The quarterbacks have been impressing teams with their athleticism and intangibles as we get closer to the draft.
Michael Penix Jr. has had what I’d call a modest climb, as far as I can tell, over the past few weeks.hesitant to say anyone is “flying up draft boards” because it just doesn’t happen that way. More often than not, it’s the media catching up to what teams think of guys, and the conversation through the public shifting accordingly.. He had a nice pro day, no doubt. The 40-yard dash in the 4.
The strongest answer I got was easy to understand. Simply put, Penix has things that you can’t coach. The deep-ball accuracy is off the charts. He throws with anticipation. And he’s tough as nails and very football smart. So where a scout looks at sometimes-scattershot accuracy underneath, and some issues with movement through the pocket, the coach looks at what he can coach, and what he can’t, and believes he can fill in the blanks thereafter.
Put it all together, and I think how Penix’s fate plays out should be one of the more intriguing storylines of draft weekend.The Michigan quarterback’s had a good few months. In a meeting room setting, his football IQ has reflected his experience running a pro-style offense, and That said, the workout helped put to bed the idea that McCarthy doesn’t have starting-quarterback tools. He’s not the physical outlier that a lot of guys who go that high in the draft usually are, but that’s not his game anyway.than any of the other quarterbacks in his class. Which is why we’re discussing the possibility that he goes in the top five.
Second, on his old deal, he was owed $18 million or more in each of the next four years. There’s also always the chance that, upon being traded, a player is going to make noise about wanting his contract revised . He'll also have motivation, with the last three years of his contract chopped off and another set of “doubters” to prove wrong. Which, of course, wouldn’t be part of the equation had he returned to Buffalo for a fifth season, and is why, really, this deal made sense for everyone involved.
It’s as good a situation as a first-round quarterback could hope for. Now, the Vikings have to find the right one—whether it’s a guy who could eventually carry a team or someone good enough now to be the bus driver with the potential to become more. And there’s no question that they’re turning over every rock they can, and piling up a lot of air miles, to get there.So, yes, personnel chief Eliot Wolf’s going to take phone calls on the pick.
O.K., so that said, what if, for example, Minnesota offers both its firsts and a 2025 first-rounder for the third pick? And in that scenario, if Minnesota takes, say, Maye, could the Patriots then try to trade back up into the top five to take McCarthy? And if that were to happen, could they hold on to the 23rd pick, and wind up with someone such as Oklahoma’s Tyler Guyton to fill their left tackle need?The Chicago Bears’ approach to Caleb Williams’s 30 visit was pretty cool.
The next day, a number of young veterans were in the building for Williams’s visit to the team headquarters, including Tyrique Stevenson and DJ Moore. Moore, for what it’s worth, hadn’t yet been back to the facility this offseason, and used the trip to meet some of his new offensive coaches for the first time. That it happened the day Williams was there didn’t seem to be coincidental.
Those are arguably the three best players of the six seasons of Tepper’s ownership. And as the team now moves to Tepper’s third head-coaching hire in four years, that’s made it just as easy for players to lose faith that they’d be rewarded for giving to the organization as it has been to lose faith in the organization’s ability to build a contender.
Last year, Jalen Hurts became the NFL’s highest paid player at $51 million per year Then, Lamar Jackson got $52 million, Justin Herbert got $52.5 million and Joe Burrow landed at $55 million. This, by the way, was just 11 years after Drew Brees became the first player to hit $20 million per season and Burrow’s now making more than double what Matthew Stafford got on a record-breaking five-year, $135 million deal six years before the Bengals QB did his deal.
• I think seven offensive tackles go in the first round. Maybe more. And it’s because of the scarcity of the position. If you, say, have a tackle need and a receiver need this year—or really any year in this era—it’s fair to say it’ll be a lot easier to address receiver later in the draft than it will be tackle. Which, I think, will have these guys flying off the board.
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