USA today put together this list. What do you think?
10. Teddy Bridgewater
9. Marcus Mariota
8. Jameis Winston
7. Ryan Tannehill
6. Sam Bradford
5. Joe Flacco
4. Matthew Stafford
3. Matt Ryan
2. Cam Newton
1. Andrew Luck
Michigan had 11 players drafted this year. Where did you get the other 11?
I can answer that for Michigan - none of their offensive linemen were drafted.
Michigan had 4 out of their 5 offensive linemen named as either 1st team or 2nd team All B1G this season.
-YTC
Andrew Luck should not be ranked ahead of Cameron Newton and Matt Ryan.
Michigan had 4 out of their 5 offensive linemen named as either 1st team or 2nd team All B1G this season.
-YTC
Andrew Luck should not be ranked ahead of Cameron Newton and Matt Ryan.
Team success doesn't mean ur a good QB. Trent Dilfer won a super bowl
Newton was worse than Bortles last year.
Ryan has been consistently above average for his career - besides last year.
Luck has been on some terrible teams
How is Sam Bradford ahead of anyone?
If by "caping hard af" you mean I thought Bradford wasn't given enough help in St. Louis for most of his tenure there then yes, it was me. I've never claimed he was gr8 or anything.
Why not Matthew Ryan?
Not meaning to jump all over you, but they had 3 fifth year seniors on that line and none of them were drafted. That's a much better indication of talent than all Big Ten lists - especially the media's - who just say Michigan was good this year so let's give their OL some all Big Ten love! Cole was the only plus lineman one that line, and he was a junior last year. He also struggled against any decent DTs he faced all year.
UCLA had two All Pac-12 selections on their O line and Wazzu had zero, despite the fact that Wazzu's line was rather good last year and UCLA's was a revolving door all season. Those teams always favor bigger name schools.
The things you're missing are that the Big Ten's OL talent was bad this year (Big Ten had 3 OL drafted), and Speight had his worst two games of the year against Iowa and Ohio State.
I know you like to troll about them being third, but they lost 2 Big Ten games by a combined 4 points. They missed out on first place in the Big Ten East by literal inches. It was partially bad OL, partially inconsistent QB play, and a good helping of bad luck. The OL was holding them back from being Alabama instead of just a top 10 team last year.
Okay, so the B1G's OL talent was bad. Was Michigan's not the best of a bad bunch then? It certainly appears that way, but I've been wrong before.
I'm just flabbergasted that a team could have NFL caliber players all over the place, have the best OL in the conference, AND one of the best corches in CFB and can't finish higher than 3rd. That must have been quite the large sized helping of bad luck.
-YTC
Good call, JAR.
-YTC
Tannehill is more like 700USA today put together this list. What do you think?
10. Teddy Bridgewater
9. Marcus Mariota
8. Jameis Winston
7. Ryan Tannehill
6. Sam Bradford
5. Joe Flacco
4. Matthew Stafford
3. Matt Ryan
2. Cam Newton
1. Andrew Luck
Someone actually agreed with meGood call, JAR.
-YTC