What is Joe Milton worth?

[The Gr8est]

I’d have to see more nfl action from him before I would trade a 2nd. If we had neither Maye or Milton, you’d be good waking up and seeing the Pats traded a 2nd rounder for him? All it takes is one team I guess.

Exactly. QB is a different animal and teams often draft QBs higher than they should.

The thing about Milton is that he is just one year into his rookie contract and has shown real ability.

The Pats do not need to trade him, unless they get a really enticing offer. I would like to see what Josh might try and do with him with a few gadget plays.

No team needing a QB, who missed out on the top options, is going to let some team trade a 4th for Milton without making a countering offer.

Milton is too enticing to let another team get him cheap.

Competition is what will drive Milton’s value up.

 

[The Gr8est]

Right now? He’s worth a fifth round pick. He looked good against Buffalo, but that’s a difficult game to judge as the Bills coach didn’t want to win it. However it looked like he had made significant progress in his accuracy from the way he played at Tennessee, and that combined with his physical gifts makes him worth something. However the talk that he’s suddenly worth a 2nd or 3rd round pick is overly optimistic. But unless someone wants to pony up a second round pick I would keep him and continue to develop him.

He’s worth what another team is willing to give up for him.

 

[KCSVEN]

He's worth a third-round pick because he has the perfect physical makeup of an NFL QB. 3rd round picks are a hit on like 1 out of every 5 picks so worth a 3 to throw a dart for a QB that has all the physical traits. If you built a QB physically you would build Joe Milton.

Has his accuracy improved working with the QB coaches last year? It SEEMS they made adjustments, and he was pretty accurate in the 1 game throwing to open receivers. Gives you come hope. Remember Josh Allen from 2019 to 2020? That was not Daboll, Allen was stuck inside during covid, changed his mechanics, especially the fact he was overstriding with the lower half on throws. He still has some accuracy issues but night and day with a huge mechanics change. Daboll somehow got credit for Allen's development, but he didn't do squat. Allen was the perfect physical specimen as a QB, just like Milton.

Processing is still really slow and his touch passing needs work but with the right OC that can cover things like that up he has a shot to be an NFL QB. You can't teach, size, arm strength and scrambling ability. He was always a better QB prospect than Richardson. 1 got over drafted and 1 was under drafted. Both were 3rd rounders at best.

I'd rather keep him one more year, let him hopefully ball out in pre-season and look for draft capital in 2026, which is a deeper draft. More good QB prospects in that draft but you can trade him after the pre-season and with the draft a year away you might get a 2nd for him.
Otherwise, he can be the backup, and you can run the same offense with him and Maye.

 

[Real fan 02]

Let's be honest, the only thing stopping JM3 getting to Canton is the bus fare.

Well canton, Mass does have MBTA shuttle service..

 

[40yrpatsfan]

Interesting results so far...

i think some wildly overestimate his value based on the strength of a game where the other team didn't play defense...

yeah but you can't un-see what he did that day. He was disciplined, accurate short and long, showed off his arm talent, showed off his mobility and ability to throw on the run, handled pressure. He's also 6'5 235 with a bazooka arm.

The question is simply this: if Milroe and Dart are the #3 & 4 college QB prospects and are estimated to go late first to mid 2nd round, doesn't Milton look more ready and promising than them? Plus has a year of pro experience under his belt, and at 25 is more mature? It doesn't even seem like a close call.

 

[Wax Frog]

TLAPFTJMIWADP (then laughed at Pats fans thinking Joe Milton is worth a draft pick)

 

[Pape]

yeah but you can't un-see what he did that day. He was disciplined, accurate short and long, showed off his arm talent, showed off his mobility and ability to throw on the run, handled pressure. He's also 6'5 235 with a bazooka arm.

You are correct. You cannot un-see it. But you can put it in it's proper perspective.

The question is simply this: if Milroe and Dart are the #3 & 4 college QB prospects and are estimated to go late first to mid 2nd round, doesn't Milton look more ready and promising than them? Plus has a year of pro experience under his belt, and at 25 is more mature? It doesn't even seem like a close call.

Unless a player is special, and if he were special, he would have been playing, I look at former draft picks like cars... Brand new & shiny, right from the draft they are worth X... drive 'em off the lot and they are worth X / 2

 

[yukon cornelius]

yeah but you can't un-see what he did that day. He was disciplined, accurate short and long, showed off his arm talent, showed off his mobility and ability to throw on the run, handled pressure. He's also 6'5 235 with a bazooka arm.

The question is simply this: if Milroe and Dart are the #3 & 4 college QB prospects and are estimated to go late first to mid 2nd round, doesn't Milton look more ready and promising than them? Plus has a year of pro experience under his belt, and at 25 is more mature? It doesn't even seem like a close call.

by the time the draft comes around, you just might see Dart as QB2 and going in the top 10......i think sanders is the 3 or 4......and yeah, this year I'd put Milton right in that mix at 3/4

Last year he was QB9 drafted.....in a 2024 re-draft, maybe he moves up to QB7, def up to QB 8, so I don't think he was all that underdrafted.....but this year is super weak

that being said, next year looks like a crap shoot but with as many as what, 10 QBs with potential for starter level talent?

