

Wentz has even reportedly been open to a backup job, something he did last season when the Commanders stuck with Taylor Heinicke for a stretch even after Wentz’s finger injury. But the 30-year-old has plenty of experience playing for the Philadelphia Eagles, Indianapolis Colts and Commanders. Yes, Wentz’s signing wouldn’t be terribly inspiring for a team that thought Rodgers was going to be its quarterback this season. At least, we know he can still hit one target. “Throwin’ darts in the woods while waiting to throw darts on Sundays,” Wentz wrote, including a picture of him in hunting gear next to a shot deer.
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ESPN reported Tuesday that Flacco remains in “good shape, waiting for another shot.”Ĭarson Wentz: Hours before Rodgers went down, the former Commanders starter - still unsigned, by the way - gave an update on his life on Instagram. That might make him less appealing, but that hasn’t stopped Flacco from being interested in the gig. One important note, the Jets’ offensive schemes have changed since last season - meaning Flacco would have to learn an entirely new system. The 38-year-old also recently told ESPN that he still has a desire to play football and is not retired. I encourage you to use the game-by-game tables and data points here in conjunction with the player rankings that will be available every week this season on Wednesday and enjoy the games.Ĭlick the matchups below for the individual game previews.Joe Flacco: Is he the most realistic candidate to replace Rodgers? Flacco spent the last three seasons with the Jets and started four games for New York last season. We will update this article throughout the week to reflect major news or injury implications. If you have been following this post for the past few seasons, tangible information builds up and this post expands with information. Robbie Anderson and Devin Duvernay were top-12 scorers.įor the most part, early on we are focusing on initial usage notes to grasp onto moving forward. Major grains of salt still need to be applied when taking an evidence-based approach this early in the year.Īt this time a year ago, Carson Wentz was the QB3 in overall scoring. Things are still far too early in development to just run wild with what happened in one week as something that will be continuous this season, but hopefully, offenses across the league have a counterpunch lined up. Teams blitzed on 25.3% of drop backs, right in line with the 25.8% rate a year ago. We are still seeing a lot of the things we did a year ago from opposing defenses.ĭefenses played man coverage on just 22.9% of passing plays, slightly down from the 24.4% rate we had during the 2022 season. The collective rate of 6.3 yards per pass attempt was the lowest rate for the league in Week 1 in the 2000s. For context, last season was a down year overall for scoring, and there were 73 offensive touchdowns scored in Week 1. There were just 61 total offensive touchdowns scored, the fewest in Week 1 since the 2017 season and the second-lowest of the past decade. Hopefully, everyone had a great Week 1 and started the new season off on the right foot.įollowing a low-scoring 2022 season, Week 1 got off to an overall ugly foot this season. The Worksheet is a comprehensive weekly fantasy football preview for each NFL game. Rich Hribar analyzes the matchup for every notable fantasy player for every game every week of the NFL season. Welcome to Week 2 of The Worksheet, a comprehensive fantasy football preview, by Rich Hribar.
