J.J. McCarthy's Draft Prospects and NFL Potential Examined
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00:00When you use the odds and the conversation around JJ, I think he is the most pivotal
00:07piece because who takes him and where?
00:10Right now, the Minnesota Vikings are the favorite franchise to select JJ McCarthy DRS, but they
00:15currently have the 11th overall pick, and if he's a minus 280 favorite to be a top five
00:21selection, he's not falling all the way to 11 if you catch my drift.
00:25Yeah, you're going to have to move up here, no doubt about it, but also you are talking
00:28about one of those guys that was the high riser of the draft where we knew he was a
00:31good college quarterback and probably translated to the NFL, but that translated to a possible
00:36top five pick or top 15 pick.
00:38We didn't know, but everybody's loved to have all season workouts, get him in front of the
00:41chalkboard, and it makes sense, and over the past couple of days here, Ben, we had Boomer
00:44Esiason and Phil Simms on, and the questions come up here is how do we evaluate JJ McCarthy?
00:49Because if you just put him in a room, he's going to win you over.
00:52If you ask any of the teammates, and we quite frankly had a couple of his teammates on here
00:55on the early line, they're like, man, you'd run through a brick wall for this guy.
00:59He's the consummate winner, and it's also, he's not like a sixth year senior through
01:02COVID where he's 25 years old coming in.
01:05He's a young guy, which means you're going to get maybe 15 years out of this guy, but
01:08the questions come up is most of the times we look at quarterbacks coming through college,
01:12the Caleb Williams, like, did you see the numbers they put up?
01:144,500 passing yards, 45 touchdown passes.
01:18You don't get that from JJ McCarthy.
01:19It's more measured like I play within the system that my coach gives us with the best
01:23chance to win.
01:24I can throw it a lot, but they didn't ask me to do that at Michigan.
01:27So the questions are, how does he translate into the NFL when, Ben, you can't throw for
01:31150 yard games and try to win.
01:33That's what Justin Fields did in Chicago, and he's no longer playing for Chicago at
01:37this point.
01:38So that's the question.