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The Washington Commanders are going through a massive reset these days.
They have a new ownership group headed by billionaire investor Josh Harris, a new coaching staff, which includes head coach Dan Quinn, the Dallas Cowboys’ former defensive coordinator, and offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury, and they’re about to have a new starting quarterback.
They will have the No. 2 pick in this month’s draft, and the question is which signal-caller will they take with that pick?
Daniel Jeremiah said on Twitter that based on Quinn’s success as the head coach of Matt Ryan’s Atlanta Falcons several years ago, Washington should draft Drake Maye from the University of North Carolina.
Here’s my draft thought of the day- Dan Quinn had tremendous success as HC with Matt Ryan as his QB. Which QB in this class would you compare to Matt Ryan coming out of BC? For me it’s Drake Maye.
— Daniel Jeremiah (@MoveTheSticks) April 3, 2024
Maye is one of the top-three QB prospects in this year’s draft class, along with Caleb Williams, who will presumably be the first player taken, and Jayden Daniels.
Maye threw for 3,608 yards and 24 touchdowns in 2023, and the previous season, he had 4,321 passing yards and 38 passing touchdowns.
He isn’t quite the dual-threat QB that Daniels is, and an argument could be made that because of Kingsbury, who coached Kyler Murray when he was the Arizona Cardinals’ head coach, Washington should instead take Daniels.
The Commanders made a couple of significant free-agent acquisitions in recent weeks, including dual-threat running back Austin Ekeler and future Hall-of-Fame linebacker Bobby Wagner.
They also brought in a veteran backup QB in Marcus Mariota, who was the No. 2 pick in 2015 and was once thought to have plenty of potential.
Perhaps it’s just a matter of time before the Commanders are a perennial playoff team again, just as they were in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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