Is it too soon to give up on the 2021 and 2022 NFL Quarterback classes?

Especially the five first-rounders of the 2021 NFL Draft. Considering that four of those five were traded to other teams and are now backups especially since Mac Jones is now the backup to the number one overall draft pick and the only guy with the original team in the first round in Trevor Lawrence though later-round picks Kyle Trask, Davis Mills and Sam Ehlinger are still with the teams that drafted them and this is out of ten quarterbacks. That means 60 percent of the quarterbacks weren't with the teams, and 66 percent of those were first-rounders. It's understandable if the guy was drafted fourth round or later. I think those late round picks are lucky to make the team or a team but when your a first round pick and you're going in three years that's a problem. Well we don't know that's going to happen if Trask and Ehlinger make the final in the final cuts, I believe Mills will be safe and we don't know what will happen with the QB race in Pittsburgh with Russell Wilson and 11th pick of the 2021 draft Justin Fields and keep in mind Fields might have a chance either at the start of the season or later on since Wilson's last two years haven't really been that good and Wilson will be 36 during the season. I also looked at the 2022 NFL Draft QB class and it's not much better. Actually, you could say it's worse with nine quarterbacks and where only two guys (Bailey Zappe and Mr. Irrelevant himself Brock Purdy) are still on their original teams as of August 26th. That might change depending if Zappe staying as the third QB and what the Titans will did with Malik Willis they traded to the Packers. Is giving the guys ahead towards their fourth or third seasons too soon? I know it's possibly now because the NFL put a cap on how much to pay rookies and not have a team spending a QB 50 million straight out of college like the St. Louis Rams did with Sam Bradford. Also, the rookie contracts are only for four years with an option for the fifth season depending on how the draft pick does. So it's easier for teams to cut bait if the guy doesn't pan it in his second or third season. Is it fair? Depends who you are. It's not for the player. The team and the coaches it is because they want results DAMN IT!!!! and they want it NOW!!! and wait. It's sad but it's true. You make the case that coaches are to blame some of these QBs for not panning now. Trevor Lawrence had to deal with Urban Meyer who had no business coaching in the NFL though the Jaguars corrected that by firing Meyer and replacing with Doug Pederson and Lawrence had a good second year. Regress last season but the Jags decided to roll the dice and paid Lawrence nearly 300 Million. Mac Jones actually went on to have a Pro Bowl rookie season. Sadly, for him his offensive coordinator Josh McDaniel left after that season and became the head coach of the Raiders and he was replaced Matt Patricia and Joe Judge both didn't have experience calling offensive plays and it went as well as you think it did, terrible. Bill Belichick hired Bill O'Brien who is experienced in calling offensive plays but that didn't go well either and they traded Jones to the Jaguars to be Lawrence's backup. No wonder why Beliclick got the boot after last season or was forced into retirement. I don't know I should feel more sad for Jones or Trey Lance who got hurt in his second start of the 2023 season and later 2022 Mr. Irrelevant Purdy who actually replaced Jimmy G who replace Lance started and Purdy nearly delivered the 49ers into the Super Bowl that season and that made Lance expendable and he got traded to the Cowboys where he's the third-string QB. Also, I wonder if the Steelers picked Kenny Pickett in 2022 at 20th because in 1983 they had a chance to draft another quarterback from Pitt at the 20th pick but passed on him. That quarterback was Dan Marino. Also, I think Pickett would have been a second-round pick if the Steelers passed on him. Is it too to get him on these guys? Who knows, someone could get hurt one of those still on the roster could have another shot. Geno Smith comes to mind. He was a top Quarterback prospect in the 2013 NFL Draft felt to the second round to the Jets, struggled, and bounced around until he was named the starter for the 2022 Seahawks after they traded Wilson. Smith is coming from back-to-back Pro Bowl seasons and still the starter for the Seahawks and his backup is Sam Howell, a 2022 draft pick. However, as of right now, it doesn't look good except for Lawrence and Purdy.            

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