Case Keenum had not started an NFL game in almost three years. On Monday night he threw two touchdowns, and the Chicago Bears held Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles to seven points in a 27-7 win.

Consider what the Eagles just lost to. A quarterback in his first start in almost three years, handed the keys for one night, drove the thing like he owned it. Philadelphia, meanwhile, scored once.

The market has a price for this, and the Giants just paid it. With Jaxson Dart out for the season, New York sent Minnesota a fifth-round pick for J.J. McCarthy. That is what one team paid for a starting quarterback when it was desperate and someone else was willing to sell.

Read the two stories together and the league's most expensive position starts to look like a position where the price and the performance barely speak. Monday night suggested certainty was never on the menu.

Chicago got the win. Philadelphia got seven points.