This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today.

My good friend Nate Tyson, how you doing, buddy? Good. The silly season full swing now. So this is great. Hey, welcome. Welcome. We got through the free agency. You got through that silly season. Now it's a draft season for you, buddy. It's one of those things where I tried to plan it all out. I knew I wanted to do free agency and then just wait to start the draft stuff. And it's almost unfolded in this natural way where the quarterback conversations have taken off over the last few days right as we were about to do this. And as I was watching it happen, I was like, yes, I have my finger on the pulse. I know what we should be doing. So that's what we're doing today. It is quarterback day. And I knew I wanted to do this with you. You've been studying these guys for months and you've been looking at them for Bleacher Report and ranking them and everything else. So we're just going to do the top five quarterbacks. I think that that has been the established group.

We're not going to really dig into guys any later than that, especially with this quarterback class. I think that the guys that could go in the top 10, the guy's likely to go in the first round. That's the most interesting group. We're going to talk about those five guys. We're going to rank them. Your five, your top five quarterbacks, five to one is how we're going to do this. I think it's one of the more interesting quarterback classes, probably

in the history of the draft. I mean, this would be the first time, and I can't remember how long it would be one through three that we almost are guaranteed to get quarterbacks. There could be five of them in the top ten. And not only are these guys going to be drafted high because quarterbacks get pushed up

all the time.

We've talked about this a bunch.

This is a supremely gifted quarterback class.

It's guys that probably deserve to be drafted in the top 10.

I mean, you look at a guy like Trey Lance and we'll dig into this.

He's as physically gifted as some of the, any of the quarterbacks that have come along in the last like 10 years. Yeah. And he might be the third or fourth most talented quarterback in this entire class. So it really is a historically gifted group. And I cannot wait to dig into this. I think that this is after setting the table over the last two shows, this is the next step in how we're supposed to talk about this drive class. Yeah, as I've become more and more kind of like NFL central focus. Like I don't watch as much college football at all. So I'm not, I don't have a lot of exposure to a lot of guys. Of course, you know just as football fans. And so I started grading these guys. I had to get back into almost that scouting mindset and all of it. And usually I consider myself a fairly tough grader, especially on receivers. But like this quarterback class, so I'm like, you know, starting at the top. And I watch, you know, one after another and I have to make comparisons on these guys. And then just like, am I too nice? Like, did I just get too, like, older? And like, all these guys

look good now. Yeah, you're getting softer. Yeah. I got soft. And then I watched some of the other ones. I'm like, oh, no, no, no, this is just a rare class. Like, this class is incredible. Like, these, obviously the big four and then now we have the Mac Jones coming up. So really, it's becoming a five, a group of five. It's all five you can make arguments for that as your favorite guy. And I wouldn't, I mean, Trevor Lawrence is one thing. But the other guys, it's like there's a lot of fun stuff to watch with these guys, not just traits, but just also just how they approach the game. Totally. You see the intelligence with these guys and it's like the toughness and all these other

traits.

Usually when you watch some guy that's getting projected as a first rounder, it's just, oh, he's got some arm, but he doesn't know where he's looking. He doesn't know how to operate. He doesn't have a lot of, I mean, so like the negatives on these guys, it's like, okay, but that's workable. You know, oh, he hangs a little too long.

That's workable.

Oh, he doesn't have a lot of starts.

Yeah, but on those starts I. You know, oh, he hangs a little too long. That's workable.

Oh, he doesn't have a lot of starts.

Yeah, but on those starts I did play, it looks really good. You know, it's like, okay, all these guys, their past to success is like so broad as opposed to like this guy is getting the right situation. He can't play right away. He's going to be a project. it's like okay all the guys that are quote unquote maybe unquote, maybe even more project. It's like this guy is an easy first round grade. I think that's the best way to put it. You usually have that half round, maybe in a full round inflation. You might have a second round grade on a quarterback, but you take him at the end of the first just because of the quarterback position. All these guys, or at least the first four in my head, easy first round grades, like lottery

pick grades, which is, it's crazy for me. So really cool. And honestly, we're going to talk

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