With Carson Wentz and Aaron Rodgers getting healthy, the Eagles and Packers have every reason to feel confident in their QB depth charts. AP Photo/Matt Rourke

Are you feeling any more confident about your team's quarterback situation than you were three months ago?

Remember this before you answer: The question is about confidence. Not hope. Not optimism. Confidence. This is a great time on the NFL calendar for hope and optimism. Maybe your team signed a guy you like, or drafted one, or both. That doesn't necessarily mean things are fixed to the point of confidence. Draft picks take time to develop. Free-agent signings don't always click in Year 1.

Fortunately for you, dear reader, we maintain a laser focus here with our periodic QB Confidence Index. You may not like where your team sits on our list, but before you get too angry, remember what we're talking about here. Not hope, not even faith. Confidence.

Before we get to the list, our usual disclaimer that no one reads: This is not merely a ranking of starting quarterbacks. This is a ranking of teams based on how confident those teams are in their quarterback situation as a whole. That means it includes the reliability of the backup situation, the injury history (recent and otherwise) of the starter, the long-term plan at the position ... lots of stuff other than just which starting QB is better. So try to remember that as you peruse, and thanks as always for doing so.

Here's the post-draft edition of the QB Confidence Index.

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ARI | ATL | BAL | BUF | CAR | CHI | CIN | CLE | DAL | DEN | DET | GB | HOU | IND | JAC | KC | LAC | LAR | MIA | MIN | NE | NO | NYG | NYJ | OAK | PHI | PIT | SF | SEA | TB | TEN | WAS

We kept them out of the top spot back in February because starter Carson Wentz is recovering from a torn ACL and there's a good chance he's not ready for Week 1. But as we'll discuss in a second, the situation with the team that sat in this spot last time (the Patriots) has grown murkier. And if ever there were a team built to earn the top spot on a list like this, it's a team that knows it has its franchise guy for the future and whose backup just won a Super Bowl MVP trophy. If it's Nick Foles to start the season, the Eagles have plenty of confidence he can get it done.

Starter Aaron Rodgers is on his way back from an injury too, but there's no indication that training camp or any part of the regular season is in jeopardy. The Packers soon will demonstrate their confidence in Rodgers with a lucrative long-term contract extension. Backups include Brett Hundley and DeShone Kizer, who combined to start 24 games in the NFL last season. How many teams' QB rooms can make a claim like that?

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Tom Brady turns 41 in August, hasn't been to offseason workouts, seemed to at least dangle the possibility of retirement at one point this offseason and doesn't seem to be on super-great terms with coach Bill Belichick. As long as Brady is playing, he's in the discussion for best QB in the league, along with the guy we discussed at No. 2. But Brian Hoyer isn't the most confidence-inspiring backup, given the loftiness of the Patriots' goals, and seventh-round pick Danny Etling isn't likely the long-term successor. Brady's brilliance keeps the Patriots this high on the list, but a high level of uncertainty locks them out of the top spot for now.

Drew Brees is poised to set all-time records for career passing yards and completions at some point early in the 2018 season. After Sam Bradford broke his record for single-season completion percentage in 2016, Brees came right back and broke it again last year. He's a slam-dunk Hall of Famer who, like Brady, shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. So even at age 39, he keeps the Saints at this lofty spot on the list. Tom Savage is the backup, and he has started games in the NFL, but like Hoyer in New England, he'd represent a significant drop-off should the starter get hurt.

This team is set for longer than the two teams in front of it because Russell Wilson is only 29. Had the Seahawks been a playoff team last year, Wilson -- who led his team in rushing as well as passing -- would have had a strong MVP case. He doesn't miss games, which mitigates the otherwise troubling fact that Austin Davis is his backup. Seattle is a prime example of a team whose confidence in its starter is enough on its own to merit a top-five spot.

Matt Ryan was obviously due for a bit of a comedown following his 2016 MVP season. But he's still reliably healthy and productive, and his second season with offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian should go better than his first did. Matt Schaub is the veteran backup who knows his role and the system perfectly, and the Falcons' confidence in Ryan was made clear a couple of weeks ago by the record $100 million in guaranteed money in his new contract.

Matthew Stafford got his huge contract extension last offseason, and nothing has changed here since then. Matt Cassel and Jake Rudock are the backups, but like the guys in front of him on this list, Stafford doesn't miss games. He plays hurt, he loves the offensive system in which he plays, his receivers fit what the Lions are doing perfectly and they trust Stafford to get them the ball. If the Lions have problems, quarterback isn't one of them. That's the definition of confidence.

We get into this zone every time we do this where things start to sound the same. Throw the Falcons, Lions and Chargers into a hat and pick them out in any order you like. Philip Rivers is 36, but last year he posted his highest Total QBR since 2014 and his lowest interception total since 2009. He won't be around forever, and Geno Smith and Cardale Jones don't look like long-term success solutions. But Smith has played in the league, Rivers doesn't miss games and as long as he's there, the Chargers can be confident in what they have.

Yeah, $84 million in guarantees for Kirk Cousins tells you they're confident he's the missing piece. Underappreciated in Washington, Cousins has a chance to thrive with the receivers and running game the Vikings can put around him. Backup Trevor Siemian started 24 games the past two seasons for the Broncos, and while you may not have enjoyed watching them all, that's a better backup option than a lot of teams have. And by the way, three months ago, new offensive coordinator John DeFilippo was the quarterbacks coach for a team that won the Super Bowl with Nick Foles.