Moving on from Sam Howell an easy call for Commanders

Ralph Vacchiano

NFC East Reporter

In the 2022 NFL Draft, when Adam Peters was the assistant general manager of the San Francisco 49ers, he saw his team strike gold in a way that almost never happens. They found their eventual franchise quarterback, Brock Purdy, with the last pick in the entire draft.

By the time Purdy emerged as the 49ers starter later in the season and led them all the way to the NFC Championship Game, Peters had proof that franchise quarterbacks aren’t always found at the top of the draft. He could see, first-hand, that with good scouting they can be found anywhere.

And that’s true. But there’s also another lesson that Peters, now the GM of the Washington Commanders, took with him from the Purdy experience.

“If we thought he was that good,” Peters said at the NFL scouting combine on Tuesday, “we probably wouldn’t have waited until the last pick.”

And that’s why there should be no doubt about Peters intentions with the No. 2 pick in the NFL Draft this April, because this isn’t really a difficult decision. The Washington Commanders are going to take a quarterback in that spot as long as Peters and his staff are sure that at least one of them really is “that good.” They’re not going to sit back and hope that Sam Howell becomes a star in his third season. And they’re not going to take a shot at another Purdy-like miracle later in the draft.

Elite quarterbacks don’t come around very often. And if a GM thinks he sees one, he’d be a fool to let him pass.

Now, Peters, of course, wouldn’t say for sure if he thinks USC’s Caleb Williams or North Carolina’s Drake Maye — the consensus top two quarterbacks in this year’s draft — are elite. He insisted the Commanders’ plan for the No. 2 pick “hasn’t been decided yet by any stretch of the imagination.”

But, of course, he’s not fooling anyone — not in this draft. There is a pretty strong consensus among scouts and executives around the league that Williams,…

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