Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes, Jalen Hurts and Matthew Stafford combined to throw zero passes in Week 18 last season.<\/p>\n
In place of those resting stars, Mitch Trubisky, Carson Wentz, Tanner McKee and Jimmy Garoppolo quarterbacked playoff-bound teams. Not to mention that Marcus Mariota and Davis Mills replaced Jayden Daniels and C.J. Stroud, respectively, out of caution during games.<\/p>\n
With apologies to the family members of backup quarterbacks everywhere, nobody wants to see preseason strategies in January games. But Super Bowl contenders often determine that the risk of suffering a key injury in Week 18 is greater than the reward for playing starters.<\/p>\n
Is that about to change? It could be \u2014 and it should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes, Jalen Hurts and Matthew Stafford combined to throw zero passes in Week 18 last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,6,84,9,2833,3248],"class_list":{"0":"post-63751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-nfl-playoffs","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sports-columnists","13":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114537631987492225","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63751","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=63751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}