If you spent the last year in a cave unable to receive football-related information (perhaps your NFL Cave subscription expired), the current landscape would be a surprising one to take in as it pertains to the quarterback position.
Geno Smith is a franchise quarterback now. With the Seahawks. He broke Russell Wilson’s single-season franchise passing record and was rewarded with a three-year contract worth $75 million. Jared Goff is good, maybe on the verge of being really good. According to advanced metrics considered among the best measures of quarterback performance—a composite of completion percentage over expectation (CPOE) and expected points added per down (EPA)—Goff ranked ninth during the 2022 regular season, ahead of former MVPs Lamar Jackson, Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers (as well as a potential future MVP, Justin Herbert).
And Daniel Jones? The one you made fun of when the Giants selected him with the sixth pick of the 2019 draft because he looked like Eli Manning? Despite throwing to a collection of receivers that would most charitably be labeled as “backup caliber,” he just finished a breakout season, keying a five-win improvement for New York and putting on a masterful performance in a road-playoff victory over the 13-win Vikings.
