Both QB's played a pre-season game in Detroit.   The difference in the media coverage for the two QB's was equivalent to the difference between day and night.    Bortles was hardly even mentioned in the news media that covers the Lions,  leading up to the game.   Manziel was getting as much coverage as the Lions key players and coaches,   which is almost unheard of for an opposing player.  

 

Yet,  when the dust settled when pre-season football actually was played,  Blake Bortles looked like the prototype QB prospect that teams try to trade up for.  Johnny Manziel looked the part of someone who was in a reality TV football game.   There's absolutely no comparison  in terms of the two QB's.     If Bortles stays on his current track,  the Jaguars are in tremendous shape at the QB position for the next 15 years.   Maybe even longer.   Keeping him healthy and from noticeably regressing because of a problematic Offensive Line situation makes a great amount of sense.

 

While Bortles will likely prove to be the best QB from this draft crop,  a comparison with Teddy Bridgewater and/ or Derek Carr ( who also played against the Lions )  would seem to be much more fitting than one with Manziel.  

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