
How the NFL’s ‘big-time’ crop of second-year QBs could crash the elite
NY Post
The Fantastic Four soon could find the Sophomore Six breathing down their necks.
It is commonly accepted across the NFL that the MVP race and the AFC’s spot in the Super Bowl run through the league’s undisputed four best quarterbacks: the Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes, the Bills’ Josh Allen, the Ravens’ Lamar Jackson and the Bengals’ Joe Burrow.
But Mahomes is about to celebrate his 30th birthday, and Jackson and Burrow will join Allen as 29-year-olds before the playoffs begin. They still have plenty of prime years left to do more damage, but the landscape will be crowded if the historic 2024 draft class makes the clichéd Year 2 jump.
Can the Bears’ Caleb Williams, the Commanders’ Jayden Daniels, the Patriots’ Drake Maye, the Falcons’ Michael Penix Jr., the Vikings’ J.J. McCarthy and the Broncos’ Bo Nix — all of whom were top-12 picks in the most quarterback-heavy top of the first round of all time — start nipping at their elders’ heels?

Cade Cunningham, almost inarguably the best player in the East this season, is likely out for the remainder of the regular season. That’s the word out of Detroit following the depressing news that Cunningham punctured a lung when he took a knee to his side Tuesday from Washington’s Tre Johnson while chasing a loose ball.

Wednesday was another positive day at Yankees camp. For the first time since March 6, 2025 — an outing in which he knew “something wasn’t right,” which began a weeks-long saga that ended on the operating table for Tommy John surgery — Gerrit Cole was back on a mound and facing hitters in game action.











