We are in the dawn of a new age in the NFL… the age of quarterback mobility. We have been on the verge for perhaps a few years now, with Tom Brady and Matthew Stafford leaving their teams and finding immediate championship level success. But with the 2022 offseason in full swing, we are witnessing unprecedented levels of quarterback movement.
The modern NFL has typically had a very robust free agency period, with star receivers, running backs, linemen and defenders finding new teams who believe they are the missing piece to contention. This has applied to all positions except the game’s most important one. Typically, quarterbacks of franchise caliber do not find themselves looking for new cities as their current teams work hard to prevent them leaving.
Sure, there has been franchise quarterbacks who went on to new teams at the tail end of their careers, such as Philip Rivers. But it is certainly not the norm. Nor is it a situation where the new team is going to get multiple years of high-caliber play.
