Clemson football has more NFL quarterback talent than most NFL teams do.
Trevor Lawrence, D.J. Uiagalelei and Taisun Phommachanh are a college NFL quarterback room.
This is why Clemson football is better than most teams in college football. They have the No. 1 overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft in Lawrence, the next Clemson star quarterback in Uiagalelei and Phommachanh, who would start at most Power 5 teams in the country. We haven’t seen this much quarterback talent since the first installment of The U back in the early 1980s. It’s amazing.
Does Clemson have three future NFL starting quarterbacks on its roster?
Can you imagine how Dabo Swinney feels about this? He must feel like Mark Richt, Earl Morrall or god forbid, Kyle Vanderwende gracing the presence of Jim Kelly, Vinny Testaverde and Bernie Kosar in that iconic 1982 Miami Hurricanes quarterback team photo. There is too much greatness in that one black and white photo for our brains to fully process. This is Clemson now.
The big key here is the comparisons. Lawrence is Kelly because, duh. We believe DJ U can be Testaverde, have a great Clemson career and win a Heisman Trophy. But the real question is if Phommachanh can be the equivalent of Kosar. All three signal-callers are NFL quarterbacking royalty, but there is a reason the Cleveland Browns are forever chasing the Ghost of Bernie Kosar.
We’ve seen Phommachanh play the last two weeks and he has shown signs of something interesting now in his second year with the program. Will he stick at Clemson? Or will he transfer like Chase Brice did who is now the starting quarterback at Duke?
You better believe some NFL teams are jealous of this 2020 Clemson quarterback room. It’s better than what the Jacksonville Jaguars have, which is why Lawrence will probably go to that team next year. It might be better than what the Carolina Panthers, the Chicago Bears, the Los Angeles Chargers, the New York Jets or the Washington Football Team even have.
Time will tell if this trio becomes 1/11 of the starting quarterbacks in the NFL in the 2020s.
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