Everyone and their mother is expecting the Denver Broncos to do away with Russell Wilson before the 2024 training camp begins. The Russell Wilson experiment crashed and burned at Mile High City, and Sean Payton is actively looking for a new QB to replace the one-time Super Bowl winner.
There aren’t a lot of potential replacements for Mr. Unlimited in the free-agent market, and they don’t have a great draft capital to get the field general they like in a talented 2024 QB class.
Fortunately for Broncos Country, there’s one name that’s being thrown around as a potential Wilson replacement. However, his performance last season is a legitimate cause of concern.
Denver Broncos listed as the favored destination for Mac Jones
The proposed solution to the Russell Wilson conundrum is acquiring another exiled quarterback in Mac Jones.
While some Broncos fans may raise their eyebrows at the fact that they’ll be replacing Wilson with a signal caller who failed to make it work with the Patriots, Heavy’s Josh Buckhalter explained that Wilson wasn’t able to convince Payton that he’s the right man for the job:
Payton, for his part, has admitted he still has not “fallen in love” with a quarterback yet. And his description of what he is looking for out of a quarterback did not fit Wilson.
It does fit what New England Patriots quarterback Mac Jones showed as a rookie, though.
That is the argument 33rd Team’s Derrik Klassen made for Jones as a potential fit and reclamation project for Payton like Teddy Bridgewater in 2018 and, especially, 2019.
Mac Jones will be an interesting acquisition for the Denver Broncos, as he’s shown during his days in Alabama and his rookie season that he’s a capable QB.
However, his 2023 painted him as anything but effective: he only had 2120 passing yards, 10 touchdowns, and 12 interceptions before he was benched after 11 games. He’ll have to do a lot of improvement if he’s going to exceed Wilson’s 3070 passing yards, 26 TDs, and 8 picks.
If the Denver Broncos decide to pull this off, they’ll have a big challenge of transforming Jones into a dangerous QB. Otherwise, they’d look like the ones who fumbled if Mr. Unlimited regains his form in New England.
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