Respectfully, we are only having this conversation because of the last 4 games of the season, as
@los226 pointed out.
It's easy to create this narrative when using raw stats but for metrics that takes things on a game by game basis, it doesn't work like that. Most metrics have him 14 and lower. I believe that the last 2 games gave us something to build on but to say that he played his way into a top 10 spot ignores over 75% of the entire season. Up until Week 15, the only thing that he could rest his hat on was completion percentage, which means nothing in the grand scheme of offensive production.