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The Ringer Fantasy Football Show on J.J. McCarthy

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The Elias Sports Bureau had this poll that JG McCarthy is one of four first-run quarterbacks in the past 25 years who started 10 or fewer games to the team that drafted them. And the others are Paxton Lynch, Trey Lance, Johnny Menzel. So those are just like the worst quarterbacks drafted basically in the first round.
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McCarthy grouped with historically bad first-round QBs; source expects him to struggle.

McCarthy is one of four first-round quarterbacks in the past 25 years to start 10 or fewer games for the team that drafted them, alongside Paxton Lynch, Trey Lance, and Johnny Manziel—a cohort characterized as 'just like the worst quarterbacks drafted basically in the first round.' The source assesses McCarthy as 'probably bad' and expects he will 'probably suck,' though acknowledges a small chance (one in 10) he could be good.

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