Drafting a quarterback early is so risky
With the Las Vegas Raiders sitting at 2-6 the rest of the 2024 season will likely be about the future and that future begins at quarterback.
The Raiders will be among the teams most interested in drafting a quarterback in 2025. Their future will be clouded until they can finally answer their need at the position.
But it’s not easy to do and even if the Raiders do draft a quarterback early in the 2025 draft there are no guarantees it will work out.
Quarterbacks are draft crap shoot and that’s proven almost every year as highly-picked quarterbacks fail to pan put.
We got another reminder of that Tuesday when the Indianapolis Colts decided to bench second-year quarterback Anthony Richardson in favor of veteran Joe Flacco.
A QB change for the Colts: Indianapolis is benching former first-round pick Anthony Richardson and turning to veteran Joe Flacco, sources tell @FowlerESPN and me. Coaches met this morning and made the seismic organizational decision to change QBs. pic.twitter.com/uqANJwOwr4
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 29, 2024
Richardson was the No. 5 overall draft pick in 2-223. He is the second quarterback taken in the first round last year to be benched this season, joining No. 1 overall pick Bryce Young of the Carolina Panthers.
So for every C.J. Stroud, there’s, at least, one highly drafted quarterback who busts.
Now, it’s not a certainty that Richardson and Young will be busts, but the fact that they both have been benched so early in their careers, is definitely a warning sign.
So, as the Raiders scout the likes of Shedeur Sanders, Cam Ward and Quinn Ewers, they have navigate the reality that there are no guarantees they will solve the quarterback problem with the pick.
