PFF's Top 10 2024 QB Draft Prospects--and you won't believe who is at #7
JJ is at #8. Probably a good ranking for him. But what has the guy at #7 done to even be in the Top 10? Maybe that he can throw it 73 yards, and the NFL likes a strong armed QB? IDK. Do you?
Him being at #7 has got to be based solely on "upside".
Link to their views on each of the 10: https://www.on3.com/news/nfl-draft-2024-pff-ranks-top-10-quarterbacks-caleb-williams-drake-maye/
Shedeur Sanders should probably be in the Top 10. Certainly he's better than Joe Milton. One scouting site does have him there at #6. The same site has JJ at #9.
This is their scouting report on him. They have a concern about him that I have, protecting the ball. But he has this season to improve on everything and move up as a Draft prospect.
Anyway, back to Joe Milton. Is he going to be THAT good? Maybe Josh Heupel is a QB whisperer.
I remember him playing in 2020 and he sucked, he gave Mc Namara a chance to get the starting role and Cade took it, moving the chains along. I hope Milton whatever he earns but i don't miss his horrible inaccurate passes, a strong arm is not all a QB needs to succed.
I remember cade the great as well
Last 6 games:
54/87 614 yds, 2 td, 5 ints
Cade's UFR for the his final start at Michigan. He put up a 9-18, 136yd, 1 td stat line against the same Colorado St team that lost 41-10 to Sacramento St. 61 of those yards were on a wr screen to Roman Wilson two yards behind the line of scrimmage. He was effectively 8-17 for 75 yards with a bunch of bad throws and missed receivers.
Joe:
Previous start: Orange Bowl MVP
Last 7 games:
53/81, 971 yards, 10 tds, 0 ints
Joe's UFR for Indiana game encapsulated everything.
His line came into the season with a combined 2 starts. Mayfield was hurt. Ronnie Bell was his top receiver. Next four wide receivers entered the season with a combined 27 career receptions.
We hear a ton about the overthrows. People obviously did not actually watch him this year. He was insane and hitting his receivers in stride. He did it against every team be played including Clemson without his top two receivers.
Milton over McCarthy is a joke, but how about EWERS over him?
Yeah I'll never understand the Ewers love. Dude sucked last year and he's the same age as JJ. Any team that drafts Ewers high is either named the Browns or the Lions.
I believe it's due to his recruiting hype coming out of high school and how his college journey has gone so far. He was so highly rated, got recognition for transferring out of OSU, and then stepped into the lead role for Texas. We'll see if the hype he had coming out of high school pans out, but from the little bit I've seen, I'm not terribly impressed; it does seem like the tools are there to potentially make him into an effective starter in the NFL.
Ewers has done pretty much nothing so far.
I do not disagree, but it sure felt like he was giving Alabama all they wanted and if he doesn’t get hurt we might be singing a different tune. The kid has all the talent in the world, but he doesn’t belong with this group. Neither does Milton or Sanders for that matter. Tons of potential, yes, but at a certain point they have to do it on the field, consistently, for longer than 1 game, against decent competition.
robbed some OSU supporters for one season of NIL $. I’ll take it.
There was a tweet the other day (I can't find it) that said Milton could be a top-10 selection based on the AR's draft position. They're essentially the same size and have monster arms but struggle with accuracy, and lack of games played/production.
Anthony Richardson got drafted because he ran a 4.43 40 and had some of the best testing numbers for a QB of all time. Milton is not that. He will be closer to 5.0 than 4.6 in the 40.
Yeah, there are some similarities, but the difference in speed is dramatic--and very relevant.
Somehow there is still the perception that Joe Milton is a dual threat QB. And he never was. In 30 games he has 362 yards rushing.
Hilarious how people want to believe so badly that Joe Milton couldn't possibly be good. I'll take a thousand dollar bet put in escrow by someone og mgoblog staff that he will be closer to 4.6 than 5.0. Wanna take that bet?
Hahahah, guess what Richardson's 40 time was coming out of high school? 4.64. It's almost as if a few years of high level college training combined with training specifically for the combine will help to dramatically improve those numbers
dm me
Are those Cardale "I ain't come to play school" Jones - like numbers?
Not sure why I had a double post, so I’ll just edit to be easier on your eyes. Here’s to the Red Wings not getting boned in the lottery again.
How could anyone think NIX is a better NFL prospect than JJ? Same with Rattler.
