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Made by the Draft, Broken by the System: The Growing Generation of Lost QBs

NFL teams are paying kings' ransoms for young quarterbacks, and why not? In today's NFL, a good young signal-caller can secure the future of a team—and a general manager—for a decade.

The Los Angeles Rams and Philadelphia Eagles gave up breathtaking draft-pick value for the rights to draft Jared Goff and Carson Wentz, respectively. Yet there was more discussion about whether Ezekiel Elliott was worth drafting No. 4 overall than whether Goff was worth two first-, second- and third-round picks.

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