The Wall Street Journal usually runs two stories in its daily sports page.
They don't have a lot of space to devote to backup quarterbacks, at least ones that aren't named Shedeur Sanders.
But in Monday's print edition, the WSJ ran a story on Green Bay Packers QB Malik Willis.
Willis will be a free agent after the season, and the Packers' fanbase obviously knows he's talented and has been key for them filling in for Jordan Love.
But in a widely read national publication, it was quite the topic choice. It shows just how intriguing Willis' free agency is.
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It ran on the same page as a story about the two major French soccer clubs in Paris preparing to play against one another. So the odds of Green Bay's backup QB making this section weren't high.
The story proclaimed that "after two seasons on the bench in Green Bay, he's emerged into one of the hottest free agents around."
The WSJ writer, Andrew Beaton, goes on to explain how there will be more demand for a new quarterback this offseason than there will be supply, and that should set Willis up to get paid handsomely.
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It also examines how Willis went from a struggling passer with the Titans, who was traded to the Packers for a seventh-round pick, into an efficient playmaker when called upon for Packers head coach and offensive guru Matt LaFleur.
None of this is stuff that Green Bay fans don't already know.
But it really is quite the feat that Willis found his way into the WSJ sports page. The readership of that newspaper can't have a lot of overlap with the intense NFL fans who know all about backup quarterbacks.
But now, a much wider audience has heard of Willis and knows he's heading toward big things.
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