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I agree with this except put cam below Wilson. Stafford might belong in this group too.
Andy Dalton was on Harbaugh's radar during that draft. I think once he was picked by CIN the 49ers decided to move up to get Kaep IIRC.
Agree on Luck and I would have posted almost the exact same thing on your second point except about RG3 instead of Cam. I like Cam, but I think RG3 will have better success than Cam in the long run.
I think Stafford should be mentioned as well. His 2011 season was huge. This after 2 years of injuries.
Does it hurt when you let him?
Yeah, the bolded doesn't make sense to me. He was a 4.0 GPA student in HS. He also runs a very complex offense, more complex than what Alex Smith ran, who graduated from Utah in 3 years.
Granted, his receivers are weak; but he has a good OLine and running game to support him. Both of those are the best of the teams discussed here.
Cam has a better WR to throw to in Smith but a significantly worse line and as a result a much worse running game (especially from a consistency perspective). Give me a sound line and running game and I'll manage with my no name WRs.
The offensive line is where Kaep has the advantage right now. You put a lot of the new breed of QB's behind that offense, and they will produce more than where they are at now. You put Luck in that offense right now, and he runs away with this due the lineage of he and Harbaugh, yet Kaep has a big taste of Chris Ault's offense that Greg Roman is baking in.
I like Dalton, but would put Tannehill equal or above him.
Since the 2004 draft there weren't a lot of great QB's drafted - Rodgers in 05, Ryan and Flacco in 08, Stafford in 09, Bradford in 10. The 11 and 12 classes look very good and 13 isn't looking too bad either with Manuel and Geno.
You beat me to it. Drop Culpepper (never had a good season after age 27), and add Rich Gannon, instead.
Luck is as mobile as any of those guys.
This is what I thought up until I watched the San Fran game. I thought Kaep was the complete package and his passing display on Sunday proved it. He picked apart Green Bay for an easy-looking 400 yards passing, often throwing balls before the wide receivers were open, placing them perfectly where they could be caught on the run. This kid can do *EVERYTHING*. So can Luck, and I think Luck is a safer bet, but Kaep is going to be stud for a long time. Seriously, though. Kaep threw for 400 yards and I don't think he's getting enough credit for how difficult that performance would be for any other QB not named Manning, Brees, or Rodgers. Luck has thrown for 400 yards once, and it was against a much crappier defense than the 2013 Packers. For all the talk of the read-option, if anyone was paying attention, the Packers were in Nickel and Dime for most of the game. And Kaep still threw for 400 yards. Beast mode.