I know JJ is pretty Zen, but I hope this is already hanging on his locker.
Half the guys in front of him have played like half the snaps. Other than Penix and Williams, I am not sure its close based on what they've put on tape already, and what is about to come this year. JJ puts down another undefeated regular season, he and/or 1 of the RBs is going to be in NYC for the Heisman presentation. Wow, this is bad.
Even if Michigan goes 12-0 I don't think JJ will be a Heisman finalist. I know we Michigan fans want to think he will be. But he hasn't shown he could be that. He didn't carry the team last year. The running game did. And when it was put on him to carry the team against TCU, a team that showed its true colors against Georgia to not belong in the playoffs, he didn't have a good showing. He would have to have a huge sophomore to junior jump to be a finalist. I honestly don't think that's going to happen. This season he will be better than last season. I just don't think it's going to be a night and day difference. But maybe I'm pessimistic about him.
OTH, Blake Corum, to me, is an entirely different story. If he plays as is expected HE BETTER BE a Heisman finalist. He could get to 2000 this season. He had over 1500 in 11 games last season, with the first 3 games being low numbers for him. 2000 is possible for him this season.
JaMarcus Russell could throw it a mile and we see how well that went. Not saying Milton won't succeed but he needs to show out this season.
Before him, Kyle Boller got drafted in the first round due to arm strength. Plenty of examples of strong-armed dudes not being good QBs.
That Milton start vs Minnesota seems like a decade ago. It does say something though at even Harbaugh’s cast off QB’s are good enough to start at P5 schools.
The tinfoil hat in me says On3 put Milton ahead of JJ just to get rage clicks driven to the site by Michigan fans, but the logical part of my brain can see it given how high Anthony Richardson was drafted this year considering how comparable the two are. Will it actually pan out that way? Only time will tell.
Richardson and Milton are not comparable. Lol. Why is this nonsense being repeated?
Milton has a cannon and hope does great this year even though I don't like Tennessee or the SEC, but Milton's ceiling wouldn't touch AR.
KJ Jefferson on this list is egregious. The other guys ahead of JJ are a mix of hype and production but KJ Kefferson? Did they try to watch any Arkansas games last year?
Jefferson has a high floor in that he can step in at RG if QB doesn't work out.
NFL loves nothing more than a clean 50 yard overthrow by Milton, a truly great sight to behold!
There was a time when the NFL would use an Out Route to evaluate a QB's timing, delivery, etc. It seems as if those days are long gone...
If Joe Montana was playing today he'd probably kill just like he did in the 80's.
This past draft taught me, more than any previous year, that a good combine erases all concerns from the way a player actually performed on a football field. Richardson might be the next Lamar but his actual football field play was not deserving of a 4th overall selection. I suspect Milton can Wow a few teams at the combine and I bet that makes him a top 5 QB in the draft.
precisely. that's why it boggles my mind that guys feel the need to play right away. you only need a final good half a season in year 3 to be considered near the top of the draft.
Lamar Jackson was a record-setting QB in college. We can't just gloss over how much faith the Colts are putting in their rookie QB based on combine testing.
I'm not a betting man - but, I would be tempted to lay more than a few dollars down that Richardson won't live up to a top 4 draft number.
If ever there was a super freak athlete in college football it was Lamar Jackson. He did some things that were genuinely jaw dropping!
Absurd compared ro JJ.
Sanders-Rattler-Jefferson at 6-7-8 is certainly...an opinion. Especially over JJ and Jordan Travis.
So a bunch of QBs that don't have to deal with cold/windy conditions and then J.J.
I'll take J.J. from that group.
I think Caleb Williams is the only guy on that list I'd rather have as the starting QB at Michigan this year than JJ.
Milton's time at Michigan feels like it was ~8 years ago.
These last 2 seasons have washed a lot of bad memories far downstream.
I mean, I’m more surprised JJ was so low. I thought he was a top 3 or 4 QB. The 7th ranked QB might be a 3rd-5th round pick. Wouldn’t expect a whole lot from that range.
huge dropoff after #1 for sure.
I’m here for the dank Penix memes
Milton may fit in Heupel's offense because it's a one-read, chuck it down the field or screen offense, but as we've seen he can't deal with pressure or intermediate throws
The better question is why make so much of this post about shitting on Joe Milton for literally no reason?
I'd put JJ 4th behind Williams, Maye and Travis. And he could possibly move to 2 before it's said and done