Colin Cowherd believes CJ Stroud, the former Ohio State and current Houston Texans quarterback, is the most likely to fail among the three first-round NFL draft picks under center.
And there is more to it than the Buckeyes’ inability to produce quarterbacks at the game’s highest level.
It’s a tired narrative: Ohio State doesn’t produce NFL quarterbacks. There’s some truth to it, of course. But there aren’t too many programs that have more than one or two great signal callers that start for a long period of time on Sundays.
Cowherd has some pretty stale takes on why OSU hasn’t produced a star quarterback in the league (though Justin Fields may be loading), and he believes Stroud will not be able to overcome all of the built-in disadvantages of playing in Houston.
It has a little to do with the situation and a little to do with quarterbacks not being prepared for the next level at Ohio State because of too much talent surrounding them says Cowherd. Weird, seeing how that’s the case for any big-time program that has had a talented starter at the NFL level.
Bottom line: Cowherd doesn’t think Stroud’s talent can overcome everything working against him within the Texans franchise.
“CJ Stroud is just not talented enough to overcome the Houston Texans’ nonsense,” said Cowherd. “But if you told me today, on August 8, Tuesday — Tuesday, August 8, that I had to pick one (rookie first-round QB) that would miss, I would probably pick CJ Stroud from all the things I’ve heard in camp.”
You can listen to the segment below and pick it apart for yourself.
"If you told me today that I had to pick one that would miss, I would probably pick C.J. Stroud."
— @ColinCowherd looks at how this years rookie QB class will fare pic.twitter.com/vZXU02UCBK
— Herd w/Colin Cowherd (@TheHerd) August 8, 2023
Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion and nobody likes to give it more than Cowherd. He might be right; who knows? But I’ll tell you this: From what we know of Stroud, I wouldn’t bet on him not being a flop of an NFL quarterback.
Yes, there are things beyond his control that have everything to do with the situation he is put in, but he’s been proving people wrong all of his life, and I like his chances in the National Football League as well.
Show ’em CJ
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