This episode, Football 3-01, Derek Klasson from The Athletic, joins me to talk about the

signal callers, the quarterbacks, the pretty boys.

We talk about Fernando Mendoza, the future number one pick.

We think to the Raiders, the Heisman winner, he at least did that.

Garrett Nussmeier, Ty Simpson, the day two selections, and the late round dart throws.

A lot of fun discussions with Derek Carson Beck, tailing green, Cole Peyton, amongst others.

Really fun.

See you guys in a second.

Hello and welcome back to Football 301.

I'm your host, Nate Tice. Great show for you today. We are doing our position previews for prospects, PPP for the 2026 NFL draft. And we're doing the big cahoons today. We're a big cahuna, a couple smaller cahunas, and then just a whole smattering of dart throws, as we'll call them throughout the show. But we're looking at the quarterbacks, the signal callers, the guys behind center, or most of this class in the shotgun. We're going to be talking about from Fernando Mendoza, Garrett Nussmeyer, Ty Simpson, tailing green, all the good stuff to help me do that, a guy that

literally has QB and his social media handles, Mr. QB class, Mr. Derek Klass, and from the

athletic, the athletic football show, my old stomping grounds, joining me now to talk about

quarterbacks. How are you doing, Derek? Great to see you, bud. I'm doing good. Great to be here. This is really the first opportunity I've gotten all draft season to actually talk about the quarterbacks. You know, there's been a couple of like, you have some smaller Mendoza conversations and would you really draft Simpson as high, all that. But this is the first time I'm like actually like digging in, digging in. And it seems like that's everyone's kind of timing it up the same way. Just recorded a show with Mina a little bit ago. So talking about these guys. But I know, and I think this draft class I was saying before the show, I just keep trying to find something to like be inspire me. Maybe my Desmond reader of this class.. You know, the Riley Leonard of this class,

my muse of this class.

And I,

you know,

I haven't really found that, but there are some guys that are going to be fun to talk about and might as well just jump into it. Because actually for once, even though there's owners meetings right now, we're seeing some stuff come out, but that's, We'll get to that kind of stuff later.

This is quarterback time.

Let's just jump right in there to the guy that is locked in 1-1, Fernando Mendoza from Indiana, transfer

from Cal.

Looks like he is going to be the number one pick going to the Las Vegas Raiders.

You'll be coached by Clint Kubiak.

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