5 NFL teams who will have new starting quarterbacks in 2021
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Washington 5-7 entering Week 14) has a chance to win the NFC East this year. But they also don’t know who their quarterback will be next year. Alex Smith is a great story and he has played well since taking over as the starter, but he will turn 37 in May and it’s palatable financially for Washington to part ways after the season.
Dwayne Haskins probably deserved a better shot, but the new regime led by head coach Ron Rivera appears to be done with him. Kyle Allen, despite the coaching staff’s familiarity with him from time together in Carolina, is no team’s idea of long-term answer or a capable starting quarterback.
Washington are toward the top of the league in projected 2021 cap space right now, and their first-round pick could offer an option for a quarterback of the future (North Dakota State’s Trey Lance?).
There will be a wide array of options if they want to pursue them. But it feels like a foregone conclusion that Smith, Haskins and Allen won’t be the starting quarterback come Week 1 next season, and one or two of them probably won’t even be on the roster.