Smith or Rodgers, franchise QB's?
.After spending the last several weeks pouring over information, mock draft, opinions, stats, etc it has become clear to be that neither Smith or Rodgers can be considered franchise QB's heading into the draft.
They are both talented and surely deserve being selected high come draft day but the teams that do so take a big risk that could set a franchise back several years rather then helping them make the next step.
The way I currently have them graded compared to the top QB's from last year lead me to believe that Smith or Rodgers as their current ability would not have been draft until late round 1 or even round 2.
Manning
Rivers
Roethlisberger
Losman
Those 4 I had graded higher then both Rodgers and Smith are right now. Big Ben went at #11 and Losman at #22 and Smith and Rodgers would have went much lower then these 4.
Just some food for thought in regards to the talent level of these QB's and as reports start coming out you will see that these 2 guys aren't as good as their workouts have shown.