Chase Young didn’t get Tom Brady after all. But, he did get something that almost resulted in an even better outcome: an unexpected performance from a teammate named Taylor Heinicke, who began the year employed by a football league that no longer exists.
Saturday night’s wild-card game between the Bucs and Washington was Brady’s playoff debut for a team other than the Patriots. Whoever would have thought that the star of the show would instead be Heinicke, who has played in fewer NFL games (eight) than the number of misspellings of his last name logged on Twitter during the game?