So how are the nine mistakes made ahead of Josh Rosen doing?

Two years after a quote for the ages, let’s check in on how the nine mistakes made of Josh Rosen in the 2018 NFL Draft are doing these days.

Remember when former UCLA Bruins quarterback Josh Rosen said nine mistakes were made ahead of him in the 2018 NFL Draft? Turns out, this quote has defined his unimpressive NFL career thus far.

Rosen was a former five-star recruit by UCLA in the 2015 high school class. The intellectual former tennis player signed on to play for Jim Mora in Westwood. He had an impressive true freshman season in 2015, but the UCLA program quickly went into the toilet in the coming years. Mora was fired after the 2017 NCAA season and in came failed NFL head coach Chip Kelly.

Kelly, who had great success in college leading the Oregon Ducks and very briefly in the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles, discussed with Rosen about a possible return to UCLA for his senior season. However, with major first-round buzz and an opportunity to cleanly break away from a UCLA program undergoing a culture change, Rosen wisely put his name into the 2017 NFL Draft.

Rosen would be the fourth quarterback taken in the draft, going No. 10 overall to the Arizona Cardinals. He is now on his second team in as many seasons with Miami Dolphins and may not be a starting quarterback in the NFL after all. Rosen spent the better part of the 2019 NFL season backing up journeyman signal-caller Ryan Fitzpatrick in Miami.

So what we’re going to do today is see how the nine mistakes made ahead of Rosen are doing these days, as well as check on how things are going for him down in South Beach.

When Rosen went to the Cardinals at No. 10, it was a new era in Arizona football albeit, a brief one. 2017 was the last year of Carson Palmer‘s NFL career. Former Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians opted to retire and call games for FOX before resurfacing as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers only a year later. 2018 was Rosen and head coach Steve Wilks’ only year together in Glendale.

Arizona went 3-13 in 2018, finishing with the worst record in the NFL. Rosen played in 14 games, going 3-10 as the Cardinals’ starter. He completed only 55.2 percent of his passes for 2,278 yards, 11 touchdowns and 14 interceptions. Rosen averaged 5.8 yards per attempt, amassed a quarterback rating of 66.7 and was sacked 45 times, going down once about every 10 dropbacks.

With Wilks getting fired after one season, the Bidwill Family opted to go with former Texas Tech Red Raiders head coach Kliff Kingsbury instead. Kingsbury had said while he was coaching in Lubbock he would draft former Texas high school phenom Kyler Murray of the Oklahoma Sooners No. 1 overall if he had the chance. Arizona did just that in the 2019 and shipped Rosen to Miami.

Arizona received a 2019 second-round pick in exchange for Rosen, as well as a fifth-round pick in 2020. In six games with the 2019 Dolphins, he went 0-3 as a starter, completing 53.2 percent of his passes for 567 yards, one touchdown and five interceptions. Miami went 5-11 in 2019, with Fitzpatrick quarterbacking the Dolphins to all five of their victories. Rosen faded into obscurity.