Newsstand: Joel Klatt ranks J.J. McCarthy among 2024 draft QBs
The Michigan Wolverines will be represented by plenty of talent in the 2024 NFL Draft, but headlined by quarterback J.J. McCarthy. He could be a first-round pick and potential top-10 selection, but there are questions about his game.
Most evaluators will label a lack of consistent big production and opportunities, but Fox analyst Joel Klatt says that what McCarthy does can translate to the NFL.
“He’s 27-1 as a starting quarterback. So does his game translate?” Klatt said. “Yes of course it translates. He wasn’t running a college offense, he was running Jim Harbaugh‘s offense. That is a pro style offense, he was handling protections, run checks, all of those things are gonna translate and he did so by the way in an incredibly unselfish manner.”
McCarthy, who was 27-1 as a starter at Michigan, threw for 2,991 yards with 22 touchdowns and 4 interceptions this season for the Maize and Blue. He is currently the 57th-ranked player in the 2024 NFL Draft class on Pro Football Focus’ big board.
McCarthy could match or eclipse his former head coach, but could also fall somewhere into the second round. That would put him in the running to be selected somewhere close to Michigan’s second-highest quarterback selected since Harbaugh in Chad Henne, who went 57th overall to the Miami Dolphins in 2007.
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Since then, Michigan has had only a single quarterback drafted. That designation went to Jake Rudock, who was a seventh-round selection of the Detroit Lions in 2016.
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