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They could simply decide to pass on Barkley. It’s an amazing class for RBs and they could easily decide to take their QB there and then see what happens at 4. If Barkley is gone, maybe they take Bradley Chubb instead. If both are gone, maybe they simply trade down. Barkley makes sense for them, but so does pretty much any of the RBs. Just because he looks like a good prospect doesn’t mean they have to be the ones that take him.

To be fair, that’s the same number that Josh Rosen had against top 30 defenses this year and nobody seems upset about the idea of drafting him. Allen has plenty of holes in his game right now, but the deck was also stacked so far against him in those games. Nobody could reasonably expect him to produce. And he also had at least one easy TD against Iowa that was dropped, not that 1 TD is much better. But I guess it’s easier to be dramatic since his WR couldn’t catch it and he therefore ended up with 0. Edit: for what it’s worth, I have Allen rated as my #3 QB prospect in this draft, but I personally don’t like the idea of trading up for him. While I think the potential reward is worthy of a top 10 pick, I wouldn’t feel good trading so many assets to take such a risky prospect there. I think it’s going to be him or Darnold in Buffalo though.

I imagine at least part of it is also just limited resources. Wyoming has one player that teams are interested in; it's not an efficient use of your scouting resources to send someone to watch them play numerous times when you can send someone to the USC-UCLA game and scout like 15 different guys. But at any rate, Buffalo sent scouts to at least two Wyoming games this season that we know of: the Oregon and Utah State games; those are the only ones that have been reported.

Buffalo has been scouting Allen for two years now. They did in fact go see one of his games in person this season but they can also glean just as much from watching his film from better angles than they’d get by being in the crowd. Regarding the bridge QB theory, there’s still QBs out there on the market and perhaps the front office is willing to take a step back in order to take a larger step forwards. Also, Allen could theoretically be ready to start in time for the regular season if need be. He has experience doing full field reads and playing under Center. It really depends on how long they think it’ll take to get his footwork right. You could make a decent argument that he’s closer to being ready for opening day than any of the QBs outside of Rosen honestly. I personally think Mayfield is more ready as well, but it’s debatable.

Jacksonville just signed Bortles to a big extension. Arizona just signed Bradford for $20 million per year. Cleveland has Tyrod and whatever rookie they draft. Miami is paying Tannehill. Jets have McCown and whatever rookie they draft. None of those teams will offer him starting money or a legitimate chance at the starting job.

Where is he going to go then? If not Buffalo, he has almost no chance of competing for a starting job.

Figured this was coming after they tried to sign every wide receiver on the market. I don't expect him to come to Buffalo, but it would make a lot of sense for them to try to get him in.

Whichever one of those 3 will take the least amount of money

Buffalo has played the QB situation perfectly. They can play McCown and AJ off each other now and drive down the price and then basically do the same with the top 5 with basically everyone sounding interested in trading down.

Just let the Jets have their choice and then we can scoop one up nice and cheap. No reason to overspend on a guy you’re replacing in at maximum, one year. I don’t think I’d even bother signing one until after the draft.

In terms of pro-readiness, I'd say they fall into the following categories: Ready to go from Day 1: Josh Rosen Baker Mayfield (if it's a shotgun based offense) Can play on Day 1, but would prefer time to develop them: Sam Darnold Josh Allen Lamar Jackson I'd like to work with all 3 of these guys on their mechanics before I'd ideally let them play in the regular season.

I'm not sure I agree with that. It's not a good draft class in terms of 1st round talents, but there's a lot of solid Day 2/3 targets. At any rate, I expect they'll sign some cheap outside WR in free agency or hope someone decent gets released and then see what happens with the draft.

I'm skeptical of this report. Nobody except this one dude on Twitter happened to catch Rapoport saying this on TV? I haven't seen anyone else reference it including Rapoport himself.

He has been tied to Buffalo. Matt Miller has been reporting for like 6 months now that he's the #1 QB on Buffalo's board.

Now THIS is a good signing.

They certainly won't be the laughingstock, at least not until Allen actually proves to be a bust. Pretty much everyone outside of PFF and fans like ourselves are very high on him.

He's been saying this since before the Super Bowl, as have other guys. To be fair, Matt Miller's been hearing for months now that it's Sam Darnold that Buffalo wants. I personally think those are the two that they're considering.

Allbright tweeted back in January that Denver likes Baker Mayfield and Josh Allen and Buffalo wants to trade up for Josh Allen. He thinks Denver will take Mayfield at 5.

I do agree with that. I hope it turns out to be a good deal. But Star was also working with incredible teammates every year and still failed to produce. Perhaps there's just comfort in knowing what you're getting with him.

Yes, but Star Lotulelei isn't drawing defenses offsides. QB will always be one of, if not the hardest position to evaluate.

That's literally why all of the NFL teams pay PFF lol is precisely because they aren't constrained to concrete formulas that don't take context into account.

https://www.profootballfocus.com/news/why-aaron-rodgers-earned-a-slightly-negative-grade

The pessimistic take on this is that 11 players in Carolina's front 7 played enough to be ranked in PFF's system. Of those, 8 graded out as above average in terms of stopping the run. 1 was slightly below average. Star and Kyle Love ranked as 2 of the worst in the entire league.

Hopefully this contract has an out clause early on.