WESTFIELD – It seems as if it were only a blink of an eye ago these two were the NFL’s crown princes, faces of The Next Generation of Quarterback, primed to one day meet with a Lombardi hanging in the balance. One year in the league for each didn’t refute that, not one bit, didn’t temper the outsized and ambitious expectations that met Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III the minute they entered the door.
No, it furthered them. As rookies, these two were that good.
But somehow, that was six years ago, back when the fate of franchises sat on their respective shoulders and a handful MVP trophies felt like an inevitability.