Zach Wilson wasn’t on anyone’s first round draft radar over the two seasons of his BYU career. Then a 2020 breakthrough — 3,692 passing yards and 33 touchdowns in 12 games — planted a seed with NFL executives. This big-armed Utahan could be a franchise quarterback.
Still, Wilson’s 2020 season left questions about his efficacy on the field. But scouts got their answers when he took the field in Provo and launched an array of dazzling deep shots at BYU’s pro day. The player who looked like the third or fourth quarterback off the board — he was slotted in as the No. 4 pick by the majority of mock drafts that January — became a consensus top-two prospect. It wasn’t hard to understand why.
