B/R 2027 Early Mock Draft

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Excuse me... no Mensah!?!?!?

Yeup … that PFF mock draft acknowledged it was influenced by this mock draft released before Texas lost:

2027 NFL mock draft: First version includes a huge trade that powers Arch Manning to No. 1 spot

I typically avoid trades in early mock drafts, but with the Jets armed with a war chest full of draft capital, they decide to move to the top and take Manning as their quarterback of the future.

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Also has no Miami hurricanes on it. 4 quarterbacks in the first round:

Arch Manning #1
Drew Mestemaker #5
Austin Simmons #9
Trinidad Chambliss #21

 

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Mensah only 1st rounder, though did mention considering Justin Scott at 29 for Baltimore but went with Deuce Alexander from Ole Miss.

 

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Mensah only 1st rounder, though did mention considering Justin Scott at 29 for Baltimore but went with Deuce Alexander from Ole Miss.

Not surprising, Oj has no film from this season and many wanted to see him take next step, the DTs gonna have to step up to lock in.. Got to make plays, Im sure they will lock in come playoff time..

 

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@Shooter McGavin said no more NFL draft talk and he meant it LOL

 

[90scane]

Drew Mestemaker shouldn’t leave this year. He has played QB for 3 total years and started 2 years. If he comes back and puts it together, top pick material and one **** if a story.

 

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Drew Mestemaker shouldn’t leave this year. He has played QB for 3 total years and started 2 years. If he comes back and puts it together, top pick material and one **** if a story.

I think he comes back also but it will be tempted because right now I think he’s QB1 if he came out.

 

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Drew Mestemaker shouldn’t leave this year. He has played QB for 3 total years and started 2 years. If he comes back and puts it together, top pick material and one **** if a story.

There is alot of buzz of him being QB1 right now, he'd be a fool to go back to school. Strike while the iron is hot and before the league sees your flaws.

Matt Barkley and Dante Moore on a stretcher are reminders what happens when you don't declare.

 

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2027 NFL draft Big Board rankings: Mel Kiper's top 25 prospects, best by position

Seven quarterbacks ranked in the top 25? This NFL draft class could be fun. Mel Kiper Jr. stacks the best players on the board as of late October.

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Mel Kiper doesn’t outsmart himself like a lotta other draftniks. His top 3 is Jeremiah Smith, Drew Mestemaker, and Leonard Moore.

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Height: 6-3 | Weight: 205

2026 stats over five games: 84.2% completion rate, 1,438 passing yards, 15 touchdown passes, zero interceptions; 97 rushing yards, two rushing touchdowns

Mensah is at his third program in three years, transferring from Tulane to Duke (where he had 34 touchdown passes last season) and then on to Miami. To date, he has started 32 college games -- great experience for a kid who doesn't even turn 22 until January. He is a smooth, fluid passer with solid accuracy. He's smart in the pocket and manages the game really well. And the mobility is there for him to beat a defense as a rusher when the situation calls for it.

Mensah currently leads the nation in completion percentage (84.2%) and QBR (92.5), and he's third in yards per attempt (10.8). Scouts are getting excited for Miami's trip to South Bend in November to play Notre Dame -- that game is going to say a lot about Mensah's draft stock because the Hurricanes have played a pretty light schedule thus far.

Kiper sees it like i do. Fascinating to see many other people try their hardest to downplay Mensah and Chambliss (#6 on Mel’s big board)

 

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Moten ranked 5th amongst DTs and Wilson ranked 5th amongst DEs; Mark Fletcher as the #2 RB on his board! Samson ranked as the 4th OT.

 

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2027 NFL draft Big Board rankings: Mel Kiper's top 25 prospects, best by position

Seven quarterbacks ranked in the top 25? This NFL draft class could be fun. Mel Kiper Jr. stacks the best players on the board as of late October.

www.espn.com

Mel Kiper doesn’t outsmart himself like a lotta other draftniks. His top 3 is Jeremiah Smith, Drew Mestemaker, and Leonard Moore.

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Height: 6-3 | Weight: 205

2026 stats over five games: 84.2% completion rate, 1,438 passing yards, 15 touchdown passes, zero interceptions; 97 rushing yards, two rushing touchdowns

Mensah is at his third program in three years, transferring from Tulane to Duke (where he had 34 touchdown passes last season) and then on to Miami. To date, he has started 32 college games -- great experience for a kid who doesn't even turn 22 until January. He is a smooth, fluid passer with solid accuracy. He's smart in the pocket and manages the game really well. And the mobility is there for him to beat a defense as a rusher when the situation calls for it.

Mensah currently leads the nation in completion percentage (84.2%) and QBR (92.5), and he's third in yards per attempt (10.8). Scouts are getting excited for Miami's trip to South Bend in November to play Notre Dame -- that game is going to say a lot about Mensah's draft stock because the Hurricanes have played a pretty light schedule thus far.
Kiper sees it like i do. Fascinating to see many other people try their hardest to downplay Mensah and Chambliss (#6 on Mel’s big board)

Of course I scrolled for Arch. #24. More than the ranking, I thought Mel’s commentary about him was spot on.

