Though he has not yet played a regular-season snap, Mac Jones has already been in NFL headlines for months.
This isn’t necessarily abnormal for someone in Jones’s position: He was a first-round pick, battled in a preseason quarterback competition, and is now set to lead a team that’s been one of the most successful in the NFL over the last two decades.
Yet Jones has already become even more a topic of conversation given his specific circumstances. He wasn’t simply the 15th overall pick, he was also the first quarterback that Bill Belichick ever drafted in the first round.