At its most dramatic, the NFL draft can be on par with shows like “Succession” and “Game of Thrones” when it comes to shocking the audience — and the 2024 version might give us more of the same.
ESPN’s Matt Miller named a possible surprise pick by the Washington Commanders, who have the No. 2 overall pick.
Miller wrote that the Commanders could select quarterback J.J. McCarthy of Michigan rather than one of the two QBs who have been widely predicted to go second in the draft: LSU’s Jayden Daniels and North Carolina’s Drake Maye.
“If this was one or two people saying it, I’d probably dismiss it as the usual April draft buzz that doesn’t come to fruition,” Miller wrote in an April 5 story. “But enough sources around the NFL are whispering that McCarthy could very well be the second quarterback off the board that it has to be considered possible at this point … ruling out McCarthy in Washington would be foolish based on league-wide intel surrounding the quarterbacks.”
The Washington Post’s Jason La Canfora is among those who see the Commanders possibly selecting McCarthy.
“I am inclined to believe there is merit to the Michigan star’s rising odds to go second overall,” La Canfora wrote in an April 4 story discussing unnamed evaluators’ assessment of the quarterback draft class. “When I asked the second evaluator for comparisons for the top four quarterbacks, he said this about McCarthy: ‘Looks like another [Brock] Purdy to me.’”
La Canfora wrote that another evaluator told him that McCarthy was “the kind of point guard who really fits that offense.”
