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Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Crompton's an interesting choice. I remember him being a guy they seriously considered in the later rounds of the 2010 draft

There's a trend with Shanahan where he seems to think that spending a high pick on a quarterback is not necessary because there's an abundance of undeveloped quarterbacks out there with high-round skill sets he can get basically for free. The reasoning can essentially be summed up as "why spend a first round pick on an undeveloped Blaine Gabbert if I can get an undeveloped Jonathan Crompton for free?"

I don't know if he's right or wrong (I suspect his guess is correct), but we're a year in now without McNabb, and Rex Grossman's still the starter, which at least suggests that Mike Shanahan hasn't quite discovered how to take an unwanted quarterback with a good skill set and make him a franchise level player.

I think he's on to something, but if John Beck is the best example of an unwanted player who fits what Shanahan is trying to do, I think it's difficult to believe to think Shanahan is close to finding an elite quarterback in the trash heap. And I think to a degree, both Mike and Kyle Shanahan expected to be further along at the QB position right now, even if no one else in the world did.