This year’s NFL season is almost done and a lot has happened especially with quarterback injuries. Seven starting quarterbacks have gotten injured and are missing the remainder of this year’s season, Joe Burrow, Aaron Rodgers, Anthony Richardson, Deshaun Watson, Kirk Cousins, Daniel Jones, and Justin Herbert. While others, Justin Fields, Kenny Pickett, and Matthew Stafford who have dealt with injuries throughout the season and have missed multiple games.
Anthony Richardson
Anthony Richardson, who is an upcoming rookie, had an amazing start to the year until he sprained his AC joint in week five against the Titans. Richardson was playing like he had been in the league for at least three years. In his fifth game, he suffered a sprained AC joint early in the game vs the Titans. In his four games played, he threw for 577 yards and three touchdowns. He only had one interception and a passer rating of 87.3. When he came out Garnder Minshew was announced the starting quarterback. Minshew has been on a handful of teams, Jaguars, Colts, and Eagles.
Daniel Jones
Daniel Jones had a rocky start to the year having six interceptions and only two touchdowns and a 70.5 passer rating. While the Giants were never looking at playoff contention, but were expecting an alright season of either a slightly below-average win percentage or a slightly higher win percentage. With Daniel Jones out, the undrafted rookie out of Syracuse Tommy Devito. Devito was a third-string quarterback for the Giants at the beginning of the season, but when Jones went down Tyrod Taylor came in. Then Taylor suffered a rib injury in week eight against the Jets. So from then on the rookie Tommy Devito has been the QB one for the Giants.
Deshaun Watson
Deshaun Watson is the starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. Watson has only played six games this season and he threw for 1,115 yards, seven touchdowns, and four interceptions. Watson’s throwing shoulder was injured in week ten and had to undergo a season-ending surgery to repair his right shoulder. When Watson came out the rookie out of UCLA Dorian Thomson-Robinson had to take his place. Thomson-Robison played two starts and then he suffered a concussion in week twelve versus the Denver Broncos. So the Browns signed veteran quarterback Joe Flacco who has been in the league for 15 seasons this season being his 16th.
Aaron Rodgers
This offseason the Jets made a blockbuster trade with the Packers giving them the 13th pick, 42nd pick, 207th pick in 2023, and a second-round pick in 2024. The Jets received veteran quarterback Aaron Rodgers, the 15th pick and the 170th pick in 2023. The Jets thought that getting Rodgers would give their team a run at a ring, but those dreams came to a close after the fourth snap of the 2023-2024 NFL season. Rodgers went down and he did not get up. The doctors said that he had a torn Achilles and would miss the remainder of the season, but Rodgers has been making amazing progress in his return just a few months after the tear he threw on the field to his teammates. Last week he practiced with the team but is not scheduled to play due to lack of playoff chance.
Kirk Cousins
To begin the year Cousins was off to what could have been an MVP year. Cousins only played eight games this season and tore his Achilles in week eight against the rival Green Bay Packers. In his first eight games, Cousins threw for 2,331 yards, 18 touchdowns, and five interceptions. He averaged 291 yards per game which was more than any quarterback at that time. When Kirk exited the game Jaren Hall came in to finish the job securing the win, but Hall’s quarterback experience came to a quick end when the Vikings traded for Josh Doubs from Arizona. Doubs started a few games and is now being replaced by Nick Mullens who has been in the league for seven seasons and has played for five different teams.
Joe Burrow
Star quarterback Joe Burrow suffered a torn ligament in his right wrist and was not able to throw without severe pain in week 11 against the Ravens on Thursday night football.. Burrow was off to a rocky start due to a calf injury and wasn’t fully recovered until week six. From weeks 6-10, it looked like the old Bengals were backing and going to make a run for the playoffs, but with Burrow out Jake Browning would come in to start and save the Bengals season.
Justin Herbert
The Chargers are on pace for their best year ever considering many people thought they were going to be playoff contenders and have a run at the Superbowl, but they are 5-9 and last in their division. The loss of Herbert doesn’t help this team’s losing record and it looks like they will not be making the playoffs this season. Herbert came out due to a finger surgery. With Justin out Easton Stick who had never started a game until this point.
