Commanders head coach Dan Quinn isn’t displaying all his playing cards heading into the 2024 NFL draft, however he’s acknowledging the apparent: They’re most likely going to draft a quarterback.
“I might say it’d be honest to ascertain we’d be taking a quarterback,” Quinn informed Tom Pelissero of NFL Community. “To say the place it’ll be occurring, I believe that’s a greater query for [general manager] Adam [Peters]. As the subsequent weeks unfold there’ll be a number of dialogue, and that’s why we’ve had an important journey out seeing some guys, we’ll try this some extra within the weeks forward, however I’ve loved that course of with Adam, and going via it. He’s someone that’s an absolute skilled at this place, what it appears to be like like, the place to go, and so going via that course of has been actually cool.”
LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels is extensively anticipated to be the Commanders’ choose at No. 2 total. Quinn stated the Commanders are getting near setting the highest of their draft board, however haven’t completed evaluating the quarterbacks.
Quinn did say the Commanders’ cellphone is ringing in commerce talks and the Commanders will hear, however it sounds unlikely that anybody would supply sufficient to get them to maneuver down.
“Sure, I might say it’s ringing, and since, such as you stated, of the expertise of the group this yr,” Quinn stated. “And so I might anticipate him fielding these calls because it goes via, and normally it’s not essentially later than No. 6 or 7, however these people who find themselves normally within the high 4 or 5, there’s someone that someone has focused, and I believe it’s principally like ‘Nicely, I’ve bought to take a shot!’ A whole lot of occasions it’s no, like ‘Thanks for calling’ however it’s a part of the method, and you need to do your due diligence to hear and to search out out simply to ensure, like is there one thing that you just simply couldn’t refuse.
“I definitely walked previous it within the hallway after I was with the Cowboys, years in the past for a commerce that concerned Herschel Walker and plenty of draft picks and adjusted a number of their group. So, I believe anyone in personnel with the talents of Adam, they’re going to hear, however there’s solely so many issues that you just’d contemplate, and it’d higher be actually good.”
Realistically, if the Commanders assume there’s a quarterback out there at No. 2 who’s going to be their franchise quarterback for years to return, it’s laborious to think about any supply ok for Washington to maneuver down. Washington maintaining the choose at No. 2 and drafting its subsequent quarterback is the more than likely consequence.
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