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Even if you don't use it you can carry it over.

Most of them are. Pickett is the age of a lot of kids coming out of grad school. He always looked very mediocre until he was a lot older and a lot more experienced than his competition. Huge red flag.

Mentality wise, there's a comparison to be made there.

Agreed. What I like about Howell is what can't be measured. The guy is always even keel and doesn't get rattled or discouraged. He does whatever he has to do to give his team a chance. He almost never ran before this year. He turned into a runner this year out of necessity. Howell just find a way to get it done. No, he might not always win but you oftentimes find yourself watching a UNC game and realizing... damn, without this Howell dude UNC would just be getting blasted.

Burrow was running for his life last year. Still went to the SB.

Plus 11 on the ground = 35

Someone is going to get a steal. Probably the Steelers.

His nature. People are either calm, cool, and collected in pressure situations or they're not. I firmly believe that isn't a coachable trait. You have it or you don't.

Except Pitt didn't ditch a leather football offense for a brand new modern offense like LSU did.

Howell had one of the worst college OLs I've seen in recent years this year and only one legit receiving target. It's real obvious when these analysts have only watched games from this season. Of course he was one read and bolt. He had to be.

It literally just happened this season. A career mediocre college QB came back as the oldest guy on the field now surrounded by an above average college team in a down ACC and it all combined to make him look like something that he's not. It's an illusion. Someone is gonna take the bait and way overdraft the guy. It's probably gonna be us.

Yep. So let someone else fall into the trap of recency bias and overlook all those factors he had going for him this year and way overdraft him. He's still the same mediocre guy. He didn't change, the situation did.

Darnold sucks. You gotta give up. I said before we traded for him that he has a fatal flaw. He's a panicker. You can't fix panic. It'll always rear it's ugly head.

But we can. How did he play when he wasn't the oldest guy on the field and wasn't surrounded by an above average veteran team? Oh wee mayne. Without an extra year of eligibility, Pickett is entering the draft as a senior coming off a 2400 yard 13 TD 9 INT season. He's going undrafted in last year's draft. Reality.

Much better supporting cast and he's as old as most second year NFL players. He's a literal man playing against boys. Swap Pickett and Howell and UNC probably wins 3 games and Pickett is a priority UDFA. Real talk. Pickett is the beneficiary of a better than average veteran team and an addition year of eligibility due to COVID.

You must have missed my opinions on a lot of former Heels prospects then.

He's gonna be the best QB out of this draft class.

We don't do smart things at QB so that's off the table

All signs are pointing this direction. I can get talked into Willis being worth a shot but we need to stay far away from Pickett.

I wonder who that "young player" might be?

Oh wee mayne. Trading huge resources, giving out a massive guaranteed contract, and alienating their current QB to take a swing on a guy with massive black clouds overhead just to watch him get indicted... that would be maximum Cleveland Browns poo right there.

Love is probably a flat out bust.

It's both. If you have a great QB in a bad situation you end up with the Rivers era Chargers or Stafford era Lions. But there's a reason why QB busts rarely bounce back elsewhere. I don't think they were "ruined" I just don't think they were ever up to the task to begin with.

Hell I'd give up an additional late rounder just to be off the hook on Darnold's contract.

Whoever this guy has as his #1 in hindsight everyone will realize should've been a UDFA.