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Knowing Arians likes his QBs big with big arms, it makes sense that he'd like this class so much. Even beyond Rosen, Darnold, Allen, and Lamar who all have the arm that Arians covets, you have Day 2/3 guys like Mike White, Chase Litton, and Kurt Benkert that all fit the mold Arians would look for. I think it's a really talented class overall, but there's a pretty massive dropoff after the top 5 (Rosen, Darnold, Allen, Mayfield, Lamar in whatever order you like). I personally have Lauletta #6 and then another large dropoff from him to #7, but point being, it's a great class at the top and an interesting class at the bottom but there's basically no middle-class. 5 QBs being deserving of going in the 1st round alone makes this a great QB class.

Feels like he might be forced to retire at this point to be honest.

It probably doesn't mean anything, but apparently Colin Cowherd said on his radio show that he's being told Kirk Cousins is close to a deal with the Broncos (yes I know he's under contract for another month still).

NFLPA would probably never get on board with limiting how much their stars are paid.

Peterman is what the Practice Squad was invented for.

Tampa?

Question is, how confident are you that Keenum will give you similar production? I'd personally be scared shitless to sign Keenum anywhere near what I think he'll get this offseason.

If Minnesota shows interest, that's where he should go. I'm not sure they will though, in which case I'd probably go to Cleveland if I were in his position.

Could be that he has more film to get through on some of the bigger guys whereas the smaller school guys he felt comfortable knocking out after seeing a couple games.

It appears that it's still under construction. For example, he bumped Lamar down from a 6.3 (11th best in the class) to a 6.0 today (19th best and now behind Rosen).

Bradford is the correct choice here. The cost to acquire Smith makes Bradford the easy choice IMO.

This. If he gets cut, I'd absolutely go after him. But I'm not interested in Trading a Day 1 or Day 2 pick for him to be a stop gap QB.

I don't foresee Cousins being a Bill, but looking at the other options: Denver: About the same cap space as Buffalo (for now...sounds like they plan to release Aqib Talib and possibly Demaryius or Sanders), I think Denver is a low-key bad situation though; old team that's rumored to be cutting one of the few weapons Cousins would have to throw to Arizona: Nowhere near the cap space needed to sign him Washington: Definitely have the cap space. Is their relationship too fractured at this point though? Not to mention that's another team with poor weapons around him and a pretty bad defense NYJ: Seems like a good fit if the Jets are interested; I've seen rumors stating that the Jets plan to bypass free agency and focus on the draft to address the QB position though. But hypothetically speaking, they have a lot of cap space, a pretty talented defense, and a couple promising WRs. They'll need all of the cap space they have to fill other holes though. Cleveland: Probably unlikely due to their reputation, but I think it's his best option honestly. $111 million in cap space, an extremely talented WR in Gordon, a promising young TE in Njoku, a great receiving RB (which Cousins loves) in Duke, a talented but injury prone WR in Coleman, a good O-Line, and a pretty solid defense (they really just need an upgrade in the LB core and maybe one corner). Sign Cousins, take Barkley and Fitzpatrick/Edmunds/Roquon, probably sign one of the solid WRs in free agency and that team could be pretty good pretty quickly IMO.

Higher than Rosen as well. The guys at WalterFootball had it that way for awhile but moved him down in the past month or so. Otherwise yeah, I think he’s the only one. I personally agree with him though.

The interesting one for me is against Hawaii. His stat line is horrific but his WRs were so bad in that game. I thought he played at least okay in that game despite the horrid stat line.

Tanner Lee has good arm strength. That's it though. His footwork makes me want to cry and his accuracy would have you begging to bring EJ Manuel back.

Wow, I didn't think any of the media draft guys would agree with me on Rosen. I'm honestly shocked to see Zierlein have him this low.

I wouldn't use this for the scouting reports at all; strictly for game film.

There's still some missing prospects; he hasn't had a chance to publish a grade on everyone yet. I'm certain Rosen will be one of the top 3 (I'm guessing 1st) QBs once he's added in.

http://www.nfl.com/draft/2018/tracker#dt-tabs:dt-by-grade The scouting reports are always a nice read. There are some guys that are missing at the moment (off the top of my head, I noticed Rosen and Ronald Jones aren't included yet), but for now, their big board is: 1. Saquon Barkley 2. Quenton Nelson 3. Tremaine Edmunds 4. Bradley Chubb 5. Sam Darnold 6. Calvin Ridley 7. Da'Ron Payne 8. Roquon Smith 9. Vita Vea 10. Minkah Fitzpatrick And so far, the QBs are graded, in order (projected draft range in parentheses): 1. Darnold (top 3) 2. Lamar (1st round) 3. Mayfield (1st round) 4. Allen (1st round) 5. Falk (3rd-4th) 6. Rudolph (2nd-3rd, has the same grade as Falk but higher projection) 7. Mike White (6th-7th) 8. Riley Ferguson (5th-6th, don't ask how he has a lower grade but higher projection compared to White) 9. Kurt Benkert (6th-7th) 10. Jeremiah Briscoe (7th-Undrafted)

For those that are interested, I figured I'd post the link to this great Google Doc. As you'll see when you click the link, positions are listed at the top. If, for example, you click "QB", it'll take you to a list of roughly 60 QB prospects (anyone you'd care about is in the left-most column). Click on "Tape" next to the name of the guy you want to watch and it'll take you to a page for that specific prospect. Once you're there, you'll see a line for "Game Tape" with links to YouTube videos of the specific prospect. Some prospects have more tape than others as you can imagine, but you can pretty much find a decent amount of tape on any prospect you'd ever want to research. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13RgfxMu4CW0NKMZebZ88cgg7b7MlszjfzXxEeId7Y34/htmlview#

Darnold has more INTs under pressure this season than Mayfield, Rosen, and Lamar Jackson combined. Of all the QBs likely to be drafted this year, only Allen and Benkert had a lower passer rating under pressure.

The A&M game is riddled with poor decisions and bad throws too. I still think he’s worthy of being a first round pick, and he’s roughly the same tier as the other top QBs, but he’s my least favorite of the 5.

Obviously it’s all highlights, but I’d mention this guy has posted a video like this for all the top QB prospects. Pretty cool to watch.

I didn’t read it, but I’ve seen enough people talking about it to get the gist. Before this week, I thought he made a lot of sense for the Patriots and Falcons in particular so it doesn’t surprise me.