Longgone

Whoever performs is going to play. They have options.

What are you basing any of this on?

To me, a good offensive coach takes advantage of his players strengths and attacks the defensive weaknesses, and a really good coach manipulates things to enhance those two things, but you can still be unsuccessful if you don’t have the talent. I don’t know where Shaw ranks in all that, but I trust Holmes and Carpenter do.

They have players who can play 3b as well as Parades.

Age is a big factor in athletics in that athletes are still developing into the early 20’s and athletic ability peaks and then begins to wane. With quarterbacks however, the skills necessary to compete are less athletically dependent and so age is less a factor.

I don’t think age is that much of a factor because quarterbacks are playing well into their 30’s. What teams care about is can they run an offense, read defenses, efficiently distribute the ball, etc.

Fans always get BPA wrong, it’s not the best player available on some consensus draft board, it’s always been the best player available for that particular team at that particular point in the draft.

Pretty much everyone you mentioned here is a young, ascending player, for sure, not all of those pan out, but early stats are surely not indicative of future performance.

Exactly, he probably graded out as a late 1st early 2nd round talent if healthy. If evaluators feel he still has that ability and now has nfl training, then his value will be in the higher ranges, if they’ve seen things that diminished their evaluation, then his value has appropriately dropped.

Changeup. Changeup. Changeup

I think you are putting way too much emphasis on how much he has played. Evaluators are going to base his value on what they perceive his abilities to be, and as far as you and I know, they haven’t diminished, but unlike you and I, the actual evaluators actually know.

What are you basing this on? He has all the projection he had during the draft process, except he’s now healthy and has been trained in a very good system.

Hooker hasn’t failed or had his shortcomings exposed like those two.

No idea

You are evaluated throughout the entire process, every practice, your work in scrimmages, on the scout team, in preseason, it all matters in evaluating your strengths and weaknesses.