NFL Draft: Why Trent Dilfer thinks this quarterback class is like ice cream

Trent Dilfer plays catch on the field before an NFL game between the Titans and the Jets on Dec. 17, 2012, in Nashville, Tenn. Photo Credit: AP / Wade PayneTrent Dilfer is a former NFL quarterback, so of course he’d enjoy watching the finer points of good quarterback play.

As a regular person, Dilfer also enjoys the normal things in life. Like ice cream.

“I personally don’t like Rocky Road that much,” he said via phone Tuesday, “but I love mint chip.”

At first glance, football and ice cream have very little in common. But when Dilfer, a 13-year NFL veteran and former ESPN analyst, was asked to break down the quarterback class in Thursday’s NFL draft, the two otherwise unrelated things…