Interesting how quickly things can change.

Dante Moore, Arch Manning, et al got all of the pre-season hype but both of them have struggled to read defenses and make the correct decisions. They have the physical tools but need a lot of work before they are ready for the NFL. Hopefully, Dante Moore goes to a team where he can sit and develop for awhile before he is expected to lead an offense (ala Patrick Mahomes or Jordan Love).

Someone mentioned that QB development is a major issue in college football. Hopefully, Oregon can hire a top notch offensive coordinator and QB coach.

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NFL scouts favor Drew Mestemaker as first QB taken in draft

ESPN conducted a midseason poll of 25 scouts and executives, asking who the top quarterback will be in next year's draft. Not surprisingly, the choppy play of top prospects yielded drastically different results from the August QB1 poll.

Seventeen of the 25 scouts in the midseason poll voted for Oklahoma State's Drew Mestemaker. The 17 votes are the most a quarterback has received in the three years ESPN has conducted the poll, with the overwhelming conviction about Mestemaker perhaps more a surprise than his general emergence. (Mestemaker got zero votes in the August poll.)

One scout summed up his vote this way: "Mestemaker seems like the only real choice at this point."

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/50335830/nfl-scouts-favor-drew-mestemaker-first-qb-taken-draft

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