Watch: Ugly accuracy contest among Mayfield, Allen and Darnold ends with clear winner
The 2018 NFL draft will be remembered for its quarterbacks.
Five signal-callers went in the first round, each hoping to take over its new franchise.
Chances are that we won’t know who really “won” the draft for several years.
Will Baker Mayfield replicate his Heisman Trophy success in Cleveland, or will he be another Johnny Manziel?
Is Sam Darnold finally the franchise quarterback Jets fans have longed for since Joe Namath?
Did nine other teams really make a mistake passing on Josh Rosen?
Will Josh Allen be the next Jim Kelly in Buffalo?
Can Lamar Jackson win the starting job from Joe Flacco in Baltimore?
Each guy has his pluses and minuses — even heading into draft night, there wasn’t a consensus on who would be the best.
Well, with training camps still a month away, we have our first very limited evaluation.
After a pseudo competition, it looks like the Bills chose wisely with Allen.
The big knock on the Wyoming quarterback was accuracy — kind of important for a quarterback.
Allen’s completion rate in college was an ugly 56.2 percent, but the Buffalo front office saw visions of the next Carson Wentz and chose him seventh overall.
The NFL Players Association recently had its 2018 Rookie Premiere, and the quarterbacks took aim to see who was the most accurate.
The overall performance by the rookie class was nothing to write home about, but in the end Allen emerged as the victor.
Maybe it’s a sign that concerns about his accuracy are overblown.
Considering Buffalo gave up their first-rounder and two second-round picks to move up in the draft to get Allen, they’d better hope so.
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