Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and Frank Schwab discuss if Caleb Williams and Jayden Daniels are already the best 1-2 QB draft in NFL history. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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Let’s talk about Caleb because I wanna post, post something to you that I wrote about for winners and losers.
Because during that game, I’d, I’d watch Caleb play really, really well.
The touchdowns to Keenan Allen were superb.
Like he, he really looked in control of the game.
He looked like the guy who is finally figuring out how to harness his improvisational skills.
And then I’m watching Jay Daniels play really well.
We’ve watched him play well all season and I thought there has to be a AAA class where quarterbacks got drafted 12 and both guys were good, right?
Like you just think like that has happened in NFL history.
I know it hasn’t happened lately.
It has never happened any draft where the quarterbacks go for the first pick and the second pick.
It has never worked out where bo both guys are good.
The best one, you gotta go all the way back to like 1971 where Archie Manning and Jim Plunkett were the first two picks even.
That is kind of like, uh I guess already six games in, I can tell you that I believe Caleb Williams and Jaden Daniels are the best quarterbacks to go 12 in an NFL draft ever, ever.
Like, if you look at the history, I don’t think that’s an outrageous claim.
We’re getting guys drafted 12 and maybe even three and even further down in the first round with the quarterbacks, this quarterback class is gonna be really, really good and it’s led at the top by two guys who I already think are like top 12 ish quarterbacks in the NFL.
That, that’s how good they’ve been right away.
It’s alarming too because their college experiences were so different.
Caleb was such a, you know, loud and prospect through the entirety of his career.
Jayden had one good year.
But to your point, there’s sort of proof in the conversation because as great as Jayden is right now, we’re not sitting here destroying the Bears for not drafting Jayden Daniels.
That’s significant, right?
The fact that it’s like, hey, Jaden is great.
Washington’s great.
They’re doing it great.
We have, look, we have turned around and said, why aren’t the Bears doing as much with Caleb?
But we have not yet had the conversation.
Well, did, did the Bears draft the wrong guy because they didn’t like this is what we should all be rooting for.
This is best for the league.
This is what’s best for all these teams like for 12 to work out this way is kind of an amazing thing.
It brings you a beacon of hope, by the way real quick who he thinks it wins.
Offensive rookie of the year because I think it’s a conversation now, the hype for Jaden, it’s almost like, you know, when you, when you’ve got a jury trial and you got to move it somewhere else, I don’t think you can undo the publicity that we’ve seen for Jaden Daniels to this point.
Like, I don’t think you can change people’s minds.
II, I think that we’re gonna look back in December that the September in the NFL seems so far away in December.
Like that stuff like that really happened.
That I think Caleb’s gonna get a lot of late moment.
I think it’s gonna be good.
I think it’s gonna be, we’re gonna get to the end of December and there’s gonna be an actual argument of like, which guy are these voters gonna vote for?
Because both are deserving.