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Tom Savage, QB, Pittsburgh: The 2014 draft has been an utterly confounding one to figure out, with the quarterback position leading the charge. The buzz continues to point toward Teddy Bridgewater and other top-ranked (at least, by the media) QBs slipping down the board, while the seemingly flawed Savage has risen into the early Round 2 discussion.
That’s not to say that Savage is destined to fail — at 6-foot-5 with a big arm, he ticks off many of the boxes NFL teams look for at quarterback. But he also turned in three rather nondescript college seasons, while playing for three different teams. He is very limited in his mobility and must get much quicker with his decision-making before any team can even begin to think about him as starting-QB material.
Does the potential bump him above a plummeting prospect like Bridgewater or other projected Day 2 guys (Jimmy Garoppolo, Zach Mettenberger, Aaron Murray, etc.)? It might. It probably should not.
Stanley Jean-Baptiste, CB, Nebraska: There was a rather sudden pro-Jean-Baptiste push earlier this week, when Mike Mayock proclaimed him a Round 1 possibility and highly respected draft guru Daniel Jeremiah [SIZE=+0]unveiled a mock[/SIZE] with the Nebraska corner landing at No. 30 to San Francisco.
“He’s a long corner that fits today’s game with an exciting skillset,” Mayock said in a media conference call. “I could bet on that kind of guy.”
Jean-Baptiste is far from a finished product, so much of the support for him comes from a similar place as that for Savage or Blake Bortles. In other words, Jean-Baptiste, at a long 6-3, fits the prototype for his position.
That said, he actually fell outside of SI’s [SIZE=+0]Top 100 rankings[/SIZE], a list that included 14 other cornerbacks. Many others had a more positive view (CBS has Jean-Baptiste at No. 71 overall, ESPN at 58). None of those numbers hit inside the 32 required to land Jean-Baptiste in Round 1.
Tom Savage, QB, Pittsburgh: The 2014 draft has been an utterly confounding one to figure out, with the quarterback position leading the charge. The buzz continues to point toward Teddy Bridgewater and other top-ranked (at least, by the media) QBs slipping down the board, while the seemingly flawed Savage has risen into the early Round 2 discussion.
That’s not to say that Savage is destined to fail — at 6-foot-5 with a big arm, he ticks off many of the boxes NFL teams look for at quarterback. But he also turned in three rather nondescript college seasons, while playing for three different teams. He is very limited in his mobility and must get much quicker with his decision-making before any team can even begin to think about him as starting-QB material.
Does the potential bump him above a plummeting prospect like Bridgewater or other projected Day 2 guys (Jimmy Garoppolo, Zach Mettenberger, Aaron Murray, etc.)? It might. It probably should not.
Stanley Jean-Baptiste, CB, Nebraska: There was a rather sudden pro-Jean-Baptiste push earlier this week, when Mike Mayock proclaimed him a Round 1 possibility and highly respected draft guru Daniel Jeremiah [SIZE=+0]unveiled a mock[/SIZE] with the Nebraska corner landing at No. 30 to San Francisco.
“He’s a long corner that fits today’s game with an exciting skillset,” Mayock said in a media conference call. “I could bet on that kind of guy.”
Jean-Baptiste is far from a finished product, so much of the support for him comes from a similar place as that for Savage or Blake Bortles. In other words, Jean-Baptiste, at a long 6-3, fits the prototype for his position.
That said, he actually fell outside of SI’s [SIZE=+0]Top 100 rankings[/SIZE], a list that included 14 other cornerbacks. Many others had a more positive view (CBS has Jean-Baptiste at No. 71 overall, ESPN at 58). None of those numbers hit inside the 32 required to land Jean-Baptiste in Round 1.