joining me right now is a draft expert we've had beau marchanti on the show before uh typically

this time a year uh the draft begins a month from tomorrow night it'll be here before we know it

washington will be on the clock at number seven unless there is a trade uh sometime before then

bow is with us at Bo Marchanti on X.

He's with College to Pro.com.

Welcome back to the show.

Always enjoy these draft conversations with you every year.

So let's just start with where is this draft, you know, relative to others? Is it as bad at the top, as people say? I don't think it's as bad as the top. I just, you know, the NFL is built on quarterback, so we're not talking about, you know, Michael Pennock, Bow, Knicks, and all those guys all going within the top, like, 12 picks of the draft.

So, you know, you're going to have Fernando Mandoza going number one, and then we're going to linger

on to the High Simpson go somewhere in the mid-round.

It does he slip the Friday night in round, too?

So the quarterbacks are the generator.

They're the motor that runs the league, and without top quarterback guys, it kind of sounds quiet.

But I do think this draft, it wasn't loved it first,

but I think when you start to look at it,

and as we kind of build towards April 23rd to the 25th,

downtown Pittsburgh, the 2026 NFL draft,

I think people are going to start to grow fondly of

this crew. Look, we're in a position for the first time in a while last year as well. We're

quarterbacks not on our mind, fortunately, because it was for decades. But I am curious as to

what you think of the quarterbacks, because I was listening to

something yesterday where Dan Orlovsky at ESPN not only said he likes Ty Simpson more than Mendoza,

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