The NFL's Early-Season Quarterback Injury Report is a Complete Disaster
Ian Rapoport shared updates from Good Morning Football detailing the good and the bad of the recent quarterback injuries.
The NFL season is barely two weeks old, and the quarterback injury report already looks like a CVS receipt of despair.
Ian Rapoport and the Good Morning Football crew just laid out the latest updates on a brutal wave of quarterback casualties. If you are holding a ticket or a fantasy share tied to the , , , or , it is officially time to panic-scroll your team's depth chart.
Let us start with the absolute disasters. Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart is reportedly staring down season-ending knee surgery after going down in a 28-6 blowout loss to the . Down in the capital, Commanders starter Jayden Daniels is officially out this week with a serious left elbow injury suffered while getting crushed by the .
Over in , Caleb Williams is week-to-week with a right hamstring injury. He went down late in a miserable 9-3 rock fight against the . The Bears are now staring at the very real possibility of handing the Monday night spotlight against the to or Case Keenum.
The only guy who seemingly dodged a season-altering bullet is Sam Darnold. The Seahawks starter left with a hip and glute issue, but scans ruled out a fracture. Drew Lock stepped in to keep undefeated, but Darnold remains a massive question mark for their upcoming schedule.
This level of quarterback turnover completely nukes the betting markets. When you swap out a dynamic starter for a guy who has spent the last two years holding a clipboard, the point spread does not just shift, it completely detaches from reality. taking over for Dart in is exactly the kind of chaotic variance that makes handicapping these games a total coin flip.
We are heading into Week 3 with up to six NFL teams relying on their backup quarterbacks. If your favorite franchise still has a healthy guy under center, wrap him in industrial bubble wrap, because the current survival rate in the pocket is dropping by the hour.