This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

Today's Friday, April 1st.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today is my good friend Nate Tyson. Nate, how you doing, buddy? I'm doing well. I really feel like these discussions we're about to have the next couple weeks is like I've been frozen in time for four months. And then finally you caught up and you're unfreezing me, you know, like in a sci-fi movie where I'm traveling like years. You're Hans Solo. We're getting you out of the, the kryptonite.

It was the carbon. Carbonite. Carbonite. Carbonite. Carbonite. My nerd card just lit on fire. That was a shocking scene for me when I was nine years old. Oh, yeah. It's intense. Oh, man. Yeah. One of my best memories ever with my dad is they re-released those in like 97, I think.

And that's when they started, George Lucas started tweaking it, like some of the edits. And at the time, I didn't know it. Even my dad after he saw Return of the Jedi, he's like, they changed shit. I was like, I didn't know my dad like the Star Wars movies that much, but even that eight years old. My dad definitely did. So it was a very big part of my childhood.

All right. That's funny.

So. I didn't know my dad liked the Star Wars movies that much, but even at eight years old, I knew. My dad definitely did. So it was a very big part of my childhood. All right. That's funny. So what you're referring to is you have been deep in the draft takes for months with the work that you've been doing for Bleacher Report. I am coming very late to mine. So we're going to talk about the quarterbacks today. We pushed it back a little bit. And I do think that that timeline is interesting, especially in regard to this position and the conversation we're having about it here in the lead up to the draft. And we're going to get into that. So we're going to talk about the top five guys today. You guys know who they are at this point, right. Kenny Pickett, Malik Willis, Desmond Ritter, Matt Corral, Sam, Howe.

Those are the guys that we're going to talk about today. The guys that, let's say, are in first round consideration. We're going to go through scouting reports. Some of the things you could talk yourself into, some of the things that are drawbacks to each one of these guys. And we're just going to go through them one by one. But I wanted to start with kind of a broader conversation about this quarterback

class because the lifespan of a quarterback class narrative is always worth watching to me.

So for the last year, right, since we had this conversation last year, because the way we see

a specific quarterback class is informed about what the next one is going to look like because you want to get yours in the right time. Same as next year. There are guys at the top

of the draft that are going to be worth drafting. The whole conversation around this group was

it's not good. It's not a good group. There aren't that many high-end quarterback talents.

This is what we were saying all fall, even as Kenny Pickett was playing

pretty well. And then, for whatever reason, we seem to get collective amnesia as a football

media the month or six weeks before the draft as these guys inevitably get pushed up the draft.

And this is a real phenomenon, not just in the way that we talk about it, but people

within teams talk about this. How inevitably, because there's desperation and because there's

scarcity, you're going to see these guys pushed up the draft and you're going to have

rationalizations that don't seem to make a lot of sense. Because when I was watching all these

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