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It’s just preseason.
You hear that all the time across the NFL in August, because the scores and outcomes don’t matter and teams hold out many of their best players to avoid injuries. This weekend, for one reason or another, 665 players on NFL rosters didn’t play, an average of 20.8 per team.
But what this weekend’s preseason games did feature was the debut of six rookie quarterbacks selected in the first 12 picks of this year’s draft. It’s an exciting wave of potential new stars, all across the spectrum of NFL quarterback timetables: the Bears’ Caleb Williams and the Commanders’ Jayden Daniels are definite Week 1 starters, while Falcons projected backup Michael Penix Jr. may not play at all this season. Others are in competitions to see how quickly they’ll move their pro development to active on-the-job training.
None of the rookie QBs threw for even 200 yards, and some only had cameos to start their NFL careers. But add them up and they completed 64% of their passes, with 576 yards, three touchdowns and just one interception. Together, they had a 100.1 quarterback rating — any of them would do very well to pull that off in their rookie seasons.
So here are the big six and what we learned about them in this weekend’s preseason games.
CalebWilliams shows poise, improvisational skills
I know we’re not supposed to overreact to preseason — and I won’t. But if you’re a Chicago Bears fan, there isn’t much else you could have wanted to see from rookie quarterback Caleb Williams in his NFL preseason debut.
Williams didn’t play in the Hall of Fame game last weekend, much to the chagrin of most, but head coach Matt Eberflus set a target of 45 to 55 snaps for the “Prince who was Promised” leading up to the season. On Saturday against the Bills in Buffalo, Williams played two series, with both drives resulting in field goals. In 20 snaps, Williams ended up with four completions on seven attempts for 95 yards. He had a passer rating of 101.8.
More than the numbers, it…
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