Is Bryce Young Big Enough to be an Elite NFL QB?

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🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The 2023 NFL Draft is Thursday night, and all signs point to Alabama QB Bryce Young going to the Panthers as the No. 1 pick. Young has dazzled in his time at Tuscaloosa. Taking home the Heisman Trophy and building a college football Hall of Fame worthy resume as well. But it’s his size not his accolades that make him unique in this year’s draft. He stands at 5-foot-10 and just under 200 pounds, making him one of the shortest and lightest QBs potentially going at the top of the draft in decades. So today, Pete Thamel joins us to break down whether or not Young can measure up to the job in front of him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.9	Pete Damell, the NFL draft is happening Thursday and all signs point to the Carolina Panthers
0:46.8	selecting Alabama quarterback Bryce Young with the number one pick.
0:51.0	What makes this an outlier with Bryce?
0:53.5	Well, it's interesting.
0:56.0	If you had asked me a year ago, going in and said, okay, in the 2023 draft, who is going
1:02.9	to be the number one pick?
1:04.3	I would have said, the smart money is not on Bryce Young because he falls outside of the
1:10.2	NFL's preferred size prototypes.
1:13.3	Bryce Young is five foot 10 and one eighth of an inch, and he waited at the combine at
1:19.4	204 pounds.
1:20.4	He played it Alabama probably around 190 pounds.
1:24.3	Give or take a rack of dream land ribs.
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