-VikingsTw- wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:08 pm
D_H wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:50 pm
-VikingsTw- wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:43 pm
Nah, he's really impressive in meetings and has tremendous leadership qualities, competitiveness and work ethic. It's not rocket science. Teams like that stuff because most all the great ones had those qualities.
However I do agree to an extent that his overall tape dos not show a finished product or guy that's ready IMO.
It's all about the projection and where this kids gonna be when he's 24 or 25. That's what your paying for.
Ponder was impressive at meetings. Lol it means NOTHING.
Come on man you know ball better than that buddy you have always been a knowledgeable fan. I mean Mlhouse compared him to Josh Allen that's how nuts this has become! Lol
Go pull up the Bowling Green tape it is horrific to say the least.
It's not just the meetings its actually getting to be around him up close and personal. Everything that goes with that. His stock has risen and he'll go way higher than anticipated.
Minn, Denver, NY, LV... someone will take him in the first. But you never know, at this point it would be a shocker if he made it out the top 15.
Again, we never know. Last year at the end of the year, Will Levis was thought of as a 2nd round pick. The "process" got him all hyped up to the top of the draft on mocks and twitter was ablaze with speculation as to where he would go. He ended up back in the 2nd round.
That's not to say that history will necessarily repeat itself. Levis is not McCarthy. But it is to say that teams have their own evaluations of these guys and that evaluation often differs from that of the Froobs and the Twitterverse. Meaning, we're all sure that McCarthy will go in the top-5 now, but we don't know. We all could be wrong. He could go in the middle of the first round. He could fall all the way down to the 2nd round. Or he could go 2 overall and Maye could slide. None of us know.
Now, in this particular case, I don't know if the hype around Levis was as connected to evaluators of repute like McCarthy is this year. It may have been more fluff stuff and there's more meat this year with JJ. That could be. But the point remains: We don't know.
When in doubt, I tend to revert back to what I thought at the end of the actual season. And Maye was #2 with a bullet IMHO at that time. JJ was a wildcard. I didn't have him squarely in round 2 or anything, but I thought there was enough uncertainty about him to at least scare teams off in the top-10. And all we've seen since then are workouts in shorts.
Anyway, I will continue to speculate because it's fun. I hope others do too because the more in the conversation, the better. But just about everyone was dead wrong about Levis last year. So, remember that as we move on this year.