Those varying approaches to the NFL’s top young quarterbacks make Goff and Wentz proxies in one of the league’s fiercest battles: how—and how quickly—to develop the next generation of NFL quarterbacks. But there’s an increasingly popular argument inside—and outside—NFL circles that teams with young quarterbacks should actually give them less time. ENLARGE Quarterbacks Jared Goff, left, and Carson Wentz were selected with the first two picks in the NFL draft. Hal Arkes, a psychologist at Ohio State, says the NFL quarterback conundrum is a classic example of the problem with sunk costs. He was named Carolina’s starting quarterback by Week 3.

Source: Wall Street Journal September 09, 2016 18:56 UTC