Never before has a time-tested sports cliché so badly needed a revision.
Years of believing that “if you have two quarterbacks, you have none” has been replaced in this Year of the Backup Quarterback. Make room for: “If you don’t have two quarterbacks, you are done.”
The NFL postseason picture was altered by the (likely) season-ending injury suffered by the Jets’ Aaron Rodgers in Week 1, and the impact of season-ending injuries has continued with the Bengals’ Joe Burrow, the Vikings’ Kirk Cousins, the Browns’ Deshaun Watson, the Giants’ Daniel Jones, the Colts’ Anthony Richardson and the Chargers’ Justin Herbert.
The instant reaction to those injuries could be the increased valuing of backup quarterbacks during the offseason.
