernick Not Yet Ranked Among NFL’s Best QBs

In less than two full seasons as an NFL quarterback, Colin Kaepernick has led his team to a Super Bowl and two NFC Championship Games.He's still only 26 years old, has a 17-6 record in the regular season and is 4-2 in the playoffs. Plus, his touchdown-to-interception ratio is 31 to 11 and he's proven to be perhaps the most electric running quarterback ever. His speed in the open field is spectacular.So why, in a recent rating of NFL starting quarterbacks by ESPN.com, was Kaepernick ranked 14th overall, in the second tier? Are there really 13 QBs in the league better than the 49ers'?Kevin Lynch of the San Francisco Chronicle brought up Kaepernick's rating recently, asking if Kaepernick was unfairly rated. - Battle to Replace Bowman Should Be Interesting CompetitionThe top-rated quarterbacks are Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees and Andrew Luck. The second tier (in order) were ranked as Philip Rivers, Ben Roethlisberger, Matt Ryan, Tony Romo, Russell Wilson, Eli Manning, Joe Flacco, Matthew Stafford, Kaepernick and Nick Foles.Rankings were based on a formula of evaluations by NFL coaches and front-office talent evaluators, wrote Mike Sando of ESPN, who put...