Fernando Mendoza will almost certainly go No 1 overall. But who are the players that teams may take a swing on after the big names have gone?<\/p>\n
You have to go back to 2013 to find a year in which fewer than four quarterbacks were selected in the top 100 picks. But in this year\u2019s mediocre quarterback class, the fourth quarterback may not go off the board until day three. After Indiana\u2019s Fernando Mendoza and Alabama\u2019s Ty Simpson, it\u2019s unclear who will even be the third taken. There is a chasm from the top two down to LSU\u2019s Garrett Nussmeier, Penn State\u2019s Drew Allar and Miami\u2019s Carson Beck. All three are flawed. The most tantalizing mid-round quarterback is Payton, a one-year, lefty starter out of North Dakota State.<\/p>\n
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