This could be the most important year for the QB position since 2017, when Patrick Mahomes and Deshaun Watson were drafted, and '18, when Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson entered the NFL. Three tenured Pro Bowl players on at least their second NFL contract—Matt Ryan, Watson and Russell Wilson—will be starting the year in different uniforms. Two stalwarts long believed to have eyes for the open market—Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers—will be returning to their former clubs.
All of these moves inevitably make the players’ respective teams better from a talent perspective. There is a reason teams sacrifice heaps of draft capital, guaranteed money and, in one particular case, personal morality, for one position in particular and a handful of players within that elite subgroup.
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