The 2022 NFL season has been the league’s most competitive season ever. In fact, 158 games have been within one score in the fourth quarter, the most-such games through the first 14 weeks in NFL history. With so little separation in the standings between most of the league with only four games to play, there are plenty of key questions left to be answered before the start of the playoffs.
Here’s a look at 10 of the biggest questions around the league, and what may lie ahead for the rest of the 2022 season and beyond.
Will this be the last we see of Aaron Rodgers?
While Aaron Rodgers once called his football future a “beautiful mystery,” the back-to-back reigning NFL MVP has 58.3 million reasons to return to the Green Bay Packers in 2023. His three-year extension worth $150 million that he signed last offseason has a guaranteed option for that large sum of $58.3 million.
It would be wild to see him walk away from that money as well as a shot at continuing to play with a rapidly developing Christian Watson, the receiver the Packers selected with the 34th pick in the 2022 NFL Draft. The 6-4, 208-pound wideout, who ran 4.36 40-yard dash at the combine, has caught seven receiving touchdowns in the last four games, tied for the sixth most in the NFL this season.
With the Packers off to a 5-8 start — Green Bay’s worst record through 13 games since 2008 when Rodgers first became the starter — there’s a strong chance the four-time NFL MVP doesn’t want to go out on the sour note that is the 2022 season. Expect Rodgers back at Lambeau Field in 2023.
Who’s most likely coaching for their jobs?
The reality of coaching in the NFL is only 14 of 32 teams make the playoffs, so there are at least 18 unhappy ownership groups every year without beginning to count playoff teams feeling like they’ve hit a ceiling. In each of the last 10 seasons, there have been at least five new head coaches, with the last coaching cycle’s nine being the most in that span. Here’s a look at a few head coaches who will most likely be sweating out the first few days of their offseason.
Jeff Saturday (Colts): Saturday knew he was coaching for his job after coming off the set of ESPN’s television studios to replace the fired Frank Reich as Indy’s interim head coach. The former Colts center, who was a six-time Pro Bowler, two-time First-Team All-Pro and Super Bowl XLI champion, has a lot of street cred built up…
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