While many cannot agree on where Anthony Richardson should land in the 2023 NFL Draft, everyone can agree on one thing. Richardson is an athletic marvel, a freak of nature.
If you didn’t know it after the performance for the ages he put together at the NFL Scouting Combine, you definitely knew it by the end of his Florida pro day, when he performed a perfect backflip for scouts after dropping their jaws moments before with a 70-yard bomb.
Yes, Richardson, who had just one full season as a starter in college, is raw. But even those who feel he should have stayed another year at college or is too much of a risk to select in the top 10 picks of the first round, can definitively say that he is an NFL Draft prospect with immense potential.
It’s that potential that has seen the Florida product skyrocket up teams’ draft boards.
Richardson, who is saying all the right things about his work ethic and determination to be great, just needs to land in the right spot.
But what is the right spot for the blazing fast, linebacker-sized signal-caller with a rocket arm?
Well for starters, it needs to be a team with an incumbent at the quarterback position, as anyone who thinks Richardson, who completed just 53.8 percent of his passes in 2022, is ready to be a day-one starter is kidding themselves.
He needs time to develop into the top-tier starter he could one day become.
The Detroit Lions and Seattle Seahawks immediately come to mind as potential destinations. Would the New England Patriots, perhaps uncertain with the future of Mac Jones, take a chance on the Gators star?
