Few franchise quarterbacks fade away as clipboard-holding backups. Guys who once got it done at the highest level of the sport typically eschew the chance to make several million dollars per year as understudies, for a variety of reasons including, undoubtedly, a refusal to ever be anything other than “the guy.”
Matt Hasselbeck, who once was among the best quarterbacks in the NFL, has become one of the rare franchise quarterbacks to serve as the No. 2 behind a new franchise quarterback, with two full seasons and counting as the wingman for Andrew Luck.