Which current NFL quarterbacks are worth acquiring for the #1 pick?
5/25/202643 min
Cognitive dissonance in the way we talk about Mike Tomlin and Nick Sirianni? Top-five football heartbreaks? The worst QB the Raiders would've been willing to acquire in exchange for this year's number one pick? Yup, it's another edition of The Athletic Football Show's mailbag. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen tackle those questions, and more, on this episode.
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Senior Producer: Katy Duffy
Social Producer: Scott Krinch
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Welcome to The Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. It's another Mailbag Monday here in the off-season. I'm actually on vacation when you guys are gonna be listening to this. Sincerely appreciate everyone holding down the fort while I'm gone. Still having three shows a week coming your guys' way, kicking things off with the mailbag. Today, a lot of really good questions, a lot of really good fun off-season questions. Just me and Derek. Sincerely appreciate everyone who spent the time to send these in. The reason we do them is because we love the questions so much, so thank you very much to everyone who participated. For now, let's get to it. Another Mailbag Monday here on The Athletic Football Show. [upbeat music] It's another Mailbag Monday here on The Athletic Football Show. These will be happening when we're on vacation, but it's always good to keep doing them over the course of the off-season. I really enjoyed the set of questions, uh, that we had for this one and the next mailbag, so excited to dig into these. And I'm gonna read the questions today. Belichick's having some internet issues. So let's start with Tristan. He said, "Recently there's been some discussion about what constitutes a successful number one overall pick. Specifically Robert saying the pick doesn't need to turn into an MVP to be a successful pick. With that in mind, what is the line for current NFL quarterbacks who would be worth straight up trading for the number one overall pick? Specifically, which quarterbacks would the Raiders have traded the number one overall pick for this year straight