NFL Mock Draft 2023, Botch Job: Every team screws up its first-round pick
NFL Mock Draft 2023: Every team screws up its first-round pick
Scouting Report. Pick Analysis. IDL. Georgia. Jalen Carter. player. 3. 32
Even if we’re overlooking the off-field concerns with Jalen Carter — which we definitely should not be — the Cardinals taking him with the No. 3 overall pick would be an absolute mistake for the new regime in Arizona.
With the Panthers trading up to No. 1 and the Texans looking like a wild card, there should be a hot market for the No. 3 pick among teams that are trying to get into the mix for this quarterback class and, more importantly, jump ahead of the Colts at No. 4.
While we aren’t taking these phone calls, the quarterback class combined with needs around the league makes it hard to believe that there won’t be good trade offers on the table for the Cardinals. As such, if Arizona doesn’t trade out of this pick to start building capital for the future, it’s a misfire on their part.
Pick Analysis. 4. Will Levis. player. 46. Scouting Report. QB. Kentucky
Jim Irsay pulling the levers for the Indianapolis Colts always leaves them with an unpredictable aura, but that’s especially true with the franchise in the quarterback market for the 2023 draft. And it just feels all too perfect that they would ignore Bryce Young because he’s too small and ignore C.J. Stroud for not having elite tools in order to draft an alpha male with worse projectable quarterback play like Will Levis.
Levis could very well work out in the NFL. But we have one year in college where he produced like a top quarterback prospect would and, as his situation at Kentucky worsened, he failed to elevate the team around him. Moreover, this is a guy who couldn’t beat out Sean Clifford at Penn State, which is how he ended up in Lexington.
Taking Levis over any of the other Top 4 quarterback prospects would be a mistake, but it’s one the Colts could conceivably make.