(06-22-2021, 09:41 AM)JagFan81 Wrote:

(06-22-2021, 08:45 AM)Mikey Wrote: Are you saying Tua was healthy enough to start week 1? With no preseason? Fresh off the injury from that LSU game? Safe to say that the approach to him starting could be characterized as "hesitant" early on. His first appearance was in a blowout win, and still didn't get a start for several weeks after that.

Mahomes was taken at 10, and like the Rodgers situation, the team had a capable starter in place and had expectations of postseason. That is textbook value pick to take care of future. There was no urgency. If Minshew plays like Alex Smith, and we are pretty certain that we have a playoff roster built, by all means, let's sit TLaw for one last dance with the Shew. I don't see that being the case, presently.

So we have Baker Mayfield, the solitary example of a team taking a QB at the top of the draft and choosing to sit him for a few weeks (The team traded for Tyrod that offseason, and Mayfield was in by week 3 due to injury). If we are basing our QB development strategy to model Hue Jackson, well, there's nothing left to say here.

Well there was Jared Goff