Ten years ago, when Carson Wentz was still in high school, and when the NFL was on the cusp of an unprecedented offensive boom, the league was in the hands of royalty. Longtime franchise quarterbacks were its faces. Payton Manning, Tom Brady, Drew Brees. The generation behind them had become entrenched as well. Philip Rivers, Eli Manning, Ben Roethlisberger, Aaron Rodgers. The highly touted QBs of the early 2000s had become the faces of the early 2010s, just as NFL scouts and general managers had envisioned.
In fact, of the 32 Week 1 starting QBs in 2011, 18 had between four and 10 years of NFL experience.