The 2021 QB Class... 3 Years Later 

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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.

"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

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.

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

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.

That's why Leon Edwards has the most aesthetic physique

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

7:51 aged like milk in the sahara

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.

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.

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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

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.

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

Fields highlight tape is sick

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Once I started this video I got a notification that Zach Wilson got traded to the broncos 😂

18:35 KTO basically calling the Bears poverty 💀

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

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.

Dont disrespect my boy David Mills who played in a playoff game not like other qb's😤😤😤

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

Best landing spots for Zach Wilson: San Francisco, Green Bay, KC, Denver, and LA Rams. Sit, learn, and get real coaching...

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2024 class gonna be the same way

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As a Jets fan. The Wilson pick killed me on the inside. I wanted to grab Penei Sewell and give Darnold a final year. The Wilson selection felt like a knife to a heart that I almost gave up on being a Jets fan. I thought he was undraftable.

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People have been giving Trevor "Sunshine" Lawrence crap but I think he will pull it back together eventually

My friend told me in 2021 that Trevor Lawrence would be the only one out of every single QB chosen that year to be successful, when Mac jones was a great QB. Looking back on his comments (he is a fins fan while Im a pats fan), safe to say, he was right.

In zach Wilson's defense, he never should have been drafted that high, or at all. The media got caught up in his flashy numbers against basically high-school teams and the jets fell for it

A week later and Wilson to the broncos. I figured they'd draft nix but whatever 😂

The 2021 QB Draft Class was very bad. Except Trevor Lawrence.

As I get older I’m excited to see all of the young talent in all of the leagues come out. Even if it’s against my home state Az. Good luck young dudes.

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As a lions fan I think the bears gave up on fields too soon, with all the improvements they’ve made it was gonna be a dawg fight for the division, sure if Caleb plays out they’re set for a decade but if not he’s gonna get demolished for 3 years and end up a backup like most of these guys

Do a video on the class before which has 5 Franchise QBs (Burrow,Tua,Herbert, Hurts and Love)

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What editing software did you use to make this video?

Majority of these guys wound up as 6th round trade picks.😐

KTO do 2020 Draft of QB’s please!!! 🙏🏼

He should do the 2020 QB class

Oh yes, a perfect video for my drive home

People also forget that the niners traded three first round picks for Trey Lance 💀 the only reason why people don’t clown on them harder is because they lucked into Brock Purdy

Trey Lance may have gotten screwed over by being selected that early in the draft

do a video on the 2020 qbs

People just don't want and can't develop QBs no more.

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

Trevor Lawrence is the average QB so far, but he is the only one who might have the contract extension among 2021 QB class. I am not sure whether Trevor Lawrence can be with Jaguars after 2026.

please respect Davis “Money” Mills

Fields was a guy I loved to watch in college but I had a feeling his game just wouldn't translate consistently to the pros. He was way too reliant on his legs.

I’m extremely nervous about who the commanders will pick at 2 and I really hope he isn’t bad

0:25 It was the latter. You really don’t have to watch the rest of the video beyond this point😂, but the explanation of how it became this way is very interesting.

Feels like this draft was just yesterday.

Every team wants to win now. Some good things take time to develop

Yall do every draft class besides 2020 😂😂😂😂

Youngstown State mentioned! 🔥 Go ‘Guins

Mac Jones is the best quarterback ever drafted

Problem is most of these guys need to sit for a full year before coming in ever. College game is so different now it takes time for a guy to adjust. That’s why I don’t think Caleb Williams will be as good if he starts from the get go.

I don’t know a thing about football but I find these videos interesting 😂 I literally couldn’t name you 4 nfl teams

I think you could draw some parallels to what happened to Baker Mayfield with his injury, and Trevor Lawrence. Moreover, you could also draw that parallel between Lawrence and Peyton Manning, one of the other more highly touted prospects at the position, and his early career off/on struggles. I think if you give up on him you could end up regretting it, and that he could develop into the prospect fans expected him to be.

As a bears fan imma miss fields 💯 wish him the best in Pittsburgh 🙏🏻

the Youngstown State slander is crazy.

When are you doing the 2020 QB class?

Should have made the outro longer I was vibing to the music and highlight of Celeb Williams 😭

Lmao “suck for luck” goes so much harder than “tank for Trevor”

This year is the reason why I don’t by the hype around 4 straight qbs taken this year

As a Pats fan watching this makes me want Marvin Harrison Jr.

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watching this makes me feel blessed as a chargers fan which is fuckin wild. Makes me appreciate daddy herbgod that much more.

outro never displeases

I hope lance gets some more chances i still believe in him

Feilds has the potential to fix up his mistakes at Pittsburgh. He was considered bad because he was on the BEARS.

Damn didn’t think Youngstown state would catch a stray

Shoutout to the Patriots (or Steve Sarkesian lets be honest) for speedrunning Mac Jones development only to then speedrun destroying said development

It's amazing how good San Fran has been despite giving up so much and whiffing on Lance. If they had gotten pretty much anything out of those picks, they could easily have multiple championships.

Wow. Trevor Lawrence is really the only one who’s worked out. He went backwards a bit in 2023 but I think he’ll turn it around. He’s such a good passer he has to.

This upcoming season is make or break for Trevor Lawrence, and as a Jags fan I am probably going to just go ahead and get on anxiety meds

And Zach just got traded to the Broncos

Such a great draft with such mid QB’s

browns fan to browns fan karsten i cannot wait for the joe flacco cleveland run video

This QB class reminds me of the 2015 QB class. Both had QBs go at #1 and #2 and were rather underwhelming. But I do think Trevor is an above average QB. And could breakout next season.

My buddies and I stopped watching the Jags-Chargers wild card game after the first half... we had no idea what happened until the game was over and somebody checked their twitter

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Hell yeah

As a BYU fan, it was painful to see Zack Wilson be so underwhelming. But 2 years later, we gave the league Puka Nakuru, not to mention having the pleasure of having Steve Young.

Zach Wilson was traded to the Broncos for 2 7's yesterday

Tlaw is gonna bounce back for sure 💯

As a jets fan I was excited to see what Wilson could to but tbh I wanted to keep Darnold and give him one last chance. Also starting Wilson right a away was stupid they should have let him sit for a while

Of these guys, Wilson seems like the one true bust who will never turn into much of anything. Lawrence I suspect will turn into a top 10 guy year in and year out, but perhaps not "generational". I think Trey Lance's bad luck with injuries means the jury is still out on him and maybe he appears as a starter in 4 years. Impossible to say. Fields just has to learn how to finish games without dumb mistakes. Jones probably will be one of those guys who starts here and there and stays in the league 15 years without being remarkable.

This is going to get some heat, but I think the 2 QBs who will succeed the most will be Bo Nix & JJ McCarthy.

49ers could have had Parsons. Imagine that.

Monday got way better

I thought Justin Fields was always hindered by first Matt Nagy and then OC Luke Getsy. A below average offensive line causing him to run for his life constantly. It's true that at times he held onto the ball too long BUT there were other times where there was pressure immediately. I thought he deserved one more chance with all the talent the bears were adding in the offseason. Moore, Allen, Kmet, and possibly draft Harrison Jr or Odunze? Could've said "this is it. no more excuses". Bears better hope Williams is everything the media thinks he is.

Imma say this a few weeks before he draft - Penix, Caleb, Nix, and McCarthy will all be solid as long as they’re healthy

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