Anyone watch anything of Cole Payton? Huge arm, prototypical size, but a North Dakota State kid and didn't start much. He's been getting some steam and maybe makes sense as a flier in the mid rounds
If Chambliss is still there in Round 2, the Jets have to take him. There's no other top QB prospect out there who showed out the way he did against the best teams. He's got great pocket presence and a live arm. He's got the right makeup to be a good pro.
that would be fun for sure. I hope this happens I’m skeptical though, I bet he gets court mandated eligibility and stays at Ole Miss
You’re probably right. I also like Taylen Green from Arkansas in the mid-rounds. All the ability in the world and led an electric Arkansas offense this year that lost a ton of games by a FG or less. 4-year starter. His growth was stunted a bit in year 2 and 3 at Boise State when they tried to force him to be a pure pocket passer. He’s an awesome athlete, very big arm. From 4 mins to 5 mins on the video showcases all three of his great attributes - throwing on the run, flicking the ball down field and outrunning defenders. Not against top competition but still fun to watch.
Very impressive Vids. He certainly has the arm and the size to play in the league. 4 year starter is a plus. With all that going for him, the Jets will probably pass.
He wants to avoid being a pro so badly that he's suing to stay in college. https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...-chambliss-lawsuit-ole-miss-ncaa-eligibility/ That's the opposite of the right makeup to be a good pro.
I get that... but if boosters are offering him millions in NIL $$, and he's projected to be a 2nd/3rd pick, I can see his stance as well. (basically college sports are fuct)
Wanting another year of college eligibility and being a good pro are not mutually exclusive. Not sure why you're conflating those two topics. Can you blame someone for wanting to live out another year of his youth making millions of dollars before going pro? How is that an indictment on his makeup to be a good pro? My point remains. He's got the makings of a very good pro QB based on what he's done on the field which is really all that matters especially when all reports are that he's a good citizen and teammate. All I care about is can he ball and that's been proven. All the other stuff is secondary.
To be fair, when he filed his waiver request nobody was talking about him as a potential First Round pick. It's everything he did from that point and after that put him in the discussion. If I were Chambliss, I'd have sued the NCAA too. They're like 0 - 8000000000 in lawsuits. If he were a Round One lock, he'd be stupid not to enter the draft. Anything else, he can make just as much money staying in school for another year. EDIT: I'll also add - because the NCAA dragged its fucking feet ruling on his waiver, he really had no choice but to file suit. They diminished his market value by waiting until all of the most free-spending collectives signed another guy, while he had to sit around waiting to see if he even had another year of eligibility.
Times have changed. In 2005 you would be correct, even 2020. But college is pro now. He wants to stay at Ole Miss to maximize his earnings
Everyone else gets a 6th year of eligibility in college but the NCAA won’t give Chambliss one, why? It’s not a knock. He wants the same treatment Diego Pavia, Carson Beck, Mark Granowski, etc. got.
His 2026 NIL deal is supposedly $5 million. That's more in one year than he'd make as a 2nd Round pick. I read an article about the Chambliss case that made me hate the NCAA even more than I already did. Didn't think that was possible. He filed his initial waiver request in early November. The waiver committee met a couple times but couldn't come to a decision and kicked it around until January. Now that there's only one transfer portal and it opened right around the same time, that was the first dick move. The NCAA released its decision the morning after Ole Miss' semifinal loss. And Ole Miss only found out when the NCAA posted the news on Twitter/X - at the same time the Ole Miss Athletic Dept was on a conference call with the NCAA about another matter. Apparently the NCAA didn't think it was important enough to mention in the call. Add to that, we only have one portal window this year and were almost a week into it by the time the NCAA finally decided if he'd get another year. If the $5 million deal he signed is real, it's only out of the kindness of the Ole Miss collective. By that time, the NCAA had squeezed much of his negotiating leverage, and it was running out more each portal day that passed. I'm rooting for him in his lawsuit. Hugely.
IMHO assuming mendoza is gone any QB other than simpson before the 4th-5th round is a wasted pick and Simpson is probably only worth a 3rd.
College sports are only fuct if your school is a bunch of poors. I went to WVU and those hillbillies are dumping cash into NIL and giving kids bags to come to Morgantown.
Simpson is going to go before we pick at 33, and if he does I hope it's not us at 16. I also hope it's not us at 33 if he falls. After that I'm waiting til day 3 and hoping Nussmaier or Allar is there. We have way too many holes to fill to be wasting premiere picks on a project QB.
I don't hate Chambliss. I don't have Round 2 love for him, but I don't hate him. I'm just stuck on the notion that "the Jets have to take" ANY of the QBs in this draft. More than any past draft, 2026 is the year to be conservative on QB value and not reach for a guy in Round 2 because you don't have any Round 3 picks and he might be gone by Round 4. This is the year you let that guy go. I made a longer post on why in another thread. I won't hog bandwidth. Here's the reason, if you're interested. LINK
Hehe. This is mostly where I fall, but something does need to be fixed. The Darian Mensah case proved that, if it wasn't already apparent. I just have zero faith in the people responsible for fixing it. They're good at nothing.
I don’t know…this whole suing to go back for a 7th year of college just rubs me the wrong way. Badly. That to me shows a guy who has zero confidence in his ability to compete in the NFL…I think in his case probably rightfully so as isn’t he like tiny? 5’10” or thereabouts? But for me, especially in a QB, I want a fucking leader…a guy who KNOWS he’s got what it takes. Not a guy who says yeah the NFL can wait, I want to go dominate college kids some more…kind of like when people hold their kids back so they can play pop warner being 2 years older than the other kids… I think this is a pretty bad red flag and I would not want him
I'm not rooting for him in his lawsuit. Not just because I want him to be eligible for the Jets to draft him either. The NCAA has to draw the line somewhere here. Alabama has a dude who just joined them, in the middle of the season, after 3 years in the NBA G-league. This is just a joke.
college sports is fuct if you are a bunch of poors... or if you are an incoming freshman athlete or a taxpayer in the state or a student at the university or a non-revenue sport athlete or a fan of college rivalries, development of players, and pageantries but the changes are good for some people
