Mac Jones obtained no votes from NFL coaches, executives in ESPN QB ballot

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Jones was not on final 12 months’s record both.

A minimum of the expectations of Mac Jones received’t be notably excessive this 12 months.

On Monday, ESPN launched a ballot of coaches, executives, gamers, and scouts, which measured the temperature of the quarterback place across the NFL. Every respondent was requested to ship within the 10 quarterbacks they anticipate to be the perfect within the league this 12 months.

After a really troublesome 12 months in 2022, the Patriots‘ 24-year-old quarterback — maybe unsurprisingly — obtained no votes. He was not included within the prime 10, honorable point out, or among the many quarterbacks who obtained votes.

The highest 10 didn’t embody many surprises — Patrick Mahomes and Joe Burrow have been first and second respectively, adopted by Josh Allen and Aaron Rodgers. Trevor Lawrence made his first look at No. 8, whereas Matthew Stafford rounded out the highest 10. Derek Carr and Tua Tagovailoa have been among the many gamers who merited honorable mentions, whereas gamers like Geno Smith, Daniel Jones and Justin Fields all obtained votes.

In whole, 19 quarterbacks have been named. For the second 12 months in a row, Jones was not certainly one of them.

Jones and the Patriots had an opportunity to make the playoffs final 12 months, however a 35-23 loss to the Payments doomed them to an early offseason.

“Because the quarterback, I put the blame on me,” Jones mentioned on the time. “It’s my offense, it’s my group of fellows. And we’ve got to place a greater product on the market. It begins with me. …

“I realized rather a lot. I realized greater than something I ever may have imagined in a soccer season, and simply need to have the ability to construct on it.”

Final month, Jones instructed reporters he has been making an attempt to fill his “psychological, bodily and emotional” buckets up “the precise means” this offseason.

“Generally essentially the most assured individuals come from a 12 months the place they may not have been their greatest. I really feel like that’s the place I’m at,” Jones mentioned. “Actually nice individuals are shaped by ups and downs. Among the studying experiences I had final 12 months will actually assist. There’s lots of issues I can do higher as an individual, as a participant.”