Maybe Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow will just be Patrick Ewing. Or Charles Barkley, or Karl Malone.
Burrow said about winning a Super Bowl, "The window is my whole career," and while that's a great line and Burrow is a remarkable player, it's also possible he, Josh Allen, Justin Herbert, Trevor Lawrence and whoever else will become the NFL's Ewing, Barkley and Malone, with great careers but no rings because they happened to play in the same era as the NFL's Michael Jordan.
The Kansas City Chiefs traded receiver Tyreek Hill, who was an All-Pro this season, got no veteran help back in that trade, didn't make a single huge addition in free agency and still won a Super Bowl .