SoFFacet

Let's just review how we got here. This board has apparently been permeated with poor draft "analysis" from moronic pundits, the result being that people such as yourself believe in laughable things such as that Allen is any good. You also believe yourself to be a member of some majority or consensus. All hilariously wrong. The vast majority of rational analysts looking at the draft class through an objective lens and using empirical data think that Mayfield is top-3 if not #1, and Allen will bust. Obviously mentally slow = on-field processing speed. You can't explain that away with whatever word salad you just tried to use. I can't believe you even uttered the word wonderlic, a test everyone knows is non-predictive of NFL success and people only ever bring up when their guy does well on it. No offense but you come across as a very pompous individual who is ignorant of his own ignorance.

Of course he will probably be a top-10 pick. He doesn't deserve that but some idiot team will pick him there. Inaccurate is not a mischaracterization at all. He is inaccurate, period. He is also mentally slow. This is a documented fact. I seriously doubt that anyone on this board could debunk anything. Everything you've said is laughably wrong. Dunning Kruger.

As I said, Ledyard is low on Mayfield, who is the QB1 according to most informed analysts.

Allen is the laughingstock of the Draft Analyst community. Sorry if that hasn't permeated this forum as much as the know-nothing ESPN pundits etc.

13 is low for QB1.

Very few people think he'll be any good. He's inaccurate and slow. Almost nobody with his stats & pedigree has ever been successful in the NFL.

13th is pretty low for Mayfield. And he's only low on Allen compared to moron pundits like Kiper. Most people think Allen sucks. Guice over Barkley is pretty bold. Jones in the 1st round is just unconscionable, though.

Oh, you're one of those people who thinks that Lamar is comparable to Tyrod. I see. But anyway, that sequence of events is far from forced. Any of those teams could deviate, and Cleveland could trade #4 as well. As a matter of fact, Cleveland taking Allen would do nothing but help the odds that a good QB is left for us.

Why would we care if Cleveland takes a UDFA-level guy 1st overall?

False.

No.

Mayfield is by far the best QB in the class.

Based on what?

You can't !@#$ around with QB. If you are willing to take him at 22 you have to take him at 12. That's just how the league and the draft work now.

I'd say we got relatively unlucky with the Darby trade so far. As far as the range of possible outcomes go, the Eagles pick being #96 and Matthews being immediately & constantly injured were fairly unlikely. On paper this is a bit of an L, but not a big one. This is Darby's 4th year, so he's on the verge of leaving and and/or being paid significant money. Shipping out players from the old regime that they didn't intend to pay has been their chief operating principle.