Is Kyler Murray really worth the #1 pick in the 2019 NFL Draft?

Leave it to now-former University of Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray, the reigning Heisman Trophy winner himself (even though I’ll die on the hill of “Tua Tagovailoa was more deserving of said award than Murray”), to take what looked like it could be a very unextraordinary, unsexy, and maybe even outright mundane 2019 NFL Draft, and turn everything on its proverbial head.

So, should Kyler Murray be considered for the #1 Pick in the 2019 NFL Draft?

In any other year, Murray is much more of an afterthought. In any other year, we’d come to our senses and realize that Murray is nothing more than a slightly shorter Lamar Jackson or less mentally-unstable but stronger-armed Johnny Manziel, and we’re pushing Murray up draft boards after lazily comparing him to Baker Mayfield, just because they both played at a high level in Lincoln Riley’s offense and won the Heisman Trophy.

But the truth is that in this year’s draft class, the other top quarterback prospects — namely Dwayne Haskins, Drew Lock, and Daniel Jones — are about as exciting as a cardboard box. For quarterback-needy teams in the top half of this year’s NFL Draft, their high draft pick is the equivalent of giving them a $100,000 stipend to purchase a car, and forcing them to choose from an array of Toyota Corollas.