Delving into stats, Sean Pendergast looks at how QBs picked second in the NFL Draft have historically done.
Trevor Lawrence is half of the most recent duo to get drafted first and second in the draft.The wound licking has already begun for Houston Texan fans who were so excited about the possibility of the team drafting Bryce Young. As we've discussed in this space multiple times now, it appears that Young will be going to Carolina with the first overall pick in next week's draft. The thought, for weeks, had been that the Texans would just tab Ohio State QB C.J.
Well, NOT SO FAST, MY FRIEND! It is now looking more and more likely that the Texans will be drafting an edge rusher, or trading out of the second overall pick altogether. Either way, the chances of them taking a quarterback appear to have diminished. Is it anything specific that may have soured the team on Stroud, assuming there was even a lot they loved about him to begin with?
We will likely never know the answer to that question, if Stroud indeed winds up elsewhere. What may sour the Texans, or any NFL fan, on taking the second best quarterback in a draft where the top two picks are quarterbacks is history. The history of the second QB taken with the second overall pick is pretty treacherous since 1993, a period that has seen quarterbacks taken with the first and second overall picks seven times.This is one of the widest gaps on this list.
So, if we tally it up, of the seven instances where quarterbacks have been selected first and second, five have resulted in the first pick outplaying the second pick, and in four of those cases, the gap is WIDE. There was one instance of the second pick clearly being the better player , and we'll call 2015 a standoff in futility. So the record is 5-1-1 in favor of number one overall picks!
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