With 2021 entering the final week of it's first month, the wheat has started to become separated from the chaff.

Whether your side is unbeaten or unbackable, each of the NRL's 16 teams still have quandaries to ponder as the road to September begins to narrow.

Once again, here are the big questions facing every team as they enter a blockbuster Easter Round of Rugby League.

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North Queensland Cowboys

Are they ready to stop digging yet?

After just three weeks, it is clear that North Queensland's season could not get any worse.

Just ask Josh McGuire.

Across 240-minutes of Rugby League in 2021, the Cowboys are averaging a pathetic 8.6 points per game, but are conceding a mammoth mean of 31.

Todd Payten's team is currently so flat that you could slide them under a door, but with a trio of winnable games in as many weeks, is this the point that the Cowboys start digging themselves out of their own grave?

Should the Townsville based team manage to secure wins against Cronulla, Wests and Canterbury, then their horror start will become a distant memory.

Should they fail to capitalize on these friendly fixtures, then it will only prove that they aren't content with their already mile deep hole.

With a roster on paper that is much better than their results, it is up to Payton and those that chew up the vast majority of their salary cap to begin digging up.

For McGuire, it appears as though his nightmare stint in Townsville is over.

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