Mike Mayock Says Carson Wentz Better Prospect Than Sam Bradford

The consensus with just a few days until the NFL Draft has been that the Los Angeles Rams are 99.9% taking Jared Goff. Nearly every reporter except for a select few believe the Rams are taking Goff over Wentz.

This will be a big decision for the Rams and whether or not they take Goff, the last time they selected a quarterback first overall it didnt work out so well. Of course, at that time the Rams took Sam Bradford out of Oklahoma who has actually drawn comparisons to Goff.

However, with the slight hope that the Rams do in fact take Wentz, one NFL Draft expert, Mike Mayock, believes Wentz is a better prospect than Bradford.

"“When Bradford came out, there was a similar buzz. Coming out of Oklahoma, great Pro Day, blah, blah, blah, one of the more accurate college quarterbacks I’ve seen,” Mayock said. “The issue was then and still now, very slight frame and injury prone. That was kind of the caveat that came with all the glowing reports.“Six years later, that’s still been his Achilles heel, because when he’s healthy for long periods of time, he can get pretty good. He still has a good arm. He still throws the ball with accuracy. So I look at Carson Wentz, and I see a big, thick, athletic kid with an elite arm, all the intelligence in the world. If you’re going to ask me for one negative, I would say, because he only has 23 starts, and I don’t care about Division I, AA, but because he’s only had 23 starts, that’s less than half as many throws as Jared Goff. Less than half as many throws as Connor Cook. So he doesn’t have as many reps. He needs to get the football. He needs to process information more quickly, and he needs to get the ball out more quickly.“But that’s part of the normal developmental pattern of just about any college quarterback, and I think he has the intelligence and work ethic to get that done. So if you ask me today who I’m more excited about as a first round quarterback, it would be Carson Wentz over Bradford from back in the day.” -Mike Mayock"

If the Rams do end up taking Wentz, one could hope that he would turn out being better than Bradford. Of course, while Bradford always had some of the skill, he never was able to stay healthy in a Rams uniform and wasn’t the franchise quarterback they hoped he could be.