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Around this time last year, we tried to set some realistic expectations for 2021’s lot of rookie quarterbacks. That felt like a difficult ask at the time, given that Bill Belichick was handling a true first-year player, Trey Lance was backing up Jimmy Garoppolo, the Bears had already said Justin Fields would start the season behind Andy Dalton and Zach Wilson was playing on an incredibly young Jets team.
We wanted to continue the exercise with the 2022 rookie quarterbacks (we did it in ’20 too), though with only one likely seeing potential starter’s snaps, that wouldn’t be much fun to read. Instead, we’ll lump Kenny Pickett and Malik Willis in at the bottom of this post and take a second swing with the class of ’21, given that six second-year QBs are going into this season as unquestioned starters.
