Week 1 is the first step in confirming the unknown of an NFL season. It's seeing teams that spent the offseason as sleeper candidates take their first step toward their potential. It's watching rookies emerge. It's staring slack-jawed at the screen as you wonder why a team would trade away a Hall of Famer in the middle of his career who appears to be single-handedly reducing an entire offense to dust, and then seeing another Hall of Famer hobble back out to rescue a season that seemed lost and then immediately found again.
The Week 1 replacements who set the tone for 2018, and what comes next
