Trey Lance's NFL Journey: Evaluating His Latest Progress

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00:00Did you think that Trey Lance was going to go out there

00:02and throw multiple touchdown passes?

00:04No, and I heard it all week.

00:06Oh, Jim's going to coach up Trey.

00:09Jim's going to coach up Trey.

00:11It's the preseason.

00:12It's much better than the five-interception performance he had last year

00:15with the Dallas Cowboys.

00:17And that's why he's on his third team in basically six years, right?

00:23Could the possibility of Trey Lance having a resurgence and getting back?

00:29Like, whoa, getting back to where we saw Baker Mayfield and Sam Darnold?

00:34It's possible.

00:35I mean, the longer that he's in the league, you would hope that he would develop.

00:38I mean, but I don't expect him to be a starter in any time soon.

00:45Do you?

00:47I mean, come on.

00:49Here's my thing.

00:50Here's my thing with Trey Lance.

00:52I never fully understood why the Niners gave up on him because when you think about all

01:02they poured into him, no, I think the answer to that is probably they just wanted to move

01:06on to Brock Purdy and let Brock Purdy feel comfortable as the guy for that organization.

01:13But here is the interesting thing about the quarterback position, and I think when you also tie it

01:22into some of the college exits due to the COVID rules, right?

01:28Trey Lance is literally younger than Bo Nix.

01:33Yes.

01:34That is wild because I think the people who are in on Denver, I don't know if you are one of

01:42them, but the folks who will be in on the Broncos this year will be talking about a year

01:46two leap for Bo Nix, how Bo Nix has time to get better.

01:51And I'm not saying Bo Nix doesn't have time to get better.

01:54And I understand that you can be a young 25 or an older 25, depending on the time that

01:59you've had.

02:00I just look around the league, Joe, and we've seen guys get second chances in Geno Smith

02:08and Sam Darnold.

02:09I see certain organizations running out starting quarterbacks.

02:13They shouldn't be running out.

02:15Joe Flacco, Tyler Shuck.

02:18I'm sorry, but like you're telling me the New Orleans Saints season makes more sense where

02:25they spend a top 40 draft pick on Tyler Shuck instead of giving Trey Lance the season.

02:31I don't think that makes any sense.

02:33Well, it depends on the mindset of the organization.

02:36Now, I agree with you on a couple of things.

02:38I'll say this, that I think when they made assessments on quarterbacks and evaluations,

02:44it used to be we need to know if this kid could start within basically 16 games, 17 games.

02:49Either you get it or you don't, a la Zach Wilson.

02:52But I think there's also a lot of hype that goes with these quarterbacks that they're given

02:58first round grades because it's not a deep quarterback class and scouts and GMs will fall in love

03:06with somebody and will pump this guy up to be a first round selection.

03:11And he's not worthy of that grade.

03:14And I'll keep going back to Trey Lance when he left North Dakota State at a completion percentage of 63%.

03:21North Dakota State, as you know, football factory at the FCS level with Carson Wentz and his success.

03:28And they were making him out to be the second coming potentially of him.

03:32And he was an RPO guy.

03:34But, you know, when he stepped up against better competition, the numbers weren't that great.

03:38He shouldn't have been the third overall pick in the draft, quarterback-wise.

03:43He should have been more of a second or a third round pick.

03:46And the expectation of that, I think, hurt him.

03:51But that's the problem is that we put these grades.

03:53Malik Willis deserved to be a third round selection.

03:57But the media and the GMs pumped him up to potentially be the first quarterback selected.

04:03Will Levis is another example.

04:05Pumped up to be a first.

04:06He never should have been in the conversation.

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