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I entered a mock draft contest at my brother's work so I figured I'd upload that to my website for historical purposes too. https://draftqbs.wordpress.com/2018-mock-draft/

Since he's been talked about so incredibly little, I figured this would be a good place to post this: Story about Luis Perez's amazing journey to the NFL http://www.profootballweekly.com/2018/04/25/from-bowling-star-to-qb-in-five-years-luis-perez-is-the-nfl-drafts-most-unlikely-prospect/a6p505x/

My gut instinct all along has been that the Jets (and Bills for that matter) would be higher on Allen than they were on Mayfield or Rosen. But having said that, I could easily see the sudden rumors of the Jets preferring both Josh's over Darnold as a smokescreen. It accomplishes one of two things: 1. If the Bills want one of the Josh's and the Jets want Darnold, it gets the Bills to sacrifice valuable assets to move up higher than necessary to get their guy. 2. If the Bills want Darnold and the Jets want Darnold, it gets the Bills to think they can safely wait and move up to 4 or 5 instead of 2 and end up allowing the Jets to get their guy instead.

I'm not really a fan of Rosen (relatively speaking), but in the very least, it's good to see how thorough the Bills are being about the whole process.

Because McBeane is smart Because the Jets are dumb

Yeah haha, it's all relative, but I remember there was a website basically dedicated to scoring mock drafts based on getting the team and the pick correct (basically got half credit if you got the slot right but the wrong team or vice versa) and he was #1 last year. I'm familiar with him from when he was a Bucs writer and he was extremely well connected to the team back then. He's well connected around the league at this point despite working for a total douchebag in Walter.

There's nothing wrong IMO with liking QBs of varying skillsets. In fact, I think that's the smartest way to go, especially considering how little is currently set in stone on the offensive side of the ball.

Walter isn't very good but Charlie is very well-connected and had, I believe, the most accurate mock draft of all the media outlets last year.

Published this morning: http://walterfootball.com/nflhotpress I can't directly quote it because the website is blocked on my work computer (I read it on my phone), but to summarize: He's hearing that the Bills are NOT interested in Lamar Jackson, citing the need to build an offense around his skillset as something that Buffalo is not interested in. Buffalo's preference of QBs is: Sam Darnold Josh Allen Josh Rosen Baker Mayfield and they like all four of them. He also says that if they're able to keep #22, they'd be targeting CB, LB, or O-Line, and he specifically mentions Isaiah Oliver, Donte Jackson, and Rashaan Evans as the 3 guys to watch.

I contributed too you know... But seriously, thanks to all the guys OP mentioned for everything they've provided. It's been a fun ride. I mentioned it in another thread last night, but regardless of which QB we all personally want, it seems like it's a pretty safe bet that by the end of the night, Buffalo will have acquired its most physically talented QB that it's had in nearly 20 years. Even if it isn't the one we all personally want, we should all be very excited by the end of the night.

Mayfield on the Bills? Nah. Lamar is the guy I want the most; Rosen the least (of the projected first rounders that is). Edit: I don't consider Rudolph a 1st rounder or he'd be below Rosen easily.

I honestly hope that Rosen is the one the Jets end up with

Mayfield has now become the betting favorite in Vegas to go #1 after it being Darnold basically the entire year.

He reportedly filled the front office/coaching staff in on who the pick is yesterday.

I’m hoping for better than a potentially injury prone Eli, but um, you could do a lot worse than being pretty certain you’re getting an above average starter.

Assuming you’re referring to Derwin James, some people think he could be a LB in the NFL

Not a good look but this is nothing like the Tunsil stuff that was going down. On a related note, who was that guy that got accused of murder or something the night of the draft and went from 1st round to undrafted?

I think we should keep in mind that even if we don’t end up with the QB each of us prefers, it appears extremely likely that Buffalo will have the most physically talented QB it’s had in a decade or two. Tomorrow should be a very exciting night.

Besides the big arm, Mahomes and Allen aren’t all that similar IMO. Mahomes was somewhat undersized, smallish hands, uber productive and Mayfield-esq in terms of being kinda frenetic in the pocket. I think he’s more similar to Mayfield honestly. Cardale simply wasn’t a good prospect. Its possible that Peterman and McCarron aren’t the preference; they simply were the best remaining options. I admit you might be right about the Peterman/McCarron angle though. Although I don’t think Peterman was an accurate passer in college either; he really wasn’t good at anything in particular.

I for one am happy to see them pick Allen over Rosen, though the fact that Rosen and Lamar slid to 15 and 16 respectively would annoy me.

I don't want to get to 2 either

Trading next year's 1st would be a nightmare IMO

So we can now mark down two QBs that reportedly worked out or met with the Bills that are now saying they never did.

He absolutely did. Roughly 3-5 times per game and that's not even counting RPOs and other QB Keepers that they ran.

I've seen this posted a few times, but it's very strange because Barnwell posted an article roughly a week ago that laid out all the numbers and found that while Allen did indeed attempt 30.7% of his passes under 5 yards, that was significantly lower than Darnold, Baker, or Rosen, who were all between 38-40%.