Every year, the NFL draft conversation starts and ends with the top quarterback prospects, and this year’s class will be no different.
While this crop of quarterbacks could end up yielding as many as four top-10 picks, the next tier of passers appears to have a much wider range of early projections.
Florida’s Kyle Trask and Alabama’s Mac Jones are both having incredible seasons at the college level, but will both of them impress enough to warrant a first-round selection?
That’s not the case in the latest 2021 NFL mock draft from Yahoo Sports, which has Jones cracking the top 32, while Trask is still on the board heading into Day 2.
Jones lands with the Indianapolis Colts at No. 23 overall in this mock, as the fifth quarterback off the board. He follows Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence (No. 1 overall, New York Jets), Ohio State’s Justin Fields (No. 2 overall, Jacksonville Jaguars), BYU’s Zach Wilson (No. 6 overall, Carolina Panthers) and North Dakota State’s Trey Lance (No. 7 overall, Atlanta Falcons).
Yahoo’s Eric Edholm believes Jones would be a good fit in Indy, but admits the Colts could also go the veteran route if Philip Rivers doesn’t return for the 2021 season, and even target Trask in the second round:
Jones feels like someone whom GM Chris Ballard and Co. will end up falling for if they can’t go the veteran route at QB. It also feels like they could go with a short-term vet (or keep Rivers another year) and target Florida’s Kyle Trask on Day 2.
To check out Edholm’s full first-round projection at Yahoo Sports, click here.
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