Have we been thinking about franchise QBs all wrong? CJ Carr, Darian Mensah and the Brock Purdy predicament

CJ Carr running Notre Dame's two-minute offense against Miami to end the first half is all you need to know about who he is.

It's as surgical a series of plays as you'll see this season; he's calm before the snap, unpanicked after, even when he's avoiding the rush, always has his eyes downfield, and throws with the accuracy and precision that will make you a first-rounder, even if you lack the "prototypical physical tools" NFL teams covet in their franchise QBs. When you look like you've been doing this for a decade, no one cares if you can throw the ball 80 yards or run a 4.3 forty.

Heck of a 2 Min Drive from CJ Carr! pic.twitter.com/HxMYEJksnu

That drive ended with an 18-yard laser to Micah Gilbert to give the Fighting Irish a 17-3 halftime lead. And while they didn't cruise to a blowout win – credit to Darian Mensah and the Canes for battling back – it did reinforce a question I've been thinking about as we work our way through another "can't-miss" quarterback class that has, once again, missed:

Have we been evaluating the position backward?

Every fall, NFL teams (and folks in the media too)…

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