Quote:Who was it? Gabbert? Branch? Alualu? All of the above?

 

It's Gabbert. This shouldn't even be up for debate. Anytime your 1ST RD choice at QB fails it's easily your biggest bust. Alualu was his biggest reach though. No denying that. But in terms of overall value and loss, Gabbert has been the most gut wrenching. We gave up a 2ND RD pick to move up six spots to get him at #10. That entire QB class is starting to look bad at this point. Ponder just got benched, Gabbert is done here in JAX, Locker might save face this year though if TEN continues to win football games. And it's possible that Newton could do the same, just depends on how and who you want to pin the blame on up there in CAR. TEN did it the right way though. They didn't throw Locker to the wolves in 2011. They let Hasselbeck start and in the long run, it seems to have paid off for them. And what's so bad is that, out of that class, he was the only other senior in RD1 with Ponder. Gabbert needed to sit out his first year. But that's not how the chips fell.

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