One could understand peoples’ desire to pump the brakes before the season on suggestions that Mac Jones was walking into a far better situation than his fellow rookie quarterbacks simply by virtue of playing for the New England Patriots.
After 16 regular-season games, though, is there really any debate about it?
Jones, the No. 15 overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft, utterly outshined No. 1 pick Trevor Lawrence in the Patriots’ 50-10 walloping of the lowly Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, punctuating the former Alabama quarterback’s supremacy over his draft peers.
His three-touchdown performance also gave him 21 scoring throws on the season, breaking Jim Plunkett’s previous franchise record for passing touchdowns in a season by a rookie (19).