The hyped 2027 QB draft class has gotten messy: "This isn't just an Arch Manning problem"

[Blake Munroe]

From NFL Blue Book:

Only a few months ago, the quarterback class heading for the 2027 NFL draft looked special.

“Oh yeah — there’s some dudes,” an NFL general manager said in August. “Right now, I’ve got five quarterbacks in the first round, if you include [Brendan] Sorsby.”

The GM had been getting up at 4 a.m. during camp, watching film and writing two player reports a day in an effort to get ahead on his evaluations. And what he saw in those early morning hours was living up to predictions that another bumper crop of QB talent was heading for the league.

“You think the quarterback class will hold up?” I asked.

“Definitely,” he replied. “Between Dante Moore, we’ll see how the LSU kid Sam Leavitt plays and if his foot is OK. I think he could go in the first. The five, I think it’s [Notre Dame’s CJ] Carr, Arch [Manning of Texas], Dante, Leavitt and Sorsby, depending how he looks.”

Less than three months later? It has not held up.

“It’s almost the same story as last year,” one longtime executive told NFL Blue Book on Monday. “All the hype and buildup without people really asking the experts who have known all along that there were issues with all these guys. It’s so bad across the landscape of college football that the NFL is actually excited about a former walk-on [in Mestemaker], who never started a varsity game at quarterback in high school.”

 

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