"J.J. McCarthy is a year younger than Cam Ward and Shedeur Sanders, he's coming off the (knee) injury, but he's a kid, if you look at his grade last year compared to the grades this year of the quarterbacks, he would be the No. 1 guy, he would be ahead of Drew Allar, he would be ahead of certainly Cam and Shedeur," Kiper said on ESPN's "Unsportsmanlike" on Thursday.
That the Giants could potentially seek a trade to find their franchise quarterback is a reflection of the lukewarm view of this year's draft class.
Just because Sanders and Ward are the best signal-callers in this year's class doesn't necessarily mean they are franchise quarterbacks and reaching for one of them - think Daniel Jones - could set a team back.
It's hard to say whether every team ranks McCarthy, 21, higher than any of this year's quarterbacks, but Kiper is not the first pundit to say last year's crop outranked this year's crew.
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