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I.E. Manning and Leaf. The two prospects were head to head and the debate wasn’t settled until Indy made the pick. People like to assume that Manning is the surefire choice while Leaf is “just another good prospect”.
More recently people always bring up the pro day throw as the “only reason” Zach Wilson went no 2 in the draft. In reality his 2020 season, which played well to his strengths, has placed him on #2 on most mock drafts by January 2021.
2017 QB class: the class itself was considered a weak one at the time of the draft and most people weren’t that high on Mahomes/Watson. A good amount of people considered Mahomes at 10th a reach and Sean Payton admittedly thought 11th was high enough of a pick to get him.
“Best prospect since Julio”: AJ Green and Julio Jones were essentially 1a and 1b that draft and the sentiments on who was better was 50-50.