ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr. doesn’t quite understand it either.
When the NFL draft is held next week in Chicago, the Southeastern Conference is expected to have high-profile picks at nearly every position but the one that gets talked about the most: quarterback.
Although Peyton Manning just won his final Super Bowl and Cam Newton is the reigning league MVP, former Florida quarterbacks Jacoby Brissett of North Carolina State and Jeff Driskel of Louisiana Tech could conceivably be taken before or around the same time as Arkansas’ Brandon Allen and Mississippi State’s Dak Prescott.
“Good question,” Kiper said Tuesday about the conference’s perceived decline of top-level players at the position before noting that Alabama won the national championship with a Florida State transfer, Jake Coker.