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Originally Posted by Chico23231
Tripp you gettin a prospect rankings list together? post it when/if you do. thanks
My 3 top QBs: 1.Barkley 2. Tyler Wilson 3. Geno Smith
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Yeah. I've watched most of the prospects I'm going to watch, I've just been lazy about it.
I don't really see this as a weak QB class, at all. Geno Smith will go top ten this year, and would go top ten pretty much any year he came out. He's clearly a better prospect than Locker/Gabbert/Ponder/Mallet (I would have rated him above Newton as well, but I ended up being off on Newton). Barkley is
probably going in the top ten as well. And if he goes seven/eight/nine, some team (likely one picking at the top) is going to maneuver and try to get Nassib in the 13-19 neighborhood of the first round.
So those three will go right away. My favorite of the "best of the rest" is Tyler Bray, but I think a draft day fall might actually work in his benefit. Bray was the first QB I studied, and my reaction right after was Bray was the best player -- player, not quarterback -- in the entire draft. I've backed off that position substantially, not because I've seen evidence to make me believe that's not the case, but because I was doing WAY too much justifying of a high grade on a player who is going to be a late riser, at best. Kind of like Kellen Moore last year. At this point, if you can get Bray late in the first round or early in the second, I would, but there's no reason to take him with a top ten pick: he doesn't have the intangibles the other three guys do (and he's really not mobile at all, in an era where mobility is so important to development of the QB), so the market for him won't be as fierce.
The rest of the class is mediocre. I like Sean Renfree (Duke), Zac Dysert (Miami) and Marquise Gray (Minnesota) as backup types with some trade value in the league down the road. I think EJ Manuel can be a system guy in the NFL, but he's not going to rise as sharply as some people think (late 2 or early 3 at best). I think Tyler Wilson and Sean Glennon are going to struggle, a lot. I still have no idea what on earth to think of Landry Jones. If Jones could demonstrate just one clear skill outside of his arm, he'd go high in this draft...I'm just not sure he has it. I think Collin Klein should probably play tight end, although you can make your case that backup quarterback-who-will-never-play is the single most coveted position in sports. I think Jordan Rodgers probably shouldn't be drafted.
I haven't yet seen Matt Scott play (I'm not sure I saw Arizona play at all last year), but I hear he's intriguing.