Why Does Merril Hoge Have CJ Stroud Ranked Ahead Of Bryce Young? | 04/26/23

Former NFL RB Merril Huge joins the Dan Patrick Show and discusses why CJ Stroud is the only QB in this draft that he gave a 1st round grade to as well as why he ranks CJ Stroud ahead of Bryce Young

[staystrappedlikeadke]

Bro if you go back and look, the majority of Merrill Hoges takes are crazy accurate. How this dude doesnt have his own podcast or hasnt been picked up by another network is insane, hell of an analyst

[monarchist]

4 weeks into the season and this is looking like a common merril hoge masterclass

[dtwister]

Who’s here after CJ Stroud had a historic rookie season and took the Texans to a Wild Card playoff win against a good Browns defense? Merril Hoge is a crazy good talent evaluator at this point

[Timothy.]

4 weeks into the szn and dude is SPOT ON! Bryce has already missed time with injuries and CJ is 2-2 and lightning it up! Will see how it plays out.

[hamzaabdikarim]

I agree with Merril Hodge. CJ Stroud’s game will translate better to the NFL than all the other QB’s because of his accuracy and descion making. I don’t think Bryce will last at his size.

[financialliteracy]

I come back to this interview quite quite often because I’m in shock of how accurate Merril was on this take. I’m here after C.J Stroud beat the browns. Regardless of what happens between the Texans and Baltimore, C.J had one on the greatest rookie seasons ever and has a amazing career ahead of him! 💯

[BGINNER]

Panthers are gonna make the mistake of drafting Bryce at 1 because they listened to the media hyoe. CJ will go on to compete against Burrow and Mahomes and be a completion percentage leader year in and year out.

[rute]

5 weeks in:
- CJ: 1, 461 yards, 7 TD, 0 INT
- Bryce: 750 yards, 5 TD, 4 INT, and has already missed a game due injury

Hoge on point with his analysis again!

[danielvandusen]

It's crazy how correct he is. He didn't pick CJ just because he isn't small like Bryce but because he is special in his abilities.

Practically everyone outside of a small few have picked Bryce to be the best qb and out of those few only even a smaller few could see the actual talent and not put him above Bryce just because they thought Young was just too small.

But this dude saw it and actually called it out way back then.

[Demerey]

And here we are with CJ breaking the single game rookie passing record on a 5 td day with no picks. Oh and game winning score with 6 seconds left. Nostradamus Hoge strikes again.

[Sigbock]

Merril was right on with his analysis of CJ Stroud

[tzcharles]

Gatdam Merril not being on TV must be a choice lol he’s way too good of an analyst to not be there

[amazingrando]

He's right. Been saying it all along: Bryce's arm is going to be a liability against bigger, faster, smarter DBs in the NFL

[TGTPodcast]

I 100% agree cj's game just translates better...

[claymac]

Another grand slam home run draft prediction by Hodge. This guy is the best draft analyst out there.

[twhit]

When I purchase my first NFL Team, I'm calling this guy.

[JamesAvila-xuds]

Him and Steve smith are the people you gotta listen with talent in my opinion

[beauchatching]

Merrill Hoge looking like a straight up prophet.

[kingtrawal]

Merrill Hage, looking like a goddamn genius as usual

[julienlozano]

I strongly believe that the Texans had in their minds they were going after CJ and played the panthers into thinking they wanted young. Well played.