Most improved position groups in the NFL heading into the 2019 season

#8 Dolphins quarterbacks

I like what the Broncos have done at the quarterback position and I had them among my “honorable mentions”, but I have to credit Miami here because I think the resources they have given up and the money they invested into the position compared to what they have now is the best out there.

First, they signed long-time veteran journeyman Ryan Fitzpatrick, who is the one guy who has flirted with that starter-to-backup line more than anybody I can remember for about the last decade. We have seen him put together incredible stretches, just like he did at the start of this past season, but we have also seen him just throw away the job once he looks like “the guy”. Either way, there is not a lot of people who would be better as a spot-starter and veteran to have in that QB room. However, the big scoop for these Phins was the way they acquired a top-ten pick from just a year ago in Josh Rosen.

On day two of the 2019 draft, they traded down with the Saints and ended up giving Arizona that 62nd pick and a fifth-rounder for the second-year man, while having acquired a sixth and a 2020 second-rounder from New Orleans prior to that. So basically they swapped day three picks and pushed a round two selection back a year in order to pick up a quarterback, who I thought was worth a first-rounder and still believe in going forward.

Fitzy has looked good in camp according to reports and Rosen was the most talented pure thrower of the ball in last year’s stacked class of signal-callers. Those two guys lead to a cap hit of less than seven million quarterbacks, which is less than half of what they paid Ryan Tannehill cost them in each of the last two years. Plus, they could still follow that ridiculous idea of tanking for another guy next year.