So You Wanna Draft A QB…
With the draft a week and a few days away, we have been deep into the season of "let's talk ourselves into QBs with red flags, but we really want to fix our QB problem, so let's only look at the good stuff". So, here's our "These QBs might actually suck" list, since most everyone wants to project ceiling and happy fun thoughts and we need balance. This is WFNY. We know nobody and nothing work out all the time. And before you come flame us on socials, yes, these are purposefully negative on these players.
Cam Ward -- he was absolutely phenomenal from end of September through now. But, well, how much was it him really taking The Leap and how much was it Miami's system? He is the same guy who had fickle feet and uneven games before this year (or even early September). Also, he’s likely locked in to the No. 1 overall in Tennessee, so he ain’t going nowhere…wait is that right grammar?
Shedeur Sanders -- high floor is great & if this was 2002, he might be the QB1 because he's much more pocket-oriented than the other guys. But, well, it's not. It's 2025, being able to adapt and run off script is important in the NFL. Not to mention his intermediate passing looks as mediocre as his overall physical traits and his offense was so rudimentary it was almost "wait for Hunter to get open and throw him the ball even if he isn't". Yeah, that high floor has a low ceiling and there's a good chance he's a Darnold who makes his 2nd or 3rd team happy, not you.
Jaxson Dart -- Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin's system makes things really simple and dumb for QBs to the point you can say he's years behind everybody else in development. Toolsy and ballsy only get you so far in the NFL. Can he actually read a defense? Who’s to say.
Jalen Milroe -- Look like Tarzan, throw like Tarzan... but like Tarzan never had to throw consistently accurately. He is such a mess when it comes to reads and footwork that you never know where that ball is going to go. I thought y'all were tired of Jameis Winston? And, that's if he develops.
Tyler Shough -- Such an old college kid that I want to "thank him for his service" or ask him how his missionary stint went. The injury list is as long as a Walgreen's receipt & his downfield passing looks like that kid you put in right field because you wanted to hide him but now he's gotta make the throw to home plate. And, for a seven-year player... why doesn't he go through progressions?
Quinn Ewers -- half of his own fanbase hates him for blocking the inevitable in Manning... and his injury list isn't as long as Shough but that might just be because he spent a year on the Buckeyes bench and then only two more in school. Smaller QB with an OK-ish arm who tends to get hurt ... Is that your franchise guy?
Will Howard -- that's national champion Will Howard to you and it had nothing to do with the greatest set of skill players around him of any team in recent memory. You can ignore the inconsistent play and poor decision making and just point to the ball sneaking by defenders in those last two games where it really mattered. Ignore the easy passes he missed from his lack of ability to diagnose the defense and just focus that the Buckeyes won the games. Except you know, The Game, where he didn't have the gumption to throw it to his best weapons because of tight defense. The NFL doesn't have tight defense, right?
Kyle McCord -- You read Ewers and Howard above ... this is the guy who couldn't beat either one of them out and had to go where there is so much snow that they have to play football indoors to keep his career alive. I mean, Syracuse was good when Jim Brown played there, that wasn't that long ago, right?