Podcast: PFF's Sam Monson on Michigan NFL Draft prospects, how Jim Harbaugh will do with Chargers
On this episode of TheWolverine.com Podcast, Clayton Sayfie and Anthony Broome are joined by PFF lead NFL analyst Sam Monson to discuss Michigan Wolverines football draft prospects, how Jim Harbaugh will do with the Los Angeles Chargers and why U-M players typically seem so ready for the league.
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Monson discussed Michigan quarterback prospect J.J. McCarthy, a projected top-15 selection.
“He’s one of the more interesting prospects, because right from the outset, the narrative was being put out there by kind of NFL insiders and people that talk to scouts and coaches, guys in the league. All the way along, those guys were saying, ‘J.J. McCarthy is somebody that the NFL likes than the draft community, than the media, than the buzz that is out there generally.
“And that, I think, is why you’re seeing what looks like a real rise in his draft stock; it’s actually just that the closer we get, the more that is stacking evidence on top of evidence. Everybody from outside of NFL buildings is starting to catch up to the idea that the NFL does seem to see this guy significantly more attractively or as a much better prospect than the media or people that are just watching film outside did.
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“I think that does seem to be real. And Jim Harbaugh came out weeks ago and was like, he should be QB1 off the board. And that was treated as ridiculous, but the closer we get, the idea that he goes No. 2 overall is not seeming particularly far fetched right now. I think it would still be less likely for that to happen than somebody else, but it’s becoming a real possibility now. So, Jim Harbaugh’s comments, the closer we get to the draft, are looking less and less crazy than they were kind of given credit for when he first uttered them.
Continued Monson of the Michigan quarterback: “Then you get the complicated factor of he does have a lot smaller of a sample size, he wasn’t asked to do some of the same things that some of these quarterbacks were. That doesn’t mean he can’t do them; it just means that he wasn’t asked to do them. And Michigan won a national title. They’re sending like a million people to the draft. Clearly, they didn’t need to lean on J.J. McCarthy like some of these other teams needed to lean on their quarterback. It was a different assignment, it was a different role and responsibility for him.
“And then the other element is that he was in a more pro-style offense than these other quarterbacks, and I think that really stands in his favor. NFL personnel and coaches love to see a guy running what they run, because they don’t need to do any projection, they don’t need to figure out how what he’s doing in college translates to the schemes and the play concepts that they’re running — they can actually see him run the play concepts that they’re running.”
