You don’t have to have the top pick in the draft get a ”franchise“ QB.
Year | No. | Round | Pick | Player | Name | Team | College |
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2022 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 20 | Kenny Pickett |
Year | No. | Round | Pick | Player | Name | Team | College |
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2020 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Joe Burrow | Bengals | Louisiana State |
| 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | Tua Tagovailoa | Dolphins | Alabama |
| 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | Justin Herbert | Chargers | Oregon |
| 4 | 1 | 26 | 26 | | | |
| 5 | 2 | 21 | 53 | Jalen Hurts | Eagles | Oklahoma |
Year | No. | Round | Pick | Player | Name | Team | College |
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2018 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Baker Mayfield | Browns | Oklahoma |
| 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | Sam Darnold | Jets | USC |
| 3 | 1 | 7 | 7 | Josh Allen | Bills | Wyoming |
5 | 1 | 32 | 32 | Lamar Jackson | Ravens | Louisville |
Year | No. | Round | Pick | Player | Name | Team | College |
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2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | Mitchell Trubisky | Bears | North Carolina |
| 2 | 1 | 10 | 10 | Patrick Mahomes | Chiefs | Texas Tech |
| 3 | 1 | 12 | 12 | Deshaun Watson | Texans | Clemson |
Ideally if you trade down this year you want to accomplish two things. 1.) get as many picks in the top 100 as possible. 2.) get a next years first. Three first round picks would of gotten you in range to draft any of the bolded QBs. Now go look at how many of the first QBs taken were bust. It’s more about being able to identify a QB whose traits fit what youre trying to do and getting them the right coaching. History tells you it’s a crapshoot drafting a QB even with the number one pick.
so If you don’t feel like one of these guys fits perfectly why not trade down and load this team up with as much young talent as possible?
Watson Mahomes is a comparison that’s close to home, I’m not sure if Mahomes is what he is if drafted by Bill O’Brien, I tend to think Watson maybe takes the same issues with him to KC, but maybe achieving true success on the field tempers his urges off it somewhat, who knows?
The situation is far more important than the draftees raw talent and I tend to believe that the Jamarcus Russell/Johnny Football characters are few and far between Vs the number of talented hardworking high pick QBs who lose their way in the dysfunction of the failing franchises who get first dibs on drafting them.
Im all for taking Demeco as the HC, I think he is a true leader, is running a disruptive D, and has access to a great coaching tree to fill out his staff.
I’m concerned whether Demeco tallies with Caserio as GM, totally different trees, is Caserio 100% there to do what Ryans needs from him or is there going to be dysfunction there?
I see a D that needs to be creating some pressure up front, fill out its LB corps, and have better coaching for its young DBs.
The O is going to need a WR and more consistency along the OL, another RB to take the pressure off Pierce.
Those things are more important than dropping a QB into the fray straight away.
Id love to think we could trade back to somewhere late top 10 maybe, pick up extra high picks in the future as well as quality picksthis draft to fill some of these other holes. Take another stop gap QB with upside for this year, even let Mills battle it out in camp, it might not be pretty but you’ve got to fix the fundamentals before you drop the most important player on the team in there.