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Kelley Ford's 2024-2025 NFL QB Draft Thoughts · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  When you look at this NFL draft, and I just I know, we
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  haven't really, you know, talked a whole lot about it, because it's
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  you know, we're just now to that point and you start looking at some
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  of these projections of quarterbacks and you know, I'm looking just let's say,
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  right, let me find that in the stat deck. You know, I'm
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  just right here now on on three dot com And this is courtesy of CBO
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  Sports. They say up to five quarterbacks can go in the first round.
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  And I don't know how much work you've had a chance to do on this
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  yet, but when you look at Caleb Williams, uh Jaden Daniels and I'm
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  just going through the list here, Drake, may let me find the others
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  that they have as possible first round guys, go down, chat to be,
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  got to be, got to be, JJ McCarthy, maybe Michael Pennant.
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  Yeah, you got McCarthy and then you've got Pinnis. Yeah. So
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  do you think the that there are first five, you know, off the
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  cuff, ten thousand foot we're gonna fly right over the NFL for a minute.
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  Five quarterbacks that are worthy of first round picks. I do not personally
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  Jake, And admittedly this is not my area of expertise. I do the
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  work in college football, as you know college basketball. I don't do a
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  lot of projecting in the NFL or a lot of NFL analytic work. That
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  space is even more saturated. That market is so. But I don't think
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  there are five quarterbacks worthy of being in the first draft of the first round.
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  But because of the importance that the quarterback position holds in football and then
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  the NFL in particular, your teams are always reaching for quarterbacks and when they
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  hit, their praise for it and they look smart and it's great. When
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  they fail, people get fired, gms and coaches get fired. So it's
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  such an important position. We know that I would not be surprised if five
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  or more quarterbacks go in the first round, just because of the premium of
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  that position. But no, I do not think, you know, top
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  thirty two talent wise five of those spots are held by quarterbacks in this year's
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  draft class. Personally,