Is the AFC South home of the NFL’s next up-and-coming QB rivalry?

The NFL has historically all the time had actually nice quarterback rivalries — ones that generally even appear greater than the sport itself.

Patrick Mahomes versus Joe Burrow. Peyton Manning versus Tom Brady. Troy Aikman versus Steve Younger. John Elway versus Dan Marino. And on Sunday, soccer followers might have witnessed the NFL’s subsequent nice QB rivalry. 

The AFC South showdown between the Jacksonville Jaguars and Houston Texans had all the pieces followers might need: back-and-forth motion, a number of offense (797 complete yards), loads of scoring probabilities (Jacksonville and Houston had been a mixed 5-for-6 within the pink zone) and late-game drama (Houston kicker Matt Amendola narrowly missed the tying 58-yard area aim, which shanked off the crossbar).

Oh, and there have been additionally two quarterbacks on the prime of their sport dueling it out in 24-year-old Trevor Lawrence and 22-year-old C.J. Stroud, who went blow-for-blow, filling up the stat sheet and giving followers a glimpse of what the following decade within the AFC South might seem like.