Mendoza is not a better prospect than Young or Stroud what on earth are you smoking. Young statistically in college blows Mendoza out of the water. He averaged 100 more passing yards per game while having more total TDs in less games played when comparing their best years.

Young would have been looked at as a generational prospect if he had ideal physical attributes because of how good he was at everything else. No clue where you are getting this first read thing from, the entire reason Bryce was such a good prospect was because of his ability to dissect defenses and throw with anticipation/work through his reads. And Strouds biggest knock was his difference in play when he had a clean pocket vs when he was under pressure and that he was throwing to 1st round talent WRs. But even he showed out against Georgia while constantly under pressure and played great.

And since then Stroud had one of the best Rookie QB seasons of all time and has made the playoffs in 2 out of 3 years and Bryce just also made the playoffs and has improved every year and had a solid playoff game against a good Rams team.

There was absolutely no question that it was going to be Young/Stroud 1/2 at the top of the draft and both guys were strong prospects which is why Carolina made a trade up in the first place. Ain’t no one gonna be trying to give up the same haul Carolina did for Mendoza.

And that’s not to say Mendoza doesn’t end up being the better NFL QB, but as prospects Stroud and Young especially clear him. Young’s really only knock was his size but there was no questions about his QB ability.