Jimmy Clausen Coming To Town…

8:54 pm EST April 1st, 2010 | Sports | 9 Comments


Jimmy Clausen: Notre Dame highlight video

I have the sinking feeling we’re going to be drafting a QB early, either one of the big stars – Clausen, Bradford – in the first round or, YUCK, someone like Tebow in the second…

The Washington Redskins hold the fourth overall pick in the NFL draft — and it appears that former Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen is on their radar.

The Redskins have scheduled Clausen to fly to Washington Friday night and spend Saturday visiting with team officials, including coach Mike Shanahan, a league source told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter.

The Redskins also will hold a private workout with Clausen in South Bend, Ind., on April 15, a workout that Shanahan is expected to attend, the source said.

Last week, Shanahan said he would not name a starting quarterback ahead of training camp.

I fear first round QB picks. I remember thinking Heath Shuler was the ticket to the glory days, and not only did he turn out to be a megabust quarterback, he’s also a sucky member of congress.

The first round to be just always seems to have 1,000 Akili Smith, Ryan Leaf, Tim Couch guys for every Peyton or Eli Manning at QB.

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9 Responses to “Jimmy Clausen Coming To Town…”

  1. Mark S. says:
    April 1, 2010 at 9:08 pm

    The first round to be just always seems to have 1,000 Akili Smith, Ryan Leaf, Tim Couch guys for every Peyton or Eli Manning at QB.

    That’s the damn truth, and you have to pay a first round QB tens of millions of dollars. And at least with other positions, you can figure out pretty quickly whether they can play or not at the NFL level. QB’s are like five year projects.

  2. Parthenon says:
    April 1, 2010 at 9:24 pm

    If they’re smart they take Russell Okung. Bradford rolled up big stats against crappy defenses and it seems to me that Sanchez was an outlier for juniors doing well in the NFL.

  3. kth says:
    April 1, 2010 at 10:15 pm

    If you are a bad enough team to have earned of the first couple of picks with your record and not via a trade, a QB is never going to save you. The Steelers did it right: Roethlisberger was the last piece of the puzzle, not the first (the possibility that he is a repeat sex offender notwithstanding). My beloved Houston Texans, having been bitten once by picking David Carr with the first overall pick, passed on Vince Young, Reggie Bush, and Matt Leinart, and picked DE Mario Williams. All the Texans fans were furious, but the pick has been resoundingly vindicated by the subsequent careers of all involved (Vince seems like he has turned it around, but it’s obvious in hindsight that a cellar-dwelling team devoid of leadership was no place for him to establish himself).

    If the best draft prospects are QBs, rebuilding teams should trade those picks down for a greater quantity of lower-round picks and/or veterans. But they hardly ever do, because the fans just go crazy and not in a good way.

  4. A. Alex says:
    April 1, 2010 at 10:30 pm

    Clausen couldn’t win on the college level, what makes the Skins think he can win at the pro level? Oh, right—my bad! We are talking about the skins. Clausen it is….

  5. Burn says:
    April 1, 2010 at 11:02 pm

    I cannot wait for you to live blog the draft, Oliver.

    Spills, thrills, and bellyaches abound.

  6. Oliver Willis says:
    April 2, 2010 at 12:04 am

    Okung is who I want them to pick. Protect the QB and then they can talk about putting some rookie back there.

  7. Crusty Dem says:
    April 2, 2010 at 1:49 am

    Okung is the right pick, I can’t imagine they’ll reach this high for Clausen, his mechanics are as bad as Tebow’s. If McCoy is around in the 2nd round, which isn’t likely, I would think that’d be a reasonable pick.. When you need as many parts as the Redskins do, you just need the best players available..

  8. Parthenon says:
    April 2, 2010 at 5:58 am

    Exactly. Brick Ferguson (to whom Okung is being compared) was there a couple years prior to Sanchez. That’s a smart model to follow.

  9. Frank Chow says:
    April 2, 2010 at 11:00 am

    I am with Parthenon. We need a line. It has been a glaring issue for a couple of years now and there is a reasonable choice available. There isn’t anything a QB from this draft offers that Jason Campbell doesn’t already supply.

    The problem is for the past couple of years every one in the front office has been thinking they are only 1 or 2 guys away from a championship. It hasn’t played out that way and it won’t play out that way this year either. Time to build a solid foundation and leave the pretty boy QB obsession to some other team.