Who’s everyone’s QB1 next year coming out of the draft. Thought it would be cool to see this post this time next year and see who the real couch GMs are. I think Penix is the best QB in college right now but his age has most people concerned and he’s had his share of injuries. Caleb Williams was most people’s QB1 until a couple weeks ago, then I think most people fell in love with Maye. But the past 3 weeks he’s looked bad against weak ACC defenses. Right now everyone is raving about Jayden Daniel’s TD to INT ratio and comparing him to Burrow with Joe having much better WRs. Who cares where we might draft if we had the 1st pick and didn’t have to sell the farm to get it who are you pounding the table for? I have to say Daniels he’s done great this year and he could be the next great Mobile QB.
Obviously college is pretty high variance and I haven’t watched much of these top QBs this year, so maybe I caught him at a bad time - but Penix looked awful this past weekend against a pretty mediocre team in the Cougars. He didn’t look particularly fluid, quick, athletic, or even just elusive in the pocket. His throwing motion hurt my eyes and my shoulder to watch. His accuracy was, generously, mediocre. Combine that with being one of the older QBs in the draft and an injury history most NFL QBs won’t even rack up in an entire career, yeah I would put him very low on my list.