Quarterback Prospects Quotes

In a given year, there may be two or three NFL-ready quarterbacks at the college level. In another year, there literally may be zero.

I don't think I'm ever surprised at how high the quarterbacks go. There could be a lot of teams that often times don't have a lot of first-round grades on guys that are going in the first round, and that's just the nature of the business.

I just don't think you pass on a great quarterback if you have the opportunity. If need be, you can trade it away.

I think the only time I doubted myself was my senior year in high school. I was not offered a Division I scholarship. I remember a scout from Ohio State coming in and looking at my film. He was all excited to meet me. Then he met me and I was 5'10" and he said that I was not a Division I quarterback.

The quarterbacks who are picked in the first round and are declared - and I don't like the word - busts, it's not that the scouts were wrong about their ability or their potential. But commitment is such a huge part of it.

So, there's no guarantee in the NFL that if you've got the No. 1 pick or you've got a top-five pick, that you're going to be able to draft a franchise quarterback.

You see a lot of smaller-school guys go to the NFL and have success: Carson Wentz, Derek Carr for example.

I had all kinds of different quarterbacks. But we never drafted a first-rounder.

No one's taking quarterbacks, for the most part, in the first round that haven't had a lot of success.

If you look around, there are very few really super quarterbacks. There are just very few. If you're lucky enough to have one, lucky enough that one of these Andrew Lucks is available when you have the top pick, then that's just a matter of luck. You can't attribute that to anything else.

If you look historically at the draft at quarterbacks in the top 10, about half of them flame out very quickly.