Milton's value right now is on potential and impatient teams with QB needs........because I think there's only a small handful of potential long-term starters in the '24 draft......and even less with more long-term starter potential than Milton (which I still think is a reach.......but so are most of the '24 QBs)

 

[Username]

He's worth more to us as back up QB than a 4th - 7th round pick, where you're just rolling the dice.

But I'm not sure he's worth a 3rd round pick to anyone else.

 

[203Pat]

The Joe Milton hype seems so strange to me. He was available to all 32 teams roughly 5-6 times last April, and now he is supposedly worth a 3rd-round pick? Is this all because of one good half against the Bills’ backups in a meaningless game for both teams in Week 18? If a team wants a big, athletic quarterback project, why not just draft that Jefferson Kid from UCF or Donovan Smith from Houston in the mid- to late rounds?

 

[Real fan 02]

yeah but you can't un-see what he did that day. He was disciplined, accurate short and long, showed off his arm talent, showed off his mobility and ability to throw on the run, handled pressure. He's also 6'5 235 with a bazooka arm.

The question is simply this: if Milroe and Dart are the #3 & 4 college QB prospects and are estimated to go late first to mid 2nd round, doesn't Milton look more ready and promising than them? Plus has a year of pro experience under his belt, and at 25 is more mature? It doesn't even seem like a close call.

Agreed. Right on all accounts. I'd ask can we unsee the 5 weeks we had to watch Brissett play??..

 

[yukon cornelius]

The Joe Milton hype seems so strange to me. He was available to all 32 teams roughly 5-6 times last April, and now he is supposedly worth a 3rd-round pick? Is this all because of one good half against the Bills’ backups in a meaningless game for both teams in Week 18? If a team wants a big, athletic quarterback project, why not just draft that Jefferson Kid from UCF or Donovan Smith from Houston in the mid- to late rounds?

regardless of who he was playing against......his improvements in footwork and accuracy between camp and week 17 were pretty significant.......i think if you were to take the kid we saw in week 17 and slot him into this draft, he'd be no worse than QB than maybe a QB4.......ward to me is the 1, then you've got dart, and then I think you could slot milton right in with that mix of gabriel, sanders (who my gut says is going to be WAY overdrafted), milroe, ewers.......given a year of NFL experience, he might be above a few of them, although the loss of a year of rookie contract hurts a little.......but i don't think the "hype" is that far off simply because this class is so poor, and teams have very little patience with the position

 

[Real fan 02]

Exactly. QB is a different animal and teams often draft QBs higher than they should.

The thing about Milton is that he is just one year into his rookie contract and has shown real ability.

The Pats do not need to trade him, unless they get a really enticing offer. I would like to see what Josh might try and do with him with a few gadget plays.

No team needing a QB, who missed out on the top options, is going to let some team trade a 4th for Milton without making a countering offer.

Milton is too enticing to let another team get him cheap.

Competition is what will drive Milton’s value up.

Bingo! That's what I'm saying myself. Hold on to him. Let him continue to develop into an even bigger trade assest. Also we know the part of the game that we hate is injuries. If Drake should have to miss time for whatever reason having JM3 as a backup would be awesome. We have one if the best QB situations in the league right now. Imagine what he can do with Josh and his natural athletic ability.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

The Joe Milton hype seems so strange to me. He was available to all 32 teams roughly 5-6 times last April, and now he is supposedly worth a 3rd-round pick? Is this all because of one good half against the Bills’ backups in a meaningless game for both teams in Week 18? If a team wants a big, athletic quarterback project, why not just draft that Jefferson Kid from UCF or Donovan Smith from Houston in the mid- to late rounds?

You are assuming that there are 32 sets of rational actors in the NFL, when there were coaches/GMs who wondered if Andy Dalton could succeed because he's a redhead.

 

[NE_Zealot]

Said it before I’ll say it again, worth more to us as a backup.

 

[203Pat]

regardless of who he was playing against......his improvements in footwork and accuracy between camp and week 17 were pretty significant.......i think if you were to take the kid we saw in week 17 and slot him into this draft, he'd be no worse than QB than maybe a QB4.......ward to me is the 1, then you've got dart, and then I think you could slot milton right in with that mix of gabriel, sanders (who my gut says is going to be WAY overdrafted), milroe, ewers.......given a year of NFL experience, he might be above a few of them, although the loss of a year of rookie contract hurts a little.......but i don't think the "hype" is that far off simply because this class is so poor, and teams have very little patience with the position

This is definitely a lighter quarterback draft than last year by light-years, so I agree that Milton may have gone a round or two higher if he were in this draft instead of last year's. With that being said, there are guys like Milton in every draft, so I don’t think you really need to trade for him when you can just draft a very similar version.

 

[yukon cornelius]

This is definitely a lighter quarterback draft than last year by light-years, so I agree that Milton may have gone a round or two higher if he were in this draft instead of last year's. With that being said, there are guys like Milton in every draft, so I don’t think you really need to trade for him when you can just draft a very similar version.

Except he has shown the ability to improve in the NFL system.....not all, or even most, in his draft range show that ability

 

[yukon cornelius]

Said it before I’ll say it again, worth more to us as a backup.

This team is a long ways away from a high end backup QB being a necessity.....they need too many talent upgrades

 

[tuckeverlasting]

yeah...i'm a die hard, i voted a 1st. hang on to him unless we get a bag.

 

[The Gr8est]

I’m SO glad the Pats are not in dire need of a QB in THIS draft.