It wasn’t that long ago that former Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields (we can say that now) was thought to be one of the top two or three prospects in the upcoming 2021 NFL draft. Some analysts even wondered if he could do enough to supplant Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence as the No. 1 overall pick.
Those days appear to be gone.
Some inconsistency in a couple of games in 2020 has changed the mind it seems forever of some of the NFL analysts and scouts that get paid to give opinions on these sorts of things, and Fields has quickly gone from potential No. 1, to outside the top ten in some cases.
Case in point — ESPN NFL draft guru Todd McShay just recently released his list of top 32 NFL draft prospects (subscription required) and Fields has fallen even further down than what any of us would have believed at the beginning of the year, and especially after the first three games when the dual-threat QB had more touchdowns than incompletions.
So where does McShay have him now, and why? Here’s what one of the most well-known NFL player evaluators says.