Which college QBs could make a big jump in 2020? + Nicole Auerbach
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 6 May 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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The Athletic's Stewart Mandel & Bruce Feldman discuss Bruce's list of QBs that could make a Joe Burrow-like jump in 2020. The guys also welcome The Athletic's Nicole Auerbach to the show to shed light on the recent decision by the NCAA to allow college athletes to make money off their name, image & likeness. Plus, mailbag questions! Subscribe to The Athletic for 40% off: www.theathletic.com/theaudible
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible, presented by Drator Jove. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:22.9 | Bruce, there's just a lot going on around college sports right now, believe it or not, |
| 0:26.8 | even though sports overall are shut down. In a little bit, we're going to bring on our colleague |
| 0:32.7 | Nicole Auerbach to talk about some of the issues surrounding NIL and the big announcement by the NCAA last week |
| 0:38.7 | that at long last, athletes will be able to profit off their name image and likeness. |
| 0:44.4 | But I was really intrigued by a story you put up this week about the quarterback class coming back in college football for the 2021 draft. |
| 0:54.5 | Everybody talks about Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields and rightfully so. |
| 0:58.8 | But who after that? |
| 1:00.3 | And you talked to a whole bunch of people. |
| 1:01.9 | Tell us what you found out. |
| 1:04.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.7 | So look, what we've seen in Joe Burroughs, obviously the best example of this, of a guy who came from at least off the NFL radar. |
| 1:13.8 | I mean, he was a guy that if you ask people a year out, they probably would have said, |
| 1:17.2 | oh, fifth round pick or something along those lines. |
| 1:19.8 | But it was nobody thought Kyler Murray was going to be the first pick in the draft. |
| 1:23.0 | And that was the way it was in 2019. |
| 1:26.1 | Mitch Trubisky became a breakout quarterback who went second, |
| 1:29.3 | and Blake Bortles was the first quarterback picked in 2014. |
| 1:33.3 | So what I wanted to do was ask a lot of coaches, scouts, |
| 1:38.6 | people who analyze the draft, |
| 1:40.9 | and people who really work in the quarterback space. |
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