The 2021 QB Class... 3 Years Later

The 2021 QB Class... How have their careers gone to this point?

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[johnk.]

"if you only looked at his highlights he would be a top 10 QB" is such a a perfect way to summarize Fields, such incredible talent in flashes but no consistency

[elijahsoczka]

As a Patriots fan, it infuriates me we squandered jones. Patricia was a stupid call, Joe Judge was a stupid call, and overall, the situation was dropped harder than a carton of eggs.

[Rudipu]

Just because you need a qb doesn't mean you should take one. Most of these teams that take qbs early would be better off building lines.

[frenchfrey]

I've been noticing a trend between College and NFL football, and I'll start with the NFL.
NFL has been going HAM on QB's, there have been more busts since 1998 then there were the previous 25 years before 1998, @Rudipu here said it best, just because you need a QB, doesn't mean you should take one. It's more than that though, NFL teams demand youth over experience, even if it means starting rookies with no starting experience whatsoever in the NFL, so many QB's coming out of college need to sit like Rodgers/Love/Mahomes did before they can start, but most of the NFL doesn't have that patience, many of these QB's should be drafted Day 2/3 instead of 1st round, unless your name was Trevor Lawrence (who's getting ruined by a poverty franchise), the Mannings, or CJ Stroud. It's a proven statistic that 1st round QB's are almost guaranteed to not turn your team around in year 1, it's so rare yet teams keep trying.

It's almost like the NFL is forgetting it's a PROFESSIONAL football league, and there are veterans that are either already proven, or have sat long enough to be given a shot. There was a 7 year period that was pretty much just that, guys coming out of no where to win SB's vs a 1st round QB on his original team, that would be the SB31-SB37 years, Favre was a 2nd round mistake pick by Atlanta, traded to the Packers, and turned them around, SB32-33 would be won by the only 1st round pick in those years, Elway, SB34 was won by a UDFA in Kurt Warner, then Free Agent Trent Dilfer would win one with the Ravens then be the only SB winning QB to be cut afterwards, Brady's 1st, then Brad Johnson and the Buccs, another FA.

The NFL has officially over valued the QB, they're desperate, 23/32 teams last season started a backup for any reason, and it's this lack of patience that is causing it, with all the good-great-HoF QB's retiring, getting injured, or simply declining in their careers, the replacements have not been very good. There used to be a time where trading for a backup QB to try and start him was an option, having tryouts were an option, and while also rare, signing future HoF's who feel their careers aren't over. If the NFL wants to be a competitive league, they need to re-evaluate how to handle QB's, draft them later, sit them while their cheap, pay them if they earn it. Ironically, there is a position imo that will benefit from this, the RB, they may have the shortest term careers, but if more get drafted 1st round, that money goes back up for them, and most only play their rookie deals, it's a win win.

Meanwhile, College has been going the opposite direction (even in basketball with Calipari's comments on recruiting and going to Arkansas!), the transfer portal has made it to where colleges are now demanding experienced starters over recruiting 4-5* prospects out of high school. It honestly annoys me, college football used to be where you'd only start upperclassmen if your recruits weren't special yet, but if you had a special 4-5* high school kid on your team as a FR, you'd play him right away anyway even if he never started a college game. Now? like I said, teams are demanding experience... Which makes no sense considering there's no preseason in college and the games are getting shorter now, how is anyone supposed to get playing time now if you're an underclassman? Who needs high school kids when you can lure a star college JR with NIL money to play for you? The irony of this? I haven't seen it work out for some teams (WI, Tanner Mordecai was such a bust imo!), but don't be surprised if it becomes the norm where P4 teams just straight up ignore high school kids in the future and recruit kids from lower divisions.

It's bizarre, essentially, my hot take is that the NFL is becoming more like college by going for athletic youth over experience, while the NCAA are going for elite veteran athletes instead of developing high school kids.

[instinctive]

This has to be by far one of the most underwhelming draft QB class in NFL history

[drewredwine]

Watching this instead of doing my final paper... today is a good day!

[glowstonebomber]

Trevor Lawrence still has a chance to show he’s the guy. The Jags replaced the worst starting center in the league and could get a true #1 WR this draft. I believe he will have a bounce back year this upcoming season.

[jippitycricket]

KTO makes football so much better with each video.

[kimjongunmoresubsthant-ser]

That's why Leon Edwards has the most aesthetic physique

[thugger-vandross]

as a washington fan, watching zach wilson’s meteoric rise feels eerily similar to jayden daniel’s. i’ve been following daniels since he was a HS recruit; prior to this season, the very thought of him going 1st round (let alone #2 overall) was less than nonexistent.

this video perfectly demonstrates why you should never reach for a qb, especially if you have needs everywhere else. i know it’s impossible at this point, but i wish so badly we would just take harrison jr and continue building our team.

[RAPIDFIRE]

2021 class needs to be studied on how much hype this class got just to fall off the face of the earth only a few years later. I just hope this upcoming class isn’t like that because I really hope all these guys make a great career in the league

[blindfire]

I feel so bad for Mac Jones. I don't think he's awful, but having to deal with Bellicheck just angry panicking that people questioned his actual coaching ability (he's really smart and knows the game extremely well, but you kind of tilt yourself if you listen in on people just saying your entire career was a sham because you had the greatest QB of all time by your side) making some really bad decisions, not to mention the OFC Jones had to deal with (like Butt Chin O'Brien and his dumbass ways, forever mad is Houston for tanking the team for so many years) weren't very good and extremely volatile people.

I definitely don't think he's great, but people are going to shit on him for what he was given, and I hope a team actually gives him SOME effort instead of having OFC scream at you for not learning their dumb static plays rather than revolve around the QB's abilities.

[folumb]

That year for QBs has really showed me how little ANYONE knows about them. The best run NFL system according to some (49ers) drafted Trey Lance. The football savant Bill Bellichek drafted Mac Jones, the can't miss player of the generation Trevor Lawrence has looked average. I was not different because I legit thought every one of these guys would be amazing. I can't pretend to know anything about 2024 draft. For all I know every one of them could be a bust

[DA-yljs]

To this day it annoys me to no end that anytime people talk about Zach Wilson, they feel the need to mention the fact that he played a soft schedule his junior year. When you bring up Trey Lance, who played fewer games against worse competition, no one brings up the soft schedule. Wilson went to the absolute worst place imaginable, a bad team with no o-line, a defensive head coach, and gave him an offensive coordinator who rode Kyle Shanahan's coattails, only to replace him with a guy who rode Aaron Rodger's coattails. He never should have gone that high, balling out during his pro day may have been the worst thing he could have done.

[ComicSams]

Trey Lance got absolutely wasted in SF. It sucks he never really got a chance, getting benched and then injured when you finally get on the field

[johnasiuras]

Every video gets better than the last. Keep it up bro

[articartcorner]

As an NDSU alum, I hope that Trey can grow and eventually get his time in the spotlight

[Name_]

18:35 KTO basically calling the Bears poverty 💀

[Eddieavina]

Love your video KTO and keep up the great work you are awesome

[tombradydeflates]

I think you give Lawrence benefit of doubt. Was 8-3 before season altering injury. No injury, I bet they end up 12-5