2025’s underwhelming QB class makes landing a QB this year that much more important.

[upstater1]

Drew Allar at PSU is not considered a top QB for next year.

But he is very mobile and incredibly accurate, doesn't throw INTs, and he has a huge arm. He's also really tall.

What can't he do? He's not in a great offense and hasn't excelled at yet at finding receivers, not that he has any talented ones.

But here's the thing: he's 20 years old.

This is why we just don't know about the college pipeline. There are players who are big, strong, fast and have a great arm. But they are so young or they play in suboptimal conditions, we just don't know what they can do.

 

[Pape]

We could easily be done with all the the QB drama... Just trade for the 199th pick and be done with it... Problem solved.

 

[Ivan]

We could easily be done with all the the QB drama... Just trade for the 199th pick and be done with it... Problem solved.

The odds you will get a 6 time Lombardi winner are better at 199 than at any other draft position.

 

[State]

Kyle McCord.

 

[Ras-IR Dowling]

Kyle McCord.

Is terrible.

 

[JohnJH]

With exceptions that have been few and far between, drafting a 'Franchise QB" has always been a crap-shoot. However, when a team does select the right one, and actually provide that QB with talent and solid coaching (unlike what happened to Andrew Luck), the benefits are tremendous.

 

[borisman]

Carson Beck will evolve into a top 5 pick.

 

[Ivan]

With exceptions that have been few and far between, drafting a 'Franchise QB" has always been a crap-shoot. However, when a team does select the right one, and actually provide that QB with talent and solid coaching (unlike what happened to Andrew Luck), the benefits are tremendous.

Doesn’t that support an argument to keep drafting a QB in the first round until you find your franchise QB? Because you aren’t going to Win a Lombardi without one, and that’s the only point of doing this.

 

[Love The Drake]

Archie Manning is the dream

 

[JohnJH]

Doesn’t that support an argument to keep drafting a QB in the first round until you find your franchise QB? Because you aren’t going to Win a Lombardi without one, and that’s the only point of doing this.

It does. If you don't have 'The Guy", you need to keep trying to acquire "The Guy". Although there have been a few times where a team has won the SB without a Franchise QB, those teams were one and done, then back to obscurity.

 

[Rob0729]

Correct me if I am wrong, but people considered the 2017 a horrible draft for QBs even immediately after the draft. Few people thought Mahomes was going be all that good. Even though many felt Trubisky was drafted too high (and he was), he was a lot of experts pick for being best QB available. Watson was another guy who wasn't considered to be a franchise QB by a lot of experts.

In contrast, some people were comparing the 2021 QB draft to the 1983 draft. Some experts felt it might be better. They called Lawrence a generational talent (he turned into an inconsistent, above average at best QB). They believed Zach Wilson was an almost can't miss pick. They thought Fields could be another Jackson or Mahomes.

Point is that predicting how good a draft class is going to be at QB a year out really doesn't mean much. If you said this time last year that Jayden Daniels would be likely to go #2 in the draft, people would think either you were insane or knew nothing about college football.

 

[Ivan]

It does. If you don't have 'The Guy", you need to keep trying to acquire "The Guy". Although there have been a few times where a team has won the SB without a Franchise QB, those teams were one and done, then back to obscurity.

Agree completely. And even QB’s drafted high that fail can often get a good return in trade, Wentz is a great example of that.

 

[Joey007]

Archie Manning is the dream

I know some of the rookies in this QB class are on the old side, but rolling with a 74 year old seems like a stretch.

 

[Love The Drake]

I know some of the rookies in this QB class are on the old side, but rolling with a 74 year old seems like a stretch.

Bro lol

 

[Ivan]

I know some of the rookies in this QB class are on the old side, but rolling with a 74 year old seems like a stretch.

I know that was a typo, but Bo Nix isn’t a day over 34