I remember Caleb Williams was ranked really high, but yeah, nobody would have thought Daniels would be the #2 QB taken. Maye looked good, but he regressed and is living off of the previous year's stats.Beef Supreme wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:44 amQuinn Ewers is probably QB2 next year. I scouted him a lot this past year because I thought he’d declare for this draft. I’d put him at QB6 or 7 if he was in this draft.cunningham wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 9:28 am What if we end up having a top 1 or 2 pick after this season? That would make trading next year's first pick for #4 this year a lot.
Are the quarterbacks that bad for next year? Is this year's crop being overhyped?
I think we have a trade worked out with the Pats for the #3 pick. They will get both our firsts, next year's first, and two 3rd rounders from next year.
We will take Maye.
If that happens I will go out and buy some lottery tickets. Except I think the majority here are hoping for this to happen.
The Pats don't have the weapons that the Vikings do. They need a lot and are building, so taking a ton of extra firsts lets them reload. They could take a Nix, Penix Jr, etc. McCarthy would probably be there at #11 for them anyway. It is a huge win for them to not take Maye, which many reports have said they are not totally sold on.
On the Pats website there are a few scenarios where they trade with us:
https://www.patriots.com/news/2024-patr ... ft-tracker
The top guy, Georgia's Carson Beck, would probably be QB 5 this year.
I don’t much like Shadeur Sanders at all. Zero interest right now.
There are other names to watch like Miami’s Cam Ward and Penn St.’s Drew Allar, but none of them seem like first round picks right now to me.
That can change, of course. Nobody had Jayden Daniels as a top prospect at this time last year, so the science is far from exact. But that’s how it looks now, in my opinion.
I don't think we will be picking super high next year, but if Darnold pulls a Dobbs and starts to look terrible and a rookie is out there too soon we might lost a lot of games.
I appreciate the insight as I don't follow college football enough. I love this year because I have been crying for us to take a quarterback in round 1 forever. Rick did suck at that though.