Have you ever marched proudly up to the prize counter at Chuck E. Cheese’s, loaded with a mountain of hard-earned tickets, and found nothing but lame trinkets left on the top shelf?
Yeah, that’s what it’ll feel like for any quarterback-needy team that ends up with a top-10 pick in the 2022 NFL draft.
This year’s crop of passers is light years in the wrong direction from the group we just saw enter the league, leaving teams at the top of the 2022 draft to choose between reaching for an inferior player too early, or punting on the whole class altogether.
There are still a handful of intriguing quarterbacks, though, and the importance of the position is likely to still land a few of them in the first round.
Find out which ones crash the top 32, and which ones have to wait for Day 2, in my updated three-round projections for the 2022 NFL draft: