Worst Pick in Rd 1...

[TheBengalsMind]

Baker Mayfield is the biggest reach.

First knock is that he's 6' 210, obviously that's not to important to me, but it does matter.

The 2nd knock is he played in a variation of the air raid offense, which is a stat riser for any QB.

But how many of these prolific passers have translated into the NFL? Well, let's take a look, shall we? Of the QB's I can think of, that played a more traditional air raid offense.

Tim Couch, Brandon Weeden, Johnny Manziel, Kevin Kolb, Geno Smith, John Beck, Nick Foles, Josh Heupel, Kliff Kingsbury, B.J. Symons, Case Keenum, Dominique Davis, Graham Harrell, Jared Lorenzen, Jason White, Max Hall, Nate Hybl, Sonny Cumbie and Jared Goff.

All these quarterbacks had at least one year in a air raid offense and they all put up huge numbers for the most part.

In this list you only have 4 QB's that were good to solid Tim Couch, Nick Foles, Case Keenum and Jared Goff. With Goff being more then likely the only QB that hs truly got the potential to be truly great, he was last year.

Maybe Keenum could be great, you could also add Kolb and Smith as being solid QB's.

But overall the number would seem to indicate that they just aren't worth the risk that high.

With Haley and Jackson he does have the potential to make it, I like him a lot more then Johnny Manziel. I just don't think I'd take that risk at number 1.

Let's be honest he threw 389 times, completed 70.5 percent of his passes for 4340 yards, had 41 TD's and 5 interceptions.

Carson Palmer threw 489 times, completed 63.2 percent of his passes for 3942 yards, had 33 TD's and 10 interceptions.

If we're being honest, based on what we know, Palmer gets drafted 10 out of 10 times before Baker. Why, because Palmer played a more traditional NFL offense in college, plus he had prototypical size and strength for a quarterback.

I think he has the potential to be really good, but I personally would have passed on him at number 1. He doesn't have to start immediately, but we all know if things go bad their throwing him out there.