With the NFL’s new quantity guidelines changing into extra lenient, and EDGE rushers together with linebackers starting to put on extra single digit jerseys, we had been certain to get to a talent place participant being put in a jersey quantity that’s much more befitting of a participant a lot larger than him.
New Detroit Lions QB Teddy Bridgewater has simply crossed that lexicon, and folk it’s extra lovely than I imagined.
It seems so goofy, but I truly wish to see a QB put on the quantity 50 in an precise recreation. In fact, NFL guidelines solely permit QBs in a recreation to put on numbers 1-19, however with every thing else changing into extra lax, let Teddy go on the market and sling the ball round carrying 50.
Bridgewater has by no means been one to shrink back from norms on the subject of QB aesthetics both, rocking the 2 gloves on his palms even again to his time at Louisville. In fact he’s the one to put on the quantity 50, it simply feels proper.
Extra QBs ought to put on wonky numbers. The Patriots make all their rookies put on bizarre numbers, and when QB Mac Jones was a rookie, he additionally wore 50.
Mac Jones was given No. 50 to put on in coaching camp.
Yearly, the Patriots give that quantity to their first rookie drafted.
Final evening, Mac returned to 10, his Alabama quantity.
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— B/R Gridiron (@brgridiron) August 13, 2021
Let extra QBs get bizarre and put on bizarre jersey numbers. It will make them extra likable, plus the content material could be superior.
Teddy Bridgewater might be on the precipice of beginning a brand new wave, and I’m right here for it.