NFL Draft Open Thread
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Let us traumatize two relevant NCAA fanbases about a QB who is likely to be off the board in the top 4:
Levis is the worst consensus first-round quarterback prospect I have evaluated since Jake Locker. He is like Daniel Jones with less quickness and no situational awareness, or a more erratic Mitch Trubisky, or a less gifted Carson Wentz.
Levis is well-built, gets very good velocity on short throws, sometimes displays a strong deep arm, has a quick release, shows some ability to reset and find secondary targets, and is willing to throw his body around to get a first down. By all accounts, he has all the leadership traits and intangibles a coach could ask for.
And now, let’s take a deep breath and plow through the negatives.
Levis underthrows lots of deep passes; many of his “highlight reel” completions are underthrown balls that receivers made plays on. His placement on even routine throws is almost random. He fires fastballs behind or over his targets. He threw interceptions on tunnel screens and goal-line flat routes (staring down his receiver) in 2022. He takes too many sacks. He’s loose with the ball when about to get sacked. He tries to Wentz the ball into the sky sometimes while getting sacked. He’s in Joe Burrow’s C+ tier class as a scrambler but appears to think he is Josh Allen.
Stacked atop his scant positives against this steaming heap of negatives is all the usual “insiders just LURVE Levis” secret sauce about poise, football IQ, and magical All American Lad-itude. Kentucky’s receiver corps was ordinary-at-best, and their schedule was brutal, so there’s lots of argument-from-absence he’d be great with weapons if he wasn’t facing Georgia illogic at work. Other than that, the hype around Levis is a mystery. Maybe insiders are now telling themselves that every prospect who just sprays footballs all over the good lord’s creation but sometimes completes a bomb is secretly Josh Allen.
Josh Allen is now going to be used as a justification for investing large amounts of draft capital in highly inaccurate college QBs. W/r to Anthony Richardson, who seems to share Allen’s freakish athletic traits, I might even buy it. But Levis just seems like a generic “guy who looks like a model QB except when he’s playing the position,” and if I understand correctly Farley is finding Levis climbing up the mock drafts as surreal as I found it with Locker.
…Have to give the teams credit here. Young and Stroud seem obviously like the two best prospects, and if you want to go tools/high upside Richardson is the obvious call over Levis.