After former Bear Jared Goff was taken first overall in the 2016 NFL draft, Cal football’s representation at Thursday’s 2017 edition was bound to take a hit. That’s still the case, but the rising opinion of quarterback Davis Webb among NFL personnel is giving the Bears another shot at having a signal-caller taken early in the draft, and quite possibly in the first round once again.
Still, Webb certainly doesn’t fit the bill of most highly drafted quarterbacks. In his freshman year at Texas Tech, he was in a season-long battle with Baker Mayfield for the starter position.