MMQB - The Next Wentz? Justin Herbert Is Turning Heads

[Bigdog]

I know it is long time before they have to decide but I read somewhere that Herbert is thinking about staying for senior year according to some friends and family close to him. That might change when he gets a 1st rd grade though.

 

[Sydla]

I won't comment on this kid until Risen gives his thumbs up or thumbs down.

 

[cowboy_ron]

The next Wentz....you mean injury prone?

 

[Xelda]

How is Wentz the new gold standard for QBs?

 

[Sydla]

I think the point of the article isn't that Wentz is the new standard of NFL QBs but rather his rise to being a top QB selection is a similar story being played out with Herbert - under recruited kid, he wasn't even the top choice of the Ducks in that recruiting year, etc.

 

[LatinMind]

https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/10/03/justin-herbert-oregon-quarterback-2019-nfl-draft

Such a big part of the Carson Wentz story three years ago was how he came out of nowhere (“nowhere” being Fargo) to position himself as a Top 5 guy in the 2016 draft class. Maybe you’d think that would be one big difference between him and Oregon’s fast-rising quarterback prospect, Justin Herbert. But then you hear how Herbert wound up on scholarship in Eugene in the first place.

Herbert’s offer list wasn’t much different than Wentz’s. He had one from Northern Arizona, another from Portland State, and—the offer he was planning to take at one point—joining his brother at Montana State. Herbert broke his leg as a high school junior, so his hometown Ducks (he grew up with season tickets and his grandfather played there) waited to see him throw as a senior, offered him then, and he accepted on the spot. He was the third quarterback in the Ducks’ 2016 class.

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It’s been just 37 months since then-Oregon coach Mark Helfrich and OC Scott Frost gave Herbert that opportunity, and it’s safe to say, he’s made the most of it. And there’s a lot more than just being the big, athletic, overlooked small-town kid that will draw the comparisons to Wentz. Most notably, it’s the expectation his wait to be picked won’t last long on draft day.

“He has all the tools, all the traits,” says one AFC exec. “He’s a bigger [Marcus] Mariota to me. He could use another year in school, another year of maturing. But I could definitely see him going high, just based on talent and traits, if he came out.”

The potential 2019 QB draft class was a jumbled mess of great potential and big unknowns coming into the season. Herbert, through five weeks, has pushed to the front of it. There’s the above evaluator’s comp to Mariota. There are a couple others I talked to this week who said Herbert reminds them of Wentz in stature, athleticism, off-schedule playmaking ability, and arm talent.

The implication there isn’t hard to figure out. Herbert’s got the goods to go in the Top 5 picks of the 2019 draft. He’s also got a lot of room to grow, which is great, but also illustrates the overriding feeling among scouts that, while he’s come a long way since arriving on campus, he’s not quite where he needs to be yet from an NFL standpoint.

You people eat Daks lunch for his mechanics. You guys would rip this guy to peices.

 

[Future]

Watch him go to the Giants.

I don't want to give them credit, but I wonder if they skipped taking a QB last year knowing full well that they'd be relatively unchallenged for a QB at the top of the draft this year.

 

[McKDaddy]

ELI is done,he is as responsible for their poor Offense as their Oline.

ahh the parallels between our two franchises.