"Nothing is a sure thing. There's no Andrew Luck,NFL Jerseys China, no Peyton Manning. It is such a mixed bag with each player. Every one of them has positives. Every one of them has negatives. And if that's the way you end up feeling, why don't you just wait 'til later in the draft and take someone with the first pick you're sure will help you right now?" Spielman told SI.com.
Spielman could well have been trying to smoke-screen his desire to select one of the QBs with the eighth overall pick, but there was surely some truth to his explanation. With his own whiff on Christian Ponder (the 12th choice in 2011) and other high-profile busts on the radar of top decision-makers around the league, Spielman will be wary of taking a quarterback so high again 鈥?if there are significant questions about the player's skill set.