The Fantastic Four soon could find the Sophomore Six breathing down their necks.<\/p>\n
It is commonly accepted across the NFL that the MVP race and the AFC\u2019s spot in the Super Bowl run through the league\u2019s undisputed four best quarterbacks: the Chiefs\u2019 Patrick Mahomes, the Bills\u2019 Josh Allen, the Ravens\u2019 Lamar Jackson and the Bengals\u2019 Joe Burrow.<\/p>\n
But Mahomes is about to celebrate his 30th birthday, and Jackson and Burrow will join Allen as 29-year-olds before the playoffs begin. They still have plenty of prime years left to do more damage, but the landscape will be crowded if the historic 2024 draft class makes the clich\u00e9d Year 2 jump.<\/p>\n
Can the Bears\u2019 Caleb Williams, the Commanders\u2019 Jayden Daniels, the Patriots\u2019 Drake Maye, the Falcons\u2019 Michael Penix Jr., the Vikings\u2019 J.J. McCarthy and the Broncos\u2019 Bo Nix \u2014 all of whom were top-12 picks in the most quarterback-heavy top of the first round of all time \u2014 start nipping at their elders\u2019 heels?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fantastic Four soon could find the Sophomore Six breathing down their necks. It is commonly accepted across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[254,925,1036,391,258,833,7,1519,125,734,1879,259,249,6,13835,252,9,3248,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-343483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-atlanta-falcons","9":"tag-bo-nix","10":"tag-caleb-williams","11":"tag-chicago-bears","12":"tag-denver-broncos","13":"tag-drake-maye","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-j-j-mccarthy","16":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","17":"tag-jayden-daniels","18":"tag-michael-penix-jr","19":"tag-minnesota-vikings","20":"tag-new-england-patriots","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-nfl-playbook","23":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-sports-plus","26":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115151383526520623","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}