Washington Redskins rookie quarterback ranked No. 28 on the NFL Network’s “QB Index” for the 2019 season. It’s hard to argue with the rankings, as for the majority of Haskins nine games in his first year in the NFL, there were more growing pains than success.
Haskins finished the season with seven touchdowns and seven interceptions, but four of those touchdowns came in the final two games of the season. It was great to see things get better with time, but NFL Network isn’t wrong in saying it was pretty tough to watch at the start.
The more the rookie played, the better he looked. That said, he couldn’t have played much worse than he did in his first three starts. I do believe the arrow is pointing up for the former Buckeye, but with this exercise limiting our scope to only the totality of his 2019 campaign, Haskins was far less impressive than some of his fellow first-year signal-callers.
What matters now isn’t a ranking of the league’s top quarterbacks, but rather what Haskins does in his second year in the NFL. That’s when the production really starts to matter.
