Daniel Jeremiah says ‘supremely talented’ Bryce Young has best QB tape in 2023 NFL Draft
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Count NFL Network’s Daniel Jeremiah among the experts who think Alabama’s Bryce Young is a good fit for the Panthers with the first overall pick.
Jeremiah — a former professional scout for the Philadelphia Eagles and Baltimore Ravens — thinks the quarterback size narratives surrounding Carolina head coach Frank Reich are unfair. Although Reich has mostly worked with tall, physically imposing signal-callers, Jeremiah has frequently pushed back at the analytical typecasting that others have made with the head coach’s preferences.
“I think sometimes we get hung up on (head coaches) all have a type and this is the player that they’ve had in the past — they’ve had a similar guy,” Jeremiah said Thursday during a call with national media. “(Reich) has not had a smaller quarterback. My push back to that was, number one, I don’t know that he was in the position to choose who their quarterbacks were, and they never had an opportunity to select an ultra-ultra-talented undersized quarterback.”
To Jeremiah, Young is that ultra talent.
Young ranks No. 1 on Jeremiah’s most recent big board. The 2021 Heisman trophy winner is also the top pick for the Panthers in Jeremiah’s latest mock draft.
When Jeremiah weighs Young’s game against the likes of Ohio State’s C.J. Stroud, Florida’s Anthony Richardson and Kentucky’s Will Levis, size doesn’t matter. It’s all about the tape for the draft analyst.
“The Bryce Youngs don’t come around very often, where you get somebody that doesn’t fit all the specs but is supremely talented,” Jeremiah said. “To me, I just thought he has the best tape of anybody in this class. I thought it was clear-cut. Just with everything he does on-schedule, off-schedule, accuracy, poise, ball placement, play-making ability, being great in those big clutch moments late in games, managing games. All that stuff is off the charts.”
Jeremiah also thinks that if size was taken out of the equation, Young would have a comparable draft outlook to 2020 first overall pick and Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow.
“If it was like a blind taste test, if you just read the notes on Bryce Young and didn’t look at how big he was and you read your notes on Joe Burrow, they would read almost identical,” Jeremiah said. “I think he is that type of a player. I think he is that type of a talent. You’re going to take the risk with him with the body type. It is what it is. It’s not ideal, but the rest of it is really, really good.”
This story was originally published April 21, 2023 at 5:30 AM with the headline "Daniel Jeremiah says ‘supremely talented’ Bryce Young has best QB tape in 2023 NFL Draft."
