Carson Wentz and the NFL Draft

Mon Feb 01, 2016 3:13 pm

Sounds like former NDSU QB Carson Wentz had a great week down at the Senior Bowl and really impressed a lot of scouts. It sounds likely that he could be the first QB to go in the draft and possibly even as high as the #2 overall pick in the draft to Cleveland. I believe the highest a FCS player has ever been drafted was Steve McNair from Alcorn State, who went #3 overall to the Houston Oilers.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/draft2016/inside ... enior-bowl

WIU0812 · Mon Feb 01, 2016 4:47 pm

Hoping he is drafted later and bears pick him as a future QB in 2 or 3 years. Browns will ruin him I bet.

letsgonecks · Mon Feb 01, 2016 5:43 pm

WIU0812 wrote:Hoping he is drafted later and bears pick him as a future QB in 2 or 3 years. Browns will ruin him I bet.

I want to root for him, so hopefully he doesn't go to the Bears. And yeah, Browns aren't a good place for anyone

Mon Feb 01, 2016 7:26 pm

I was hoping the same thing...Bears pick him up in round 2-3, put him behind Cutler for a year or two then let the old man go, but I'm pretty sure we've been priced out of the market. He'll likely go in the first half of the first round and we can't use a first round pick on a qb, not this year.

sealhall74 · Mon Feb 01, 2016 7:57 pm

I showed up at FCS Championship game an hour early and spent most of it just watching him in warmups. Uncanny accuracy and his throwing motion was so fluid, almost effortless. He was hitting receivers spot on that day. No injury rust at all.

Mon Feb 01, 2016 9:33 pm

sealhall74 wrote:I showed up at FCS Championship game an hour early and spent most of it just watching him in warmups. Uncanny accuracy and his throwing motion was so fluid, almost effortless. He was hitting receivers spot on that day. No injury rust at all.

And apparently he's only gotten better. He plays in a more nfl-style offense rather than one where the QB puts up huge numbers (but then often flames out in the NFL), and he is very good at looking at all of his routes rather than locking into one receiver and sticking with him.

BobLovely · Tue Feb 02, 2016 8:46 pm

ST_Lawson wrote:
sealhall74 wrote:I showed up at FCS Championship game an hour early and spent most of it just watching him in warmups. Uncanny accuracy and his throwing motion was so fluid, almost effortless. He was hitting receivers spot on that day. No injury rust at all.
And apparently he's only gotten better. He plays in a more nfl-style offense rather than one where the QB puts up huge numbers (but then often flames out in the NFL), and he is very good at looking at all of his routes rather than locking into one receiver and sticking with him.

Carson is very good with his reads and check downs and he is patient and cool under fire. Reportedly, the Cowboys are very interested. They need a replacement for Tony Romo...

Bob

Tue Feb 02, 2016 9:26 pm

Yea, just depends on who Cleveland picks. They're at #2 and need a QB. Goff and Lynch are also possibilities.
Dallas is at #4 currently.

Thu Apr 28, 2016 9:46 pm

Hadn't updated this in a while, but for those of you who weren't paying attention, in the meantime the Rams traded up to #1 and took QB Jared Goff from UCLA and the Eagles traded up to #2 and took Carson Wentz.

This broke the record for the highest I-AA/FCS player taken in the draft (beating the previous best of Steve McNair being taken at #3 out of Alcorn State).

I'm just glad he didn't end up in the QB "death pit" of Cleveland. I'm not generally big on the Eagles, but I'll root for Wentz to do well whenever he's playing against someone other than the Bears. It sounds like they will likely have Wentz be the backup for the first year, barring injury, give him time to learn the playbook and get up to "NFL speed" and then have him take over his second year as their "franchise QB".

Thu Apr 28, 2016 9:51 pm

Another player of some interest to some of you/us is Ole Miss WR Laquon Treadwell, who just went at #23 overall in the first round to the Vikings.
Some of you may remember that Treadwell (who skipped his SR year to go to the NFL) is from Crete-Monee HS outside of Chicago, and was HS teammates and friends with our own Lance Lenoir.

Here's Laquon and Lance from a training camp earlier this spring with NFL Hall of Famer Cris Carter:
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