College QBs and Future NFL Drafts

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Published: May 7, 2009

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... University of Southern California.

It sounds like science fiction, doesn't it; that the potential top quarterback in the draft in four years would not be selected until the second round?

Perhaps it is a bit far-fetched.

What happens, though, if all the first-round quarterbacks selected in this year's draft—Matthew Stafford, Mark Sanchez and Josh Freeman—go belly-up in 2009 or the following year or the year after that and prove an unwise investment?

And let's say (just for the sake of argument) that quarterbacks Nate Davis (Ball State) and Curtis Painter (Purdue), drafted this year in the fifth and sixth rounds, respectively, outstrip all expectations and develop into NFL stars for the San Francisco 49ers and the Indianapolis Colts?

Would this set of circumstances compel NFL teams to retool their high-risk, high-reward approach to drafting quarterbacks in the first r...

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