Which current NFL quarterbacks are worth acquiring for the #1 pick?
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🗓️ 25 May 2026
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Cognitive dissonance in the way we talk about Mike Tomlin and Nick Sirianni? Top-five football heartbreaks? The worst QB the Raiders would've been willing to acquire in exchange for this year's number one pick? Yup, it's another edition of The Athletic Football Show's mailbag. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen tackle those questions, and more, on this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. It's another mailbag Monday here in the offseason. I am actually on vacation when you guys are going to be listening to this. Sincerely appreciate everyone holding down the fort while I'm gone. Still having three shows a week coming your guys away, kicking things off with the mailbag. Today, a lot of really good questions, a lot of really good fun. |
| 0:21.1 | Offseason questions. |
| 0:22.4 | Just me and Derek. |
| 0:23.5 | Sincerely appreciate everyone |
| 0:24.8 | who spent the time to send these in. |
| 0:27.2 | The reason we do them is because we love the questions so much. |
| 0:30.2 | So thank you very much to everyone who participated. |
| 0:32.7 | For now, let's get to it. |
| 0:34.1 | Another Mailbag Monday here on the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:46.4 | Music Let's get to it. Another Mailbag Monday here on the Athletic Football Show. It's another Mailbag Monday here on the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:50.9 | These will be happening when we're on vacation, but it's always good to keep doing them over the course of the offseason. I really enjoyed the set of questions that we had for this one and the next mailbag. So excited to dig into these. I'm going to read the questions today. Belor's having some internet issues. So let's start with Tristan. He said recently there's been some discussion about what constitutes a successful number one overall pick specifically robert saying the pick doesn't need to turn into an MVP to be a successful |
| 1:15.6 | pick with that in mind what is the line for current NFL quarterbacks who would be worth |
| 1:20.5 | straight up trading for the number one overall pick specifically which quarterbacks would the |
| 1:25.7 | raiders have traded the number one overall pick for this year straight up? So when you say straight up, like, you have to account for age and all that stuff, right? Like I think like, Jared Goff quality wise, I think clears that bar, but he's 32 and you're paying him what you're paying him. Like I think at that point, like you would want more of a runway for your number one overall pick, right? |
| 1:45.4 | So to me, the answer is probably like Trevor Lawrence. |
| 1:47.7 | Like I would straight up trade the number one overall pick for Trevor. |
| 1:53.7 | That's interesting. |
| 1:55.1 | Okay. |
| 1:55.5 | So you would. |
| 1:58.3 | You would rather have Fernando Mendoza right now than Trevor Lawrence. |
| 2:02.3 | No, no, other way around. |
| 2:03.2 | I would rather have Trevor Lawrence than the mystery box of Fernando Mendoza. |
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