We've already heard a lot about the 2024 NFL draft's talented quarterback duo at the top of the class: USC's Caleb Williams and North Carolina's Drake Maye.
They are both in serious contention to go No. 1 overall next April, and Williams is getting «generational talent» buzz before the 2023 college football season even kicks off.
But how do they stack up as prospects against other top-tier signal-callers? To get a sense of the best quarterback prospects of the past five years, we stacked the 16 passers who were taken in Round 1 over 2019-2023.
That conversation covers the likes of Joe Burrow, Trevor Lawrence, Bryce Young and Kyler Murray. Then we dropped Williams and Maye — the only two first-round graded QBs in my evaluations right now — into the mix and ranked them against those recent Day 1 selections.