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Certainly very interesting to see where people are slotting McKee but nobody has any idea yet on QBs for next year. For fun I just looked at a mock draft a year ago that had Sam Howell, JT Daniels, Spencer Rattler, and Kedon Slovis in the first round. In real life, Howell went in the fifth round and the other three lost their college jobs and transferred. Todd McShay had Slovis going #2 overall, Howell #7, Rattler #11, Malik Willis #15, and Desmond Ridder #16. Two years ago McShay had Trevor Lawrence, Justin Fields, and Trey Lance correctly pegged as going early but Zach Wilson and Mac Jones of course came out of nowhere. Three years ago the preseason mock drafts knew Tua Tagovailoa and Justin Herbert were coming, but the #1 overall pick (Joe Burrow) was nowhere on radars whereas Nate Stanley made McShay's way-too-early mock draft first round before going in the seventh round a year later.

This stuff is fun but hard. Definitely way-too-early to know McKee's stock. Personally, maybe I'm being too glib about this but I feel like he is almost equally likely to go anywhere between #1 overall and #140. If he's not supposed to go top 90 or so maybe he comes back.

The range of outcomes for McKee in particular is immense. My only point in all this, in response to posts that didn't include him at all as a draft prospect, is that he's clearly on NFL teams' radars, now it's up to him and to good fortune (injury and otherwise). One never knows; Costello was properly projected as a likely draft choice (possibly day one or two) until he was injured, transferred and ultimately was benched. Meanwhile, nobody projected Solomon Thomas as third overall pick until it happened.

[DC 86]

Certainly very interesting to see where people are slotting McKee but nobody has any idea yet on QBs for next year. For fun I just looked at a mock draft a year ago that had Sam Howell, JT Daniels, Spencer Rattler, and Kedon Slovis in the first round. In real life, Howell went in the fifth round and the other three lost their college jobs and transferred. Todd McShay had Slovis going #2 overall, Howell #7, Rattler #11, Malik Willis #15, and Desmond Ridder #16. Two years ago McShay had Trevor Lawrence, Justin Fields, and Trey Lance correctly pegged as going early but Zach Wilson and Mac Jones of course came out of nowhere. Three years ago the preseason mock drafts knew Tua Tagovailoa and Justin Herbert were coming, but the #1 overall pick (Joe Burrow) was nowhere on radars whereas Nate Stanley made McShay's way-too-early mock draft first round before going in the seventh round a year later.

This stuff is fun but hard. Definitely way-too-early to know McKee's stock. Personally, maybe I'm being too glib about this but I feel like he is almost equally likely to go anywhere between #1 overall and #140. If he's not supposed to go top 90 or so maybe he comes back.

The range of outcomes for McKee in particular is immense. My only point in all this, in response to posts that didn't include him at all as a draft prospect, is that he's clearly on NFL teams' radars, now it's up to him and to good fortune (injury and otherwise). One never knows; Costello was properly projected as a likely draft choice (possibly day one or two) until he was injured, transferred and ultimately was benched. Meanwhile, nobody projected Solomon Thomas as third overall pick until it happened.