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Ex-NFL GM thinks all three top QB prospects in draft have chance to be stars originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
The New England Patriots are not only lucky to own the No. 3 pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, they are fortunate to have a very high pick in a year where multiple quarterbacks are seen as potential franchise players.
It could be worse. If you needed a quarterback in the 2013 NFL Draft, you were in trouble. Geno Smith was the only good quarterback from that class, and he didn’t become a star until much later in his career.
The 2024 class could have as many as five quarterbacks taken in Round 1, with USC’s Caleb Williams, UNC’s Drake Maye, and LSU’s Jayden Daniels seen as the clear upper-tier of prospects at the position. Williams and Daniels are Heisman Trophy winners, while Maye starred in the ACC over the last two seasons.
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Our Patriots insider Phil Perry is at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis this week, where he is talking to people from around the league about the 2024 quarterback class, among other topics.
“A former NFL general manager told me, listen, all three of these guys at the top — Williams, Maye, Daniels — all have different strengths and weaknesses,” Perry said on the latest episode of the Next Pats Podcast.
“They all have their weaknesses, and if you get scared off by them, he would get it. That’s how he described it to me. But this former GM says they also all have a chance to be stars, and you don’t often have that opportunity with the No. 3 overall pick. And so, at least for him, he’s expecting the Patriots to take a quarterback at No. 3 overall.”
The Patriots haven’t had a top-three pick since they selected quarterback Drew Bledsoe at No. 1 overall in 1993.
And if you look at the best quarterbacks in the league, most of them were drafted in the first round. There are some exceptions, of course,…
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Publish date : 2024-02-28 23:51:33
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