Regardless of how you feel about the Falcons selecting Michael Penix Jr. with the eighth overall pick, he is positioned to lead the team in the future. Behind Kirk Cousins, Terry Fontenot is quite confident in his choice, and his progress is very important. If it fails, it won’t be long until employment applications are being filled out by every employee in the company.I hope this works out well for Falcons fans’ sanity, but if the 2021 draft class has shown us anything, it’s that there are no guarantees when it comes to the quarterback position. Less than half of all first round draft selections end up being successful. The latest draft class that was thought to be stacked with franchise quarterback prospects was 2021. Only one of the five players selected in the top 15—first overall choice Trevor Lawrence—had his fifth-year option exercised. Although they were essentially no-brainers, Zach Wilson, Trey Lance, Justin Fields, and Mac Jones all had their selections rejected. All of them were traded for a few deflated footballs and whistles, and none of them are with the teams that drafted them. Similar to 2021, everyone had high hopes for the quarterbacks in the 2024 draft. Six signal callers went within the first 12 picks as a result. History indicates that three of them will probably end up being starting quarterbacks for a considerable amount of time, but things may go much worse if this class is any like the one in 2021. The Falcons’ procedure is at the centre of the current national narrative around Penix. No one has ever paid a quarterback $180 million in free agency just to draft his replacement before he had a chance to snap a football. Penix the prospect hasn’t received much attention as a result. The former quarterback for Washington had a distinct skill set. He has one of the greatest arms you’ll ever see, and he is an amazing athlete. Penix isn’t the first athletic quarterback in the league with a powerful arm, though. Both in the past and the future, a great deal of people will fail. Regardless of where a team selects, finding the ideal quarterback in the draft is frequently a crapshoot. Hopefully, the Falcons made the correct decision by following their instincts.
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