Which young quarterback will be the first to be benched during the 2023 season?
On Tuesday, BetOnline dropped odds on which newly drafted quarterback will find themselves being benched during the upcoming season. This, of course, is based on them winning the starting job with their respective teams.
Right now, Indianapolis Colts QB Anthony Richardson is -150 to be benched while Houston Texans QB CJ Stroud is +201 and Carolina Panthers top-drafted QB Bryce Young is +450.
Richardson gets that he enters the NFL with a minuscule 13 career starts with a 6-6 college record and having completed an ugly 54 percent number of his passes at Florida. The Colts drafted Richardson projecting what he could be in the future.
Houston Texans QB C.J. Stroud has been a star throughout OTAs, solidifying a strong case to start for the team in week one. Over two years at Ohio State, Stroud tallied 8,123 passing yards and 85 touchdowns with just 12 interceptions en route to a 2022 Heisman finalist bid.
Many have expressed some doubt about the 5-foot-10, 204-pound Bryce Young, but the Panthers didn’t use all of those valuable resources without a plan for their smaller No. 1 overall pick.
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Being the No. 1 overall selection in the 2023 NFL Draft means that Bryce Young is always going to be looked at differently. He’ll be scrutinized more than most, held to a much higher standard, and expected to deliver quicker than those taken after him in the pecking order.
Young’s greatest strength has always been his poise and his intellect. One metric Young has in spades over the rest of the 2023 draft class: cognitive speed, as determined by the S2 Cognition test.
Young finished the 2022 season completing 245-of-380 passes for 3,328 yards and 32 touchdowns.
