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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Here's the funny thing - I actually think Mayfield was the safe choice. Darnold and even Rosen were the risks, IMO.
His style of play is more reckless, to be sure, but in this era it will also work to put up 24 points with relative ease if you have enough weapons for him to work with. He's not going to turtle up and put too much pressure on your defense. He's also not going to just say "eh, **** it - football ain't my thing" and start jaking matters.
Mayfields floor kinda looked to me like Jay Cutler with less raw arm strength. And Cutler is polarizing, but Cutler could produce. Give Cutler better body language and he wouldn't be seen as nearly the butt**** he is today.
Darnold's floor, OTOH, is absolutely Matt Cassel. He's a programmed quarterback and if the programming doesn't come together, he's nothing. Josh Rosen's floor is Jay Schroeder.
To me, Mayfield was the safest of the early QBs and I think Darnold has the highest ceiling. Time will tell.
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Darnold was a turnover machine in college despite a roster full of 5-star talent. Same goes for Deshaun at Clemson. Both of them play like Favre but they have about half the arm strength of Favre.