LAS VEGAS — Among the many new experiments in this year’s NFL draft, the league had an artist speed-painting portraits of the players as they were selected.
Guy could have painted the Sistine Chapel in the time it took for the quarterbacks to come off the board.
A year after quarterbacks were selected 1-2-3, the second quarterback wasn’t taken until the third round when the Atlanta Falcons used the 74th pick on Cincinnati’s Desmond Ridder. Only two times has the second quarterback gone later, in 1996 (85th) and 1988 (149th). And back then, it was more of a running back’s league.
