'You better be right!' Mel Kiper's STAGGERING Discovery About 1st-round QBs

First Draft

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🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Welcome back to "First Draft"! Field Yates and Mel Kiper Jr. are back comparing and contrasting percentages of 1st-round quarterbacks and non 1st-round quarterbacks who have led their teams to the postseason. 00:54 Mel Kiper’s quarterback theory 1:41 QBs to make playoffs as a starter by draft round 3:40 1st round QBs 9:56 Cam Ward 11:26 Shedeur Sanders 24:55 Jaxson Dart 25:40 2nd round QBs 27:00 3rd round QBs 28:33 4th round QBs 29:30 5th round QBs 31:34 6th round QBs 34:09 7th round QBs 45:03 Thank you for watching! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.4	You need them and you got to have them.
0:47.2	So our guy Mel Kuyper Jr.
0:48.7	is going to tell us how pivotal it is for NFL teams to be right about drafting a quarterback in the first round.
0:55.3	That is coming up on today's show.
0:56.8	Plus, we're responding to your questions, your takes, and your draft dreams live as first
1:00.6	draft starts right now.
1:02.6	Hello and welcome into the show.
1:04.3	For those of you that don't know by now, we are live twice a week, Mondays and Thursdays.
1:08.9	The best place to find us is live on the ESPN NFL and ESPN YouTube
1:14.0	page or wherever you get to your podcast. He is Mel Kuyper Jr. I am Field Yates. We've done mock
1:20.4	drafts of plenty recently, Mel, but it's time for us to go a little bit off script, which is a
1:25.9	segment that we used to do on the show and maybe take a step back.
1:29.5	Now, you and I are just going to talk about quarterbacks today because, as I understand it,
1:34.3	Professor Kuyper has been in the lab crunching the numbers to figure out when it's worth drafting a quarterback.
1:40.7	And what exactly have you found during your copious research i'll tell you what field
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