Cam Ward projected #1 to Titans...

[Coug90]

I'm not sure it will ever happen, but I feel like teams would be better off treating QBs like RBs in the draft, less because the difference between a second rounder and a seventh rounder is so miniscule but more because it's hard to predict which quarterbacks will actually end up being worth the pick. Get the closest thing you can to a sure thing at an impact position (as Biggs noted) or get a guy at a position of need that will save some $ that would have otherwise been spent on a free agent pickup with less upside. Incubate quarterbacks, or let other guys get fired trying to do it, and then either promote a youngster that wins the job outright or go out and spend the free agent savings on a proven guy. Even if a guy comes in and does a Marino/Mahomes, then you have to hollow out the roster in a different spot to pay that guy on his second contract.

Problem is your franchise can be in the toilet for a decade if you don’t have a franchise QB. You can have a below average back and still win. It’s a supply issue and really good QBs are not a dime a dozen like RBs. I’m not sure if this will ever change unless the game fundamentally changes which I don’t see.

As a broncos fan I’ve watched them fail at every possible scenario in finding a QB since Manning. Round 1, later rounds, trading for a FA. Then they draft a guy at 12 who most experts had as a 2nd rounder/career backup and looks like he’s a stud.

In a lot of ways the position is a crapshoot and I think just as dependenr on what is around the QB as the tools the QB himself has. Even the best talents with mental toughness can be ruined if thrown into the NFL fire with a garbage OLine.

 

[95coug]

Problem is your franchise can be in the toilet for a decade if you don’t have a franchise QB. You can have a below average back and still win. It’s a supply issue and really good QBs are not a dime a dozen like RBs. I’m not sure if this will ever change unless the game fundamentally changes which I don’t see.

As a broncos fan I’ve watched them fail at every possible scenario in finding a QB since Manning. Round 1, later rounds, trading for a FA. Then they draft a guy at 12 who most experts had as a 2nd rounder/career backup and looks like he’s a stud.

In a lot of ways the position is a crapshoot and I think just as dependenr on what is around the QB as the tools the QB himself has. Even the best talents with mental toughness can be ruined if thrown into the NFL fire with a garbage OLine.

Case in point: Trevor Lawrence. He was supposed to be a generational talent, but sitting in JAX, he’s got little to show for it

 

[etowncoug]

Tennessee always seems to have a good pick and has been looking for a QB for over a decade despite early picks used on Locker and Mariota.