It sure is a good time to be a backup quarterback in the NFL, or even the backup's backup. The leaves are still green and already five teams have turned to their QB2 either because of injury ( Vikings, Packers, Steelers and Dolphins ) or inefficacy ( Panthers ).
The leaves are still green and already five teams have turned to their QB2 either because of injury or inefficacy .
Tagovailoa will miss at least three more games as he works through the NFL’s concussion protocol. And if Thompson misses time, the Dolphins will turn toThe list of backups pressed into duty will assuredly grow and one of them could end up as the next version of, who was a backup QB sensation in San Francisco in 2022 and then led the 49ers to the Super Bowl in as their starter last season.may have been slated as Minnesota's starter until rookie J.J.
As NFL senior researcher Tony Holzman-Escareno noted, that was the quickest a quarterback had ever done that to his former team. Previously, Red Dunn of the Chicago Cardinals had a TD throw and a TD run against the Milwaukee Badgers way back in October 1925 after being traded by them 34 days earlier.signed with Pittsburgh for the veteran's minimum of $1.21 million, leaving the Broncos on the hook for the remaining $37.79 million of his 2024 salary.
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