If you're an NFL fan with a pulse, your heart sank a bit on Thursday as you read about Deshaun Watson going down for the remainder of the season with a torn ACL. Every injury is bad, of course, but Watson may very well have been the most pleasant surprise of an often-dour 2017 season. As an exciting young player playing in a city that has been on a roller coaster through tragedy to the joy of Wednesday night's World Series victory, there might be no player in the league that neutral fans would have wanted to see stay healthy more than Clemson's national champion quarterback.
Watson's injury raises all kinds of questions. Let's try to answer a few of them here.It's difficult to say. The attrition rate in the NFL is remarkably and frustratingly high on a year-to-year basis, but it's fair to wonder if this season seems particularly bad. As I mentioned while recording my podcast with Mina Kimes, all you need to do to imagine an injury crisis in the NFL is to watch one or two commercial breaks during an NFL game. You're bound to see ads with Odell Beckham Jr., Aaron Rodgers and J.J. Watt, two of whom are done for the year with the other out indefinitely (Rodgers).
In terms of quarterbacks, let's try to contextualize the problem. As of Week 9, there are six starting signal-callers on the shelf: Watson, Rodgers, Sam Bradford, Andrew Luck, Carson Palmer and Ryan Tannehill. Jay Cutler, filling in for Tannehill, would qualify as the seventh if he's unable to play Sunday.
That's a high number, but not remarkably so. Last season in Week 9, for example, four starting quarterbacks
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Other passers such as Derek Carr and Marcus Mariota have missed shorter periods of time, so let's ask the question a different way. Have we seen more quarterbacks playing meaningful minutes through the end of Week 8 than in a typical year? One way to check for this is by just simply counting how many
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I'd argue we're not dealing with a disproportionate number of
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After coming in off the bench against the Jaguars in Week 1 and struggling through a dreadful Thursday night game -- admittedly one he won for the Texans with an excellent individual effort on a 49-yard TD scramble -- against the Bengals in his first NFL start, Watson was as good as any quarterback in football. After eight
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