We began 2020 with Lamar Jackson as the MVP. Patrick Mahomes was the next GOAT. Deshaun Watson played the beleaguered magician. And Josh Allen looked ready to explode.
The 2020 rookie quarterback class was loaded. Even Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence, who hadn’t even left college yet, was an electric storyline from the NFL’s first quarterback snap of this season.
Somewhere behind that collective Champagne pop for the next generation, Tom Brady emerged as the aging “all-in” gamble of a hapless Tampa Bay Buccaneers franchise. And further north, Aaron Rodgers absorbed the Green Bay Packers spending a first-round draft pick on a player who is being groomed to eventually take his job.