Zac Taylor, the second-year coach of the Cincinnati Bengals, was kind enough to return a call last week. His team drafted quarterback Joe Burrow with the No. 1 pick in April's NFL draft, and I told him we were doing a story about expectations for rookie quarterbacks. His first response was basically that he didn't feel like he had one.
"You're at the point where, out on the field with him, you don't even feel like you have a rookie quarterback," Taylor said of Burrow. "It doesn't feel that way.