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I didn't think of McKee as being NFL-ready after what would be less than 20 games as a starter assuming he plays them all.

Mills was drafted after how many games?

I know it was a rhetorical question, but to your point, Mills started a total of only 11 games at Stanford, and 5 of them were during the abbreviated Covid season which many NFL evaluators discounted given all the opt outs, quarantines and other unusual circumstances that year.

After five games last year McKee had completed two thirds of his passes with 11 touchdowns and no interceptions and was generating real draft buzz amid a weak QB class. If he hadn't tailed off and gotten injured he would have been projected pretty well given his physical attributes, pedigree and safe off-field profile. NFL also teams understand that he was playing behind a weak OL line, had no rushing game to take pressure off, and lost his top wide receivers to injury for most of the season.

[DC 86]

I didn't think of McKee as being NFL-ready after what would be less than 20 games as a starter assuming he plays them all.

Mills was drafted after how many games?

I know it was a rhetorical question, but to your point, Mills started a total of only 11 games at Stanford, and 5 of them were during the abbreviated Covid season which many NFL evaluators discounted given all the opt outs, quarantines and other unusual circumstances that year.

After five games last year McKee had completed two thirds of his passes with 11 touchdowns and no interceptions and was generating real draft buzz amid a weak QB class. If he hadn't tailed off and gotten injured he would have been projected pretty well given his physical attributes, pedigree and safe off-field profile. NFL also teams understand that he was playing behind a weak OL line, had no rushing game to take pressure off, and lost his top wide receivers to injury for most of the season.