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QB confidence rankings: Where Washington Football Team stacks up in NFC East

By Jonathan Eig

Washington Football Team QB Ryan Fitzpatrick. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
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Miami Dolphins QB Ryan Fitzpatrick. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports
Miami Dolphins QB Ryan Fitzpatrick. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports /

NFC East QB Confidence Rankings: Washington Football Team

  • Starter: Ryan Fitzpatrick – 6.5
  • Back-up: Kyle Allen – 4.5
  • Deep Back-up: Taylor Heinicke – 2.5

If they weren’t going to trade for Matthew Stafford, Ryan Fitzpatrick was probably the best the Football Team was going to do this off-season. As a short-term answer, he has a lot to offer.

Fitzpatrick will bring leadership and savvy, and an arm that can still go deep. He has been a very streaky player over the past several years, and it will be interesting to see how he meshes with the philosophies of Ron Rivera and Scott Turner.

I am not certain it will all work out, but if we are talking confidence, I certainly place more trust in what he will do this season than in what Jones and Hurts may or may not do.

You can flip Allen and Heinicke if you want. I have always thought Allen is a very good backup QB. He can do a little bit of everything, and he showed rather well in his brief audition last season before an injury knocked him out.

Rating him higher than both Glennon and Flacco may be a touch of over-confidence, but at least Allen has started in the league and shown the situation is not too big for him. If he has to play in 2020, I suspect he will perform well.

I am not quite as confident in Heinicke. Come on – it was one game. But based on that one game, I certainly give him the nod over any other third-teamer in the division.

So, the final rankings look like this:

  1. Dallas: 58.25
  2. Washington: 57.0
  3. New York: 48.5
  4. Philadelphia: 44.5

To me, this bodes pretty well for the Washington Football Team, at least in 2021. As I said, these confidence ratings do not consider long-term value.

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Fitzpatrick is a decade older than any other starter in the division. The Washington Football Team still has to find a long-term solution. But for 2021, given Washington’s increasing talent pool on offense, and first-rate defense, the QB situation tilts a bit more toward Mahomes than to Starfish.

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