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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

2021 First-Round QBs and Mahomes Stories With Todd McShay. Plus, Russell Wilson May Have Actually Said Something.

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares his thoughts on the notion that Russell Wilson could be traded (1:30), before he is joined by ESPN’s Todd McShay to discuss 2021 draft QB rankings, and why he has five QBs going in the first round (13:00). Finally, Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (42:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Great pod today. Todd McShay's newest mocktrap is out all offense, all quarterbacks, all

0:15.9

the time. And that's what we'll be doing and an open on Russell Wilson and we'll close

0:19.6

with Life Advice for the Weekend. Before we get to McShay today and we'll do some

0:23.9

Life Advice there at the end. You know what? With McShay coming up because if you haven't

0:27.4

seen it, his mocktrap is out. It's all offense at the top. Five quarterbacks go on the

0:32.1

top 12. He has trades in there as well. And the first reaction is like, you're going to

0:36.8

have five quarterbacks go this high. So I need to update the QB bus rating thing or ranking

0:42.8

whatever it is. I don't know, either apply in this case. I did it a couple years ago when

0:47.8

I'm still at ESPN, but I went through the last 20 years of first rounders and I didn't

0:51.4

want to make it super complicated. I want to make it pretty easy, kind of a common sense

0:55.1

consensus on quarterbacks careers because when five go in the first round, two, maybe

1:00.4

three are going to be terrible. It's unbelievable. And it's a 50% bus rate. I really believe

1:05.8

that. So I'll go back and look at it again. You're depending on mood. Maybe the percentage

1:11.2

will change a little bit because I was being pretty fair. I wasn't trying. I wasn't

1:15.8

doing a confirmation bias approach here where I was like, let me try to find a way to prove

1:19.8

my point by anything that's close that goes in my favor and the category that I want

1:24.0

to be, I was trying to be open-minded and fair about it. So it was bust, great career.

1:28.2

And then the guys in the middle, I'd even count as bust. And even with that, first rounders

1:32.6

about a 50% bus rate. So you've got this excitement. If you don't have a quarterback right

1:36.3

now and you're like, hey, make sure he has a dial, then with a quarterback. So we'll go

1:39.1

over all the different QBs and some of the issues there. And there was, there's so much

1:43.7

to do on it. I think it's going to be QB heavy and we know we'll have taught on again,

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