Please have your tickets ready. The Mac Jones hype train is preparing to load up and roll out. Better hurry, space is filling up, as another well known NFL voice became the latest person to hop aboard for 2022.
Robert Griffin III, a former first round QB and Pro Bowler himself, tweeted Tuesday that he believes Mac Jones will likely be the first of the 2021 class of QBs to win a Super Bowl. That class includes Trevor Lawrence (the No. 1 overall pick), Zach Wilson and Justin Fields. Griffin later tweeted that Trey Lance, the third overall pick in 2021, is the outlier of the five first-round QBs of 2021 as he did not play serious time for the 49ers last season. The tweet came seemingly from out of nowhere, unprompted by any promotional or media appearances, though Griffin does work as a football analyst for ESPN.
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Last year Jones entered arguably the best situation of the five first-round rookie QBs, earning the starting job in camp, beating out Cam Newton and having by all accounts a solid first season, the best of that lot by far. While things don’t look terribly encouraging for Fields in Chicago, the situations for Lawrence in Jacksonville and Wilson in New York have improved. No word yet on whether Lance will start in San Francisco.
Still, to read such hype from an accomplished former QB has to be encouraging for Jones, who, as we’ve detailed here with frequency of late, has been putting in the work for Year 2. Perhaps it’s the combination of Mac’s rookie campaign and his work of late that has RG3 joining Peter Schrager of NFL Network and others in believing Mac Jones is bound for more success in his future in Foxborough.
There’s still time for some of the other QBs to blossom and succeed, potentially catching up to or even surpassing Jones statistically, though it remains to be seen if their surrounding situations will have the stability Jones does with Bill Belichick in New England. One thing’s for certain; the buzz is building, and there’s only a few months left to join the Mac Jones Hype Train, potentially soon a bandwagon, for 2022. Camp starts the end of July and the season kicks off Sept. 11 in Miami against his former teammate, Tua Tagovailoa and the much improved Dolphins.
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