Deshaun Watson is the best quarterback entering the 2017 NFL draft right now. This is a good, yet confusing thing. It’s good because he was great in college, but it’s confusing because it’s entirely possible that he has maxed out his potential. Traditionally, it is difficult to take someone with this unique skill set and toss him out into the murky world of NFL schemes.
Watson has the best understanding of the position out of his colleagues. All of the subtleties of quarterback play are here: pocket presence, anticipation, recognition, ball placement, and scrambling ability. His contemporaries maybe better at one of these individual components than him, but overall, he’s far and away the best at being an actual quarterback instead of just being a young man with an arm.