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Rob Rang
NFL Draft Analyst
The 2024 NFL Draft featured a record six quarterbacks among the first 12 picks, yet the never-ending search for talent at the position remains.
Entering this year’s college football season, several signal-callers — like Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders, Texas’ Quinn Ewers and Georgia’s Carson Beck — had already gained significant traction with NFL scouts. Through the first month of the season, they remain among the top prospects at the position.
But if recent NFL draft history has proven anything, it is that we should expect there to be a few quarterbacks to seemingly come out of nowhere to join the preseason favorites as legitimate early round candidates.
With the season just beginning, here are some rising draft-eligible quarterbacks (listed alphabetically) already generating buzz among NFL scouts.
Boasting an ideal blend of size, arm strength and an aversion to interceptions — he began his career by setting an NCAA record with zero picks among his first 311 passes — Allar is an easy choice to begin this list. He enters Week 3 with a sterling 34/3 touchdown to interception ratio over the first 25 games of his career. He has also greatly improved his completion rate in 2024, sitting at 64.9% despite the depth of his passes jumping to a career-high 11.4 yards per attempt.
There is no denying that Allar’s production is influenced by Penn State’s scheme, but Allar’s traits are undeniable. A year ago, some thought I was crazy for suggesting that Michigan’s JJ McCarthy might be the first Wolverines’ quarterback to be drafted in the first round since his then-head coach Jim Harbaugh (Chicago Bears, 1987). Penn State hasn’t produced a first round signal-caller since Kerry Collins (Carolina Panthers, 1995), but the prototypically-built Allar flashes that kind of upside.
Drew Allar has an undeniable blend of size, arm strength and an aversion to interceptions that make him a top NFL…
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