NFL Week 15 Practice Squad Power Rankings: The Backup Quarterback Playoffs are here

A week ago, The Practice Squad Power Rankings had backup quarterback flavor. This week, I’m going next level and highlighting the Backup Quarterback Playoffs, otherwise known as Week 15 in the 2023 NFL regular-season schedule. 

After whatever that Easton Stick vs. Aidan O’Connell battle was last night, we’ll be treated to the following: 

And we’ll see Joe Flacco, Tommy DeVito, Zach Wilson, Bailey Zappe and Davis Mills take on normal starters in games that either feature a team with a winning record or at least one with reasonable playoff aspirations. 

I’m not sarcastically using the term “treated” either. In those two Saturday games, it’s only fair we get backup vs. backup. And when it’s backup vs. backup, unprecedentedly, strange things can occur. We all should be down for that. 

Plus, too, the rest of those backups are, yeah, playing some good football. Flacco looks like he’s back on ESPN2 in the FCS playoffs at Delaware. DeVito has cemented himself as a made man in Giants lore, Wilson went over 300 in a rainstorm against the surging Texans last week, Zappe won in Pittsburgh against T.J. Watt and Co. in prime time, and Mills, yeah well maybe the verdict is still out on him because Sunday will be his first start of the 2023 season.  

Funny, too: The Backup Quarterback Playoffs occur the same week in which we get Dak Prescott visiting Josh Allen’s Bills, Trevor Lawrence hosting Lamar Jackson, and a juicy “Monday Night Football” clash between Geno Smith and Jalen Hurts in Seattle. 

To celebrate the Backup Quarterback Playoffs, everyone in this week’s PSPR is on a team starting a backup in Week 15. 

As for The Call Up Tracker (the CUT), there were three elevations for Week 14 — RB Tyler Goodson, TE Stephen Anderson and WR Marquez Callaway, ensuring what I call a “winning season,” meaning, the PSPR is now guaranteed to average at least one call-up per week. The number…

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Author : Chris Trapasso

Publish date : 2023-12-15 16:46:03

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