 

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Of course I scrolled for Arch. #24. More than the ranking, I thought Mel’s commentary about him was spot on.

his colleague Jordan Reid said Manning makes the routine throws look difficult and the difficult throws look routine which i thought was a fair assessment

 

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2027 NFL draft Big Board rankings: Mel Kiper's top 25 prospects, best by position

Seven quarterbacks ranked in the top 25? This NFL draft class could be fun. Mel Kiper Jr. stacks the best players on the board as of late October.

www.espn.com

Could be good news or bad news depending on how you look at it, good news is, only Mensah is ranked which he remains at #4 on the big board for. Good or bad, no other ‘Canes ranked in his positional group top 5s.

Just a while back he had Moten, Wilson, Fletcher and Samson on there. The first three have been prolific enough that I’m not too worried about them falling past the 4th round; while still having upside to go in the 2nd or third. Technically Wilson and Fletcher could return if they want to, however, I doubt either of them will.

As for Samson and the others — Lightfoot, Scott, OJ, Lucas, etc. — will be interesting to see how they play it. We’ve stymied the trend of guys leaving early; however, that was before we started winning. Seems like they all should come back just based on the lack of buzz atm; however, still a lot of football to be played and money to be made—against ND, in the ACC-CCG, and in the playoffs.

Scary to think about the game-wrecking group we might have in 2027.

 

[Hurricane23]

Imagine another #1 overall pick? More ammo for local stars to go elsewhere

Yep, they will definitely pick us apart then

 

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Who will be QB1? 25 scouts/executives polled; Mensah had 3 votes, CJ Carr 4 votes, Dante Moore 1 vote, and Mestemaker had 17 votes.

 

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NFL scouts favor Drew Mestemaker as first QB taken in draft

In a midseason poll of 25 NFL scouts, Oklahoma State's Drew Mestemaker was the overwhelming choice to be the first quarterback selected in the 2027 NFL draft.

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The consensus among scouts is this class isn't what it was billed to be amid the optimism of the summer months. Much of that optimism stemmed from the cyclical nature of draft classes, as the last two featured underwhelming quarterback crops. There were two first-round picks in 2025 (Cam Ward at 1, Jaxson Dart at 25) and two more in 2026 (Fernando Mendoza at 1, Ty Simpson at 13). That came after six QBs went in the first round in 2024.

There still likely will be more than two quarterbacks picked in the first round in 2027 -- by virtue of need, if nothing else -- but any grandiose notions of this class have faded.

"Before the season, this class was going to rival 1983," a scout said of the fabled class where five quarterbacks went in the first round. "But there's been a lot of moving parts and Arch has fallen. It'll be interesting to see who resurfaces."

Scouts love Mestemaker's whole package, as he's prototypical QB size at 6-foot-4, 211 pounds.

"The size, the body type and arm strength are the things that stood out to me right away," a veteran scout said. "He's got arm talent, power and accuracy."

Mensah has soared up boards thanks to his surgical season. He's on pace to smash the FBS completion percentage record; he currently stands at 81.4%, four points higher than Bo Nix's 77.4% while at Oregon in 2023.

Both Mensah and Carr can make big jumps in the eyes of the NFL with long College Football Playoff runs. There also will be a flood of scouts in South Bend, Indiana, next Saturday when the Irish host the Hurricanes in what could be this quarterback class' next pivotal game.

While Manning will face a compelling choice about his future due to his play, it's instructive to what the NFL looks for that scouts haven't written him off as a prospect amid his accuracy and turnover struggles this year. Multiple scouts said he could still work himself into a first-round pick because of his tools, pedigree and potential.

The potential also looms that Manning could return to college -- perhaps at a different address -- and corral some of the momentum he built at the end of the 2025 season.

 

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The other variable that will loom large over the amount of QBs picked in the first round is how the NFL ends up viewing former Cincinnati and Texas Techquarterback Brendan Sorsby. If he had gone out last year, there was interest in Sorsby late in the first round.

His admission to making thousands of bets on sports, including college football, will make him perhaps the most thoroughly vetted quarterback in the 2027 draft. Sorsby has shown on social media that he's working out with veteran NFL assistant Rich Scangarello and learning the verbiage and execution of the offense run by Kyle Shanahan and the San Francisco 49ers.

"People are almost forgetting about Sorsby," a veteran scout said. "There's no question he can be a first rounder. We'll see how that all goes. He's got to go to an All-Star game and show the talent, excel during that week and answer all the questions. It's all about how he handles it."

For now, Mestemaker has gone from an intriguing prospect to the top quarterback in this class by an authoritative margin.

 

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How would you restack the QB rankings after this weekend?

Reid: Week 10 was one of the more important weeks for this QB class. I'd rank the top quarterbacks as ...

1. Drew Mestemaker, Oklahoma State
2. CJ Carr, Notre Dame
3. LaNorris Sellers, South Carolina
4. Trinidad Chambliss, Ole Miss
5. Darian Mensah, Miami
6. Arch Manning, Texas

 

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I’ve seen Mestemaker listed at 6’4 211 and 6’5 235 lol

 

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Reid: With Malachi Toney out for Miami, Cooper Barkate stepped up with 10 catches for 92 yards and two scores against Notre Dame. He showed route running savvy at 6-foot-1 and 195 pounds, plus the ability to consistently beat press coverage. I have Barkate -- who joined Mensah in transferring from Duke -- with a Round 3 grade, and he's trending upward