Thanks to these guys, I became aware of one Patrick Mahomes, who should enter this year's draft if he is sane.
This guy accounted for over 750 yards in one game. He set records all over the place with multiple five touchdown games. Mel Kiper ranks him second, behind Mitch Trubisky. Walter Football and others think he'd be the fifth best quarterback in this draft.
I haven't heard much detail about what's right or wrong with him, but do know his arm, size, and mobility are all fine.
40 tds, 10 picks, 65%, all pretty decent, but he runs an air raid system. Nobody has any idea if he can read a defense or change a play. And he looks a little like Colon Kaperdick. I don't judge a book by it's cover, but it does show you that for all we know, he could be mentally impaired too.
Kiper has to have reasons to rank Mahomes this high. He must think the kid can spell his name right, as well as run and throw.
He has been compared to Dak Prescott, but that's really optimistic. Dak played in a much more advanced system, in fact similar to the one he runs in Dallas. His ability to read and call plays wasn't a projection: they had it on film.
No, Dak just went out and got a dui DURING the combine. I'm kind of sick of political correctness. A whole lot of 21 year olds get dui's. You can have a couple beers, not do a damn thing wrong, and get nailed anyway. It doesn't mean anything. For Prescott, it might as well have been domestic violence. It's rediculous, and if that's why Hue and company chose Kessler over him, shame on them.
However, it's no longer true that quarterbacks picked first or second overall do that much better than other guys. Look at Prescott, Derrick Carr, Teddy Bridgewater. Let's hope Mitch Trubisky gets busted for something!
I'm naturally hoping that Hue Jackson, Berry, the scouting staff, and front office decide that they can draft a quarterback a little later, so they can go best availble.
But the mock drafts that expect them to skip a quarterback first overall based on their long one-draft history are pretty silly. Again, if Trubisky is rated perhaps the fifth or sixth best player overall on their own board, they should "overdraft" him there anyway.
How is the Wentz trade looking now? A whole lot better. Everybody was laughing at Paul DePodesta saying that the Browns didn't think he was a top twenty quarterback after he lit up the Browns. Well? In fact I think Cody Kessler is ahead of him.
Not that things will stay that way---Wentz will come back. Not that they're perfect---they could have had Prescott.
I'm trying to figure out how these guys compare to last year's guys. Mahones compares to Paxton Lynch. Trubisky is harder to nail down. He has Goff-like accuracy, Prescott size, and Wentz arm and experience.
Really, he is a bigger, stronger, less experienced Cody Kessler who hopefully will not acquire a taste for pig skin in the NFL.
He remains the front runner for first overall on my board. For what it's worth. Which is literally two cents.
This I do know: 1: Accuracy. 2: Anticipation. 3: Football intelligence. 4: Everything else. I have a hunch Hue will like him, a lot.
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