Last week, we mentioned the amount of time the team brass spent with Young (and the time put in with Young’s parents), as well as Young’s S2 score—a 98, better than previous high scorers Josh Allen, Joe Burrow and Justin Fields—and how owner David Tepper is said to be a believer in the cognitive test.
This week, there’s a smaller detail coming—Ohio State’s C.J. Stroud and Kentucky’s Will Levis will come in for their 30 visits Tuesday. On one hand, sometimes teams do bring in the players they’re most interested in closer to the deadline for such visits (that’s Wednesday). On the other, if Carolina was going to do a full day of introducing Stroud to everyone in the building, chances are they’d bring him in without another QB there.
Young, for what it’s worth, came in on his own. And it makes sense he’d be the pick, if he indeed is. And, yes, I’m definitely making too much of this.
That said, it’s not unanimous, but in making calls this week, there’s a strong consensus on two things with Young. One, he has the best tape of the quarterbacks in the draft. And two, if he was 6'3" and 220 pounds, there’d be no discussion on who was going first. “Outside of the size,” said one offensive coordinator, “he does everything the way you want a QB to do it.”
At any rate, the visits from Stroud and Levis wrap up an exhaustive couple of months of work on the class for Carolina GM Scott Fitterer and coach Frank Reich. It’s just about decision time.
