If the Los Angeles Rams are going to target a quarterback early in next year’s draft, as many people expect them to, the cautionary tales go back as far as when they were recruited as high school graduates to some of the NFL’s most recent first round picks. Not only could development be getting stunted in college over the past five years, but the league hasn’t done themselves any favors by using early first round picks on projects and passers who never learned how to read a defense.
Of the nine quarterbacks drafted in the first round between 2021 and 2023, five of them are already on their third teams.