Carson Wentz will become the 11th starting QB for the Washington Commanders since 2018 when he takes the first snap in Sunday’s season opener with Jacksonville.
The 2016 #2 pick has thrown for 20,374 yards, 140 TDs and 57 INTs in six NFL seasons, and has a 44-40-1 record as a starter in stops at Philadelphia and Indianapolis.
The Eagles won the Super Bowl in 2018, and Wentz was 11-2 as the starter that year, but he missed the last three regular-season games and the playoffs with a torn ACL.
The 2017 regular season would turn out to be his high-water mark to this point. Post-ACL injury, Wentz has gone 26-29-1 as a starter, and he’s only quarterbacked a team in one playoff game, a 2019 wild-card loss to Seattle, in which he was knocked out with a head injury in the first quarter.
A trade to Indianapolis ahead of the 2021 season was supposed to start a new chapter, and Wentz put up good numbers for the Colts – throwing for 3,653 yards, 27 TDs, seven INTs and a 94.6 passer rating, but Indy finished 9-8 and missed the playoffs, and in the offseason, the front office traded for Atlanta veteran Matt Ryan to be the new QB1.
Wentz is a definite upgrade for Washington at QB from last year’s starter, Taylor Heinicke, an ODU alum, who was 7-8 as the starter, throwing for 3,419 yards, 20 TDs, 15 INTs and an 85.9 passer rating.
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