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Originally Posted by HotCarl
I don't think there is a QB in this draft who would be a top 10 pick most years.
Some years there are good QB classes. Some years there are David Carr / Joey Harrington classes.
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You're looking at it completely wrong. It doesn't really matter that Mel Kiper and Todd McShay think there's no quarterback in this draft who's worth a top 10 pick or a #1 overall pick. I guarantee you there is one. The trick is to figure out who it is, and then to draft him. When you have the #1 overall pick, no team can take him away from you. That's a rare luxury.
The franchise quarterbacks listed below weren't considered good enough to be top 10 picks when they came out of college:
Brady - 6th round
Flacco - 18th overall
Roethlisberger - 11th overall
Aaron Rodgers -24th overall
Drew Brees - 32nd overall
Colin Kaepernick - 2nd round (36th overall)
Russell Wilson - 3rd round (75th overall)
Are you going to tell me that guys like Brady, Roethlisberger and Rogers weren't REALLY worth a #1 overall pick when they came out?
The fact that they were drafted so low doesn't mean they weren't good enough to be a top 10 pick. All it means is that the evaluation process is very imprecise and it's difficult to get it exactly right.
A team that drafted any of the guys listed above would NOT have wasted its #1 overall pick, no matter what guys like Kiper and McShay think.
That's the point. It's up to John Dorsey and Andy Reid to figure out who the best quarterback is in this draft, and then DRAFT HIM. It doesn't matter that you have to use the #1 overall pick to get him.