The quarterback free agency pool is not somewhere any team wants to be during the regular season.
If a team is pursuing the quarterback market during the season, it either made a critical offseason error when evaluating its quarterback room or encountered something completely out of their hands: an injury to their most important player.
One week into the 2022 NFL season, there have already been a pair of notable QB injuries. Dak Prescott could miss up to two months after suffering a thumb injury on his throwing hand in the Dallas Cowboys’ season opener against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.