Does Your Favourite NFL Group Have a New Beginning Quarterback?

After falling a sport wanting the playoffs the season earlier than with Carson Wentz as their beginning quarterback, the Indianapolis Colts opened the 2022 season with excessive hopes after buying and selling for 2016 NFL MVP Matt Ryan. These hopes had been dashed pretty quickly as Ryan was a shadow of his former self and had simply 14 touchdowns in comparison with 13 interceptions in his 12 begins. When Ryan was benched, Indy’s different two quarterbacks, Sam Ehlinger (three begins, three TDs, three picks) and Nick Foles (two begins, zero TDs, 4 picks), didn’t precisely gentle it up.

After ending with the NFL’s second-lowest points-per-game common throughout the 2022 season, the Colts shall be going with a brand new beginning quarterback to start out the 2023 marketing campaign and have named first-round draft choose Anthony Richardson as their QB1. He shall be Indy’s seventh completely different Week 1 beginning quarterback in as many seasons. Although Richardson was “shocked” by the staff’s resolution to call him the starter, the 21-year-old doesn’t plan on giving up the gig.

“I need to be nice,” Richardson mentioned. “I need to be remembered. I don’t need to simply be a kind of guys like, ‘OK, he was within the league.’ I need my legacy to be without end, and I’m working. Simply making an attempt to work without end and construct [toward] a championship right here with this staff and this group.”

The entire speedy turnover at quarterback, a very powerful place in all {of professional} sports activities, in Indianapolis is a microcosm as almost half of the groups within the NFL will begin the upcoming season with a special starter than they opened with final September. By our rely, 14 of the NFL’s 32 groups can have a brand new beginning QB. They’re:

1. New York Jets: Aaron Rodgers (Zach Wilson)
2. Pittsburgh Steelers: Kenny Pickett (Mitch Trubisky)
3. Cleveland Browns: Deshaun Watson (Jacoby Brissett)
4. Houston Texans: C.J. Stroud (Davis Mills)
5. Indianapolis Colts: Anthony Richardson (Matt Ryan)
6. Las Vegas Raiders: Jimmy Garoppolo (Derek Carr)
7. Washington Commanders: Sam Howell (Carson Wentz)
8. Inexperienced Bay Packers: Jordan Love (Aaron Rodgers)
9. New Orleans Saints: Derek Carr (Jameis Winston)
10. Atlanta Falcons: Desmond Ridder (Marcus Mariota)
11. Carolina Panthers: Bryce Younger (Baker Mayfield)
12. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Baker Mayfield (Tom Brady)
13. Arizona Cardinals: Colt McCoy (Kyler Murray)
14. San Francisco 49ers: Brock Purdy (Jimmy Garoppolo)

Along with the quarterbacks listed above, Ryan Tannehill may simply lose his beginning job in Tennessee to Malik Willis or Will Levis and there’s an out of doors likelihood Patriots quarterback Mac Jones might be changed by backup Bailey Zappe or presumably even undrafted rookie Malik Cunningham.

Contemplating the significance of the quarterback place, it’s not stunning that groups are very prepared to make modifications in the event that they really feel it’s crucial. Nonetheless, it’s a bit stunning that so many groups felt like they wanted a change. Possibly it shouldn’t be, as the tip of an period at quarterback within the NFL is clearly upon us.