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2024 NFL draft watch list: Top prospects for the New Orleans Saints at QB

With the college football season approaching, here are top prospects for the New Orleans Saints 2024 NFL draft watch list at quarterback | @DillySanders @crissy_froyd

With the college football season right around the corner, we’re taking a break from New Orleans Saints training camp coverage to highlight prospects for our 2024 NFL draft watch list. We’re starting off with the game’s most important position: quarterback.

Now, the Saints likely won’t be on the hunt for a new quarterback in the spring — having signed Derek Carr and drafted Jake Haener to back him up, they’ve resolved that question for at least a few years. But there’s a very good chance one of the top rookie passers ends up in the division on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers or Atlanta Falcons. We just saw the Carolina Panthers make a surprise trade to pick Bryce Young first overall, so who’s to say one of those NFC South rivals won’t follow that blueprint?

Here are our top five quarterback prospects eligible for the 2024 draft, along with a couple of honorable mentions:

Top ACC players Notre Dame will be playing in 2023

Keep your eye on these players when the Irish face them.

In exchange for retaining its football independence, Notre Dame plays a certain number of ACC opponents every season. The only other sport in which Notre Dame is not an ACC member is hockey, which plays in the Big Ten. While old-school Irish fans might long for the days of the program being able to schedule almost anyone at anytime, some often forget that this arrangement means some thrilling football. The home wins over recent powerhouse Clemson in 2020 and 2022 are two examples.

College football isn’t back yet, but you still can look at the rosters and see which quality players play for whom. Twitter’s Big Game Boomer has done just that and come up with a list of the top 50 ACC players for the upcoming season. When you look at the list, you’ll see the Irish have many of them set to face them. Let’s see who the Irish are playing when you take away the players whose teams aren’t on their schedule:

2024 NFL draft: Preseason QB watch list and early rankings

An early ranking of the quarterbacks in the 2024 NFL draft class and QB watch list from Draft Wire’s Jeff Risdon

Nothing in the world of the NFL draft attracts attention quite like the quarterbacks. They’re the most debated, most scrutinized and most analyzed prospects every year. For the players included here in the preliminary list for 2024, it’s just something they’re going to have to accept.

These are very fluid rankings. In general, these are early impressions about the NFL potential of players who still have a considerable amount of football to play before they’re drafted.

With some feedback and info from a couple of team-employed NFL scouts and an active player agent, here is an early listing and my preliminary ranking for the QBs in the NFL draft class of 2024.