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Written by The Sportsballers
Published March 3, 2023
We’re back again for another year of embarrassing ourselves as we try to foresee who the 32 starting NFL quarterbacks will be in Week 1 when the 2023 regular season kicks off this September.
We’re just weeks removed from the conclusion of the 2022 season and offseason activity has only just begun. While some players have already been cut from their teams, others are still waiting to learn their fate. With free agency and the draft yet to occur, there are serious question marks surrounding the QB position for roughly half of the NFL’s 32 franchises.
As we’ve done in the past, to separate ourselves from the experts you can find making predictions about who will start for each team next season, we use confidence points in making our picks.
If you see a 32 next to a name in one of our columns, it indicates that column’s host is 100% certain that player will be starting in Week 1. Each number from 32 down to 1 must be used exactly once by each host.
As such, a perfect score is 528. In 2021, Evan got 23 of 32 picks correct and led the way with 464 points. Cory finished second with 460 points and 22 correct predictions and Eric finished last with 439 points and 20 of 32 correct.
Last year, Cory and Evan each got 22 correct while Eric got 21 of his 32 picks right, but the points worked out so that Cory finished first with 441 points, Eric second with 426, and Evan last with 422.
So, through two seasons of making these predictions, Cory has 901 points, Evan has 886 points, and Eric has 865 points. Let’s see how our hosts do in 2023!
Final Results
Cory Puffett - 481 points (25 out 32 correct)
Biggest misses: 14 points on Aaron Rodgers for GB, 9 points on Bryce Young for LV, 8 points on Zach Wilson for NYJ
Best Prediction: 10 points on Anthony Richardson for IND (Eric and Evan put 6 points each on Bryce Young and Will Levis, respectively)
Eric Meyer - 475 points (23 out of 32 correct)
Biggest misses: 14 points on Aaron Rodgers for GB, 10 points on Trey Lance for SF, 8 points on Colt McCoy for ARI
Best Prediction: 13 points on C.J. Stroud for HOU (Cory and Evan put 11 and 5 points on Stroud, respectively)
Evan Ash - 439 points (21 out of 32 correct)
Biggest miss: 14 points on Colt McCoy for ARI, 13 points on Malik Willis for TEN, 12 points on Trey Lance for SF
Best Prediction: 9 points on Jordan Love for GB (Cory and Eric each put 14 points on Aaron Rodgers)
Teams two of us got correct:
Giants: Jones started; Cory had 4 points on Geno Smith
Mmanderz: Howell started; Evan had Heinicke. Mmanderz. Seven.
Seahawks: Smith started; Cory had 3 points on Will Levis
Rams: Stafford started; Evan had 10 point on Baker Mayfield
Teams one of us got correct:
Colts: Cory put 10 points on Anthony Richardson; Eric had 6 on Bryce Young, Evan had 6 on Will Levis
Packers; Evan put 9 points on Love; Cory & Eric each had 14 on Rodgers
Saints: Cory put 5 points on Carr; Evan had 4 on Richardson, Eric had 1 on Jimmy G
49ers: Cory put 7 points on Purdy; Evan (12) and Eric (10) each had Lance
Teams we all got wrong:
Jets (second year in a row): Rodgers started; Cory had Wilson, Eric had Carr, Evan had Young
Raiders: Jimmy G started; Cory had Young, Eric had Richardson, Evan had Rodgers
Bucs (second year in a row): Mayfield started; Cory had Jimmy G, Eric had Trask, Evan had Max Duggan
Panthers (second year in a row): Young started started; Cory had Pennies, Eric had Levis, Evan had Corral
Cardinals: Dobbs started; All three had McCoy (Cory 6, Eric 8, Evan 14)
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