Maybe it's just because it's Pickett, but I'd be skeptical of guys that were average until they got the covid year then played really well. Pickett was a late rounder at best until his covid year. That would be my concern with some of these QBs
This was the guy that’s currently at Purdue. I like our chances if he’s visiting us after West Lafayette. Not sure we are taking 3 WRs though and we want the slot WR from FAU
When the CFP Committee cites your QBs completion percentage as justification for a top 4 ranking, I could see where someone goes off the deep end putting ridiculous emphasis on individual statistics. I’m going to at least put some of the blame on ESPN for this one.
I was just trying to give you the good news that you had one less competitor, but now I've venmo'd mike $7 to put him back on the board
Was probably our best OL last year, but that’s not saying much. I think he’s got potential to be solid, just not at UF
If feels like there is a lot more movement this year for everyone but clemson. It's gonna be so interesting to see which have dramatically good and terrible results
Ive honestly never heard anything about him. I assume he was just buried as a freshman in a deep unit.
He just never played. Kind of always thought he’d wind up at UCF, seemed to have trouble leaving Central Florida. Bet he’ll be good for you.
I don’t know that he’s coming home just people were excited he portaled after he teased us all through the recruiting cycle and stuck with y’all.
Destyn Hill came back from his mission in football shape and that all but spelled the end for his chances at early pt Was as excited about him as Hykeem p bummed
I've never seen any studies in the NFL on the subject so maybe it's an outlier compared to the others, but I think there's pretty clear data in the other three sports that draft age is legitimately relevant, at least when comparing players to their peers in those drafts. Baseball gets a bit wonky due to the HS/college combo and all the risks involved with HS kids, but when comparing HS to HS and college to college, it seems to matter.
One of the big reasons Bill Parcels drafted Drew Bledsoe over Rick Mirer was Bledsoe being almost 3 years younger.
This draft is going to be really interesting with the 5-6th year guys, and then also potentially someone like JJ McCarthy. There are six possible 1st rounders (Williams, Maye, Daniels, Penix, McCarthy and Nix). Compared to the others, McCarthy is... 1+ year younger than Williams 8 months younger than Maye 2.5 years younger than Penix 2 years younger than Daniels 3 years younger than Nix JJ doesn't turn 21 for another 2 weeks.
That was a different time tho. When they actually attempted to develop QBs. So much is put into winning while your QB is on a rookie cap. If he's closer to his ceiling as a rookie because of age - seems like a favorable thing. Picking the right QB seems like a crap shoot anyway
The 6th year player deal didn’t really sink in fully until I was watching ASU at UW and after a little 5 yard completion to Devin Culp the announcers mentioned that Culp and Penix were playing college football when the true freshman Sun Devil on the tackle was in…8th grade. Wild landscape.
Cats going hard after Tech WR Jerand Bradley with the Matt Wells connection. Committed to Boston College rn but sounds like we may flip him. Really need one very good WR and another halfway decent one to help Avery out