 Hey everybody Dave Archer the Falcon Radio Network and we're here to talk positions that could affect the Falcons in the draft early on. Let's talk quarterbacks and who would have ever thought? Talk quarterbacks after 14 years of brilliance from Matt Ryan, but that's where we are now. Quarterback that quarterback has moved on to Indianapolis. Marcus Mariota comes in a solid veteran quarterback. Do we add a young player? Here's some guys to take a look at. Malik Willis the youngster out of Liberty, 6'1", 219 pounds. Now this kid just got a monster arm and tremendous athleticism. He ran for over 800 yards and 13 touchdowns just a year ago. Some of comparing him to Michael Vick. Now I don't necessarily see the running ability that we saw from Mike when he was here in Atlanta, but I do see a guy that's a little bit more accomplished passer than Michael Vick was when he arrived right here in Atlanta. This is a guy that's got to work on some of his patients and some of those progression reads that you like to get to. I guess the biggest question is his level of competition. Did he rack numbers up against teams that a lot of quarterbacks would rack numbers up against? I'm not sure about that. He did have one game against Ole Miss this last year and kind of a marginal game just through for 173 yards. He did throw three interceptions in that game and that's where you begin to evaluate quarterbacks. What was their level of competition during the year? Kenny Pickett another guy drawn a ton of detention and why not? Pickett had a monster year at Pitt guiding the Pitt Panthers to the ACC Championship and beyond. He threw for over 4500 yards, 42 touchdowns on the year and just seven interceptions. Now tremendously he's got a very good arms, very solid arm. It's a very it's an arm that works the National Football League. He can make the throws, but he's helped by his understanding of the game. He has a real good recognition and he throws guys open. That's what you're looking for. Good enough athlete. His running ability reminds me of if you remember Aaron Rodgers middle of his career where Aaron would get out of pocket run for first downs. That's what his athleticism reminds me of. The little drawback maybe getting through his reeds. Sometimes he hangs up on one particular throw, kind of looks it stares it down. He's got to be able to get through his progressions a little bit more and the big question about Kenny Pickett is his hand size and so what difference does it make how big the guy's hands is? Well as it turns out when you get in competition guys are slapping at the football or you're in a cold environment where you got to squeeze a cold football sometimes that can be a problem. He had 38 career fumbles at Pitt so there is some concern about the size of Kenny Pickett's hands believe it or not. All right let's move on to Matt Corral. A kid at Ole Miss and a lot of people watch SEC football, watch Matt Corral get it done for four years with the Ole Miss Rebels. This is a guy that can run the football as well as throw it. You wonder about the system he played in. Is he a little bit of a victim of the RPO system or run-pass system? I don't think so. He's got a really big arm. He's a tremendous athlete. This is a guy that ran for 600 yards and 11 touchdowns last season and he played against some of the best competition you could possibly play against in the SEC. Matt Corral another guy to take a look at. How about Desmond Ritter the senior that comes out of Cincinnati. He had a tremendous career there. He really brought Cincinnati up to a level of where you're talking about them as a playoff team. They went to the playoffs this last year but Desmond Ritter has a lot of experience started from early on in his career. He's very polished, got tremendous leadership. His anticipation thrower meaning he's a guy that has an understanding of when a guy is going to come up and throw him into windows. That can cover up with some of the arm deficiencies. Not quite as big a arm as maybe a Boleak Willis but he has a good enough arm to play in this in the National Football League. And then getting through his progressions. You're going to find this a lot with the quarterback. When you begin to evaluate the QBs is how quickly do they get through things because they're not playing NFL defenses. They're playing maybe three or four times a year. They're playing an elite level defense so that they get hung up on their favorite receiver. Do they not get through their progressions? Ritter has some problems there from time to time. It's not a glaring problem. It's certainly something he can fix. Last guy on my list is Sam Howell out of North Carolina. Howell 6'1, 218 pounds. Probably a better athlete than people giving credit for. And he tends to let that get in the way. He wants to try to run through people. Not going to be able to do that in the National Football League but he is a good runner. He's got an extremely strong arm so you can show. You'll see that he'll be able to make all the throws as far as a quarterback goes in this league. But his accuracy gets a little off-skew especially out of the pocket. Not necessarily the most accurate guy on the move. But did have a monster use last year over 3,000 yards passing 24 touchdowns. Remember that was a North Carolina team that was depleted of a lot of their talent they had his previous year with the running backs and the wide receiver. So still a really good year for Sam Howell. A couple of the guys that keep an eye on Carson Strong, 6'3, 226 out of Nevada. And Jack Cohn, another guy, a big kid at 6'5, 6'4, 218 pounds. Played at Notre Dame this last year. Was it Wisconsin the year before? Had a solid year for Notre Dame. Quarterbacks, we're going to see some go in the draft. Will the Falcons take one? There's certainly going to be a guy available there. It's a high level player. We'll have to wait and see.