The quarterback coming out of Alabama, Mac Jones has been rising draft boards recently. Not only did he lead the Crimson Tide to a National Championship this season, but Mac Jones was also a stand-out at this year's Senior Bowl. Jones is much more of a pocket guy, which could be why he's projected to go late in the first round or early in the second of the 2021 NFL Draft. However, Mel Kiper seems to think highly of the young prospect, comparing him to the seven-time Super Bowl champion, Tom Brady, per Mike Reiss of ESPN:
“I hate to say, but he kind of has a little bit of [Tom] Brady in him,” Kiper said. “I'm not saying he's ever going to be Tom Brady. He wouldn't be close, probably. But he has that competitiveness, and he's so smart — he picked that offense up [at the Senior Bowl] like it was nothing. Other quarterbacks were struggling with the verbiage and — ‘boom!' — he was in and out of the huddle quicker than anybody I've ever seen.
“Then he sees the field. He's tremendously accurate to all levels. He doesn't have the ‘wow' arm, like Brady didn't either coming into the league. And like Brady, he's not real mobile, not a runner. But biding time, slipping and sliding, he did it in the championship game. So there are some similarities there.”
Mac Jones going eighth overall to the Carolina Panthers is the highest projection he's received so far.
Carolina may fall in love with him, but with the potential to select either Justin Fields or Zach Wilson, it would be shocking to see the Panthers choose Mac Jones over either one of those two. Either way, Carolina is likely to draft a quarterback in the 2021 NFL draft.
In three years with the Crimson Tide, Mac Jones managed to rack up 6,162 passing yards and 56 touchdowns against only seven interceptions, while completing 74.3 percent of his passe.
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