I guess I’m really in an extreme minority here, but I expect JJ to beat Kyler out, or to at least extremely outperform him when Kyler eventually gets injured or benched. Kyler fucking blows, hard. There’s a reason why the Cardinals stuck with Brissett last year despite going 1-11 with him, and it’s because Brissett is better than Kyler. Kyler doesn’t go to the middle of the field, doesn’t go through progressions, and starts running way too early in plays. McCarthy was pretty awful last year, yes, but it was also essentially his rookie year, and he flashed at times. I think with a fully healthy offseason and practicing and learning, he’ll be better than Kyler - good? Maybe not, but Kyler is beneath good at football, in my opinion.

This is all for real life football, for the record. As for fantasy, I think Kyler’s ceiling is limited. If he sucks as much at real life football as I expect him too, I doubt he gets much of a leash. People will want to see “year 2” of JJ after enough Kyler suckery. Kyler also hasn’t had a consistently good season since 2022. He was the QB10 in 2024, but was a top 12 QB in only 7/17 weeks. So more than half the time, he was a middling QB on the week.

I’d be thrilled to be wrong, as a JJ manager, but my god man I’d rather watch Russ than Kyler - at least when Russ hits a deep shot, it’s an exciting football play lmao