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r/NFL from 5 years ago: Redditors predict where the 2018 draft class will be in 5 years (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by LAZYTOWWWWWN@alien.top to c/nfl@nfl.community

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[–] ModernPoultry@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Everyone was down on the big tall project qbs because of guys like Paxton Lynch and Osweiler.

And the league at the time was dominated by pocket passer game tacticians in the twilights of their careers (Brady, Brees, Ben, Rivers, and even guys like Matty Ice to some extent). The new game manager pocket passers were killing it too with Goff looking great with McVay in LA.

QB’s like Allen, Mahomes, and Lamar were so counter culture to what people considered a successful looking QB.

Fans wanted traditional pocket passer / supposed high IQ build which Rosen fit