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Yes, so everyone's got their favorite first round, 'can't miss' prospect. I'm going to go in the other direction.
I think this guy would be a great value pick as a 7th round supplemental pick or later.

Brandon Doughty, WKU.
(Lots of borrowing from here: http://www.hogshaven.com/2016/2/10/1092 ... doughty-qb )

The positives -- led the division formerly known as D-1 in passing yards with 5055, TD's 48, completion percentage 71.9%, third in Quarterback rating 176.5, and fifth in yards per attempt at 9.4.
Production is production, right? This guy produced! Also, in today's football, with practice limits, and coaching contact limits, a player needs to be more personaly responsible for their own improvement. This guy improved over his last 3 years. http://espn.go.com/college-football/pla ... on-doughty






The negatives: He doesn't have elite arm strength or size and on clips I've seen, he did birddogs receivers.

He was unimpressive in the all-star game, throwing 2 picks, including a pick 6:


Also, his 2015 LSU game proved that passing for 325 while completing +60% can sound a whole lot better than it looks -- but also, it was one of those Directional School vs. SEC school at home game, bad/slick turf, he seemed to play "better", relatively speaking, starting the middle of the 3d quarter, and this was his worst game of the year:


And in talking about record production, there's this:
http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/pla ... sing::none

Mike Tanier's Combine Notebook: Brandon Doughty Climbs the Board
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2620 ... =editorial
By Mike Tanier , NFL National Lead Writer Feb 27, 2016


INDIANAPOLIS — Brandon Doughty of Western Kentucky arrived at the NFL Scouting Combine as just another also-ran quarterback seeking a late-round opportunity to compete for a backup spot.

He leaves as one of the sleepers of this year’s draft class, an intriguing prospect who lacks the measurables of a Carson Wentz or Connor Cook but may make up for it with precision and timing.

Doughty put on a show during passing drills on Saturday, routinely pinpointing passes with a quick, consistent release and enough velocity. The performance verified Doughty’s game tape. He consistently anticipates open receivers and hits them in stride on shorter routes.

Doughty isn’t huge (6'3" but 213 pounds, with a wiry frame), lacks a cannon arm and runs just well enough to get out of his own way. But he threw 97 touchdown passes (!) in two years in Jeff Brohm’s Hilltoppers offense, which wasn’t as loaded with spread-option gadgetry as you might expect upon hearing that an unheralded quarterback threw for 97 touchdowns in two years in it.

Doughty is also one of the more colorful characters at this year’s combine. I had the pleasure of sitting in on his small-table interview. Doughty is passionate, unscripted and a little kooky. He reminds me of the kind of young man who runs the soundboard at a Christian heavy metal concert.

Here’s Doughty on his passion for the game: “Some guys play this game because they love it, some guys play it because they are it. I am football. This is my life.”

Here he is on getting married next week: “My fiancee, she calls it a ‘football muffin.’”

On his biggest weakness: “I am the worst loser in America. I have to be a better loser.”

On meeting big-name prospects here at the combine: “I don’t know anything about college football. I can only tell you about the defense we played. Number 32, number 45, I know all those guys, but I don’t know names.”

On facing LSU in a torrential downpour: “Man I wish we could play LSU every dang week, man. It’s just cool. Just the atmosphere, people around the field, people throwing popcorn at you and stuff. I’m like, ‘Man, this is cool!’”

“Before the warm-ups, I was like, ‘Man, we are not gonna play this game. There’s no way. It was like four inches deep on my cleats.' I was like, ‘Dang, I need some new cleats.’”

In between the loopier remarks, Doughty broke down the coverages LSU used against Western Kentucky and demonstrated an impressive knowledge of the game. Doughty wasn’t stamped from the cookie cutter, but he sounds bright and dedicated, even if his personality might turn off some of the league’s stodgiest decision-makers.

The scuttlebutt on the floor has Doughty climbing into the fourth round. With talk of Chase Daniel leaving Kansas City for an opportunity elsewhere, I can see Andy Reid selecting Doughty and tutoring him in the secrets of the West Coast offense (and teaching him how to be a little less interesting when the press is around).

Don’t stick Doughty at the top of your mock-draft projections just yet, but keep your eye on him. The gap between him and bigger-name prospects like Cardale Jones (whose day ended early due to a hamstring injury), Paxton Lynch and Christian Hackenberg is smaller than you think.

Continues: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2620 ... =editorial

Yeah I've been talking him up for awhile. Unfortunately the Rams aren't in a position to draft another project QB. And unlike what was tweeted above, he played poorly in the Shrine game and lost some cred there

Seems a good fit for New Orleans IMO

dieterbrock wrote:Yeah I've been talking him up for awhile. Unfortunately the Rams aren't in a position to draft another project QB. And unlike what was tweeted above, he played poorly in the Shrine game and lost some cred there

Seems a good fit for New Orleans IMO

Saints drafted their project QB last year with Garrett Grayson. Though they could drop Grayson and I'd love to pick him up.

OldSchool wrote:

dieterbrock wrote:Yeah I've been talking him up for awhile. Unfortunately the Rams aren't in a position to draft another project QB. And unlike what was tweeted above, he played poorly in the Shrine game and lost some cred there

Seems a good fit for New Orleans IMO

Saints drafted their project QB last year with Garrett Grayson. Though they could drop Grayson and I'd love to pick him up.

I watch my share of Saints games with friends from New Orleans and they were screaming for Grayson to get some playing time at the end of the season, much like us and Mannion...

OldSchool wrote:

dieterbrock wrote:Yeah I've been talking him up for awhile. Unfortunately the Rams aren't in a position to draft another project QB. And unlike what was tweeted above, he played poorly in the Shrine game and lost some cred there

Seems a good fit for New Orleans IMO

Saints drafted their project QB last year with Garrett Grayson. Though they could drop Grayson and I'd love to pick him up.

My bad, I totally forgot about that. I was thinking they still had that backup who the Rams tried to poach off their PS but they signed him instead.
Yeah Grayson. He was the apple of many eyes last year

dieterbrock wrote:

OldSchool wrote:

dieterbrock wrote:Yeah I've been talking him up for awhile. Unfortunately the Rams aren't in a position to draft another project QB. And unlike what was tweeted above, he played poorly in the Shrine game and lost some cred there

Seems a good fit for New Orleans IMO

Saints drafted their project QB last year with Garrett Grayson. Though they could drop Grayson and I'd love to pick him up.

My bad, I totally forgot about that. I was thinking they still had that backup who the Rams tried to poach off their PS but they signed him instead.
Yeah Grayson. He was the apple of many eyes last year

Mine too, really wanted him over Mannion.