The 2022 offseason has seen a lot of movement at quarterback for each and every team across the NFC South. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers watched Tom Brady retire and then promptly un-retire about 40 days later. The New Orleans Saints, Atlanta Falcons, and Carolina Panthers all pursued Deshaun Watson, but he ultimately ended up elsewhere with the Cleveland Browns.
The Saints re-signed Jameis Winston with little to-do as that was always expected to be the team’s signal-caller until the Watson news started up. The Falcons soiled the relationship with their franchise’s best player in Matt Ryan and were forced to trade him to the Indianapolis Colts. Atlanta instead will head into the 2022 season with Marcus Mariota and rookie Desmond Ridder at quarterback.
The Panthers drafted Matt Corral to prepare for life post-Sam Darnold (though the Darnold era never took off). But followed that up most recently by trading for Browns former first-overall selection Baker Mayfield. Mayfield will now be the presumed starter in 2022 while the team works with Darnold and Corral.
It will be interesting to see what the Panthers do with Sam Darnold now, especially with PJ Walker also on the roster. With those signal callers now all in the same division, where do they all rank amongst their NFC South rivals? Here is my NFC South quarterback ranking ahead of the 2022 season.