It's Jameis Winston and Marcus Mariota (we think) and everyone else.
Again ... we think.
What would happen if Ohio State's Cardale Jones, fresh off his three-game championship blitz — winning the Big Ten title, followed by the first two ever College Football Playoff games — entered the NFL draft?
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It's not outrageous to consider. He's 22 year old, eligible (a redshirt sophomore) and now perhaps staring at competition from two-time Big Ten Player of the Year Braxton Miller, 12-game winner J.T. Barrett and even two highly touted high-school recruits.
Oh, it's nice to be Urban Meyer. But it's also not bad to be Jones.
Yahoo Sports' Dan Wetzel wrote about Jones' fascinating draft dilemma after Ohio State beat Oregon for all the marbles Monday night. Could he really declare after a 94-pass college career? And if he did, how high would he go?
Yes, just one more intriguing debate. Oh, Winston vs. Mariota will still dominate all the pre-draft chatter, and they clearly are the two most battle-tested and highly thought-of prospects in this year's class. possibly duking it out for first-pick honors.
But in a class where some underwhelming candidates — Brett Hundley, Bryce Petty and a few others — are the prime options to become the third quarterback drafted, Jones could really shake up the discussion.
From third string to third QB drafted. An unreal story would go fully through the looking glass at that point.
There is some history for guys with only a handful of college starts — or, in the case of Matt Cassel, zero starts at USC — having success in the NFL, but you have to go back a few years.
I spoke Monday with former NFL executive and NFL Network analyst Charlie Casserly, who is promoting the Vizio Top Value Performer, about this quarterback class, and he thinks — as things stand now — it's Winston and Mariota ... and a big dropoff thereafter.
"It seems to me to be a two-man class," Casserly said. "You've got Winston and you've got Mariota, and right now there's a big dropoff to the next guy. Who is that next guy? We don't know yet.
"A year ago, we had some late risers, but NFL people had heard of Jimmy Garoppolo; they knew about Tom Savage, even though he needed to be looked at closer.
"I haven't done all my work on these guys yet, but the buzz among NFL teams just isn't as strong after those first two guys. It's pretty clear there's a divide right now. Would [Jones] change that? Boy, I don't know ..."
So, as Bob Dylan once sang ... Do you, Mr. Jones? Right now, he's saying he's not ready.
Will that change in the next few days, by which time underclassmen must declare for this year's draft? We shall see.
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Eric Edholm is a writer for Shutdown Corner on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at edholm@yahoo-inc.com or follow him on Twitter! Follow @Eric_Edholm
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