The Athletic: Ranking the most to least ideal QB-needy teams

for top draft prospects to land.

The Athletic has taken a look at 7 NFL teams who may be looking to draft a QB next week. In their own words:

"Young quarterbacks have a hierarchy of needs to be met to self-actualize into franchise quarterbacks. They need pass protection, weapons to throw to, a run game and defense to support them, and a play-caller whom they can trust. Of course, some young quarterbacks are talented enough to overcome not having every need met, but teams shouldn’t count on that."

The Athletic graded each team on the basis of the above 5 criteria that would aid in the rookie QBs overall development (or maybe lead to failure). Here is the Giants Report Card:

Pass blocking: F
Run game: C
Weapons: D (potential F)
Play-caller: B
Defense: C

I utilized the numeric scale (at bottom) to convert these grades into an average GPA based on a 4-point scale. The Giants GPA is 1.6, which hovers somewhere between a C- and a D+. Here are the GPAs for all 7 teams:

Minnesota 3.48
Chicago 3.20
Denver 3.00
New England 2.75
Las Vegas 2.68
Washington 1.94
Giants 1.60

Grade Conversion
A 4.0
A- 3.7
B+ 3.3
B 3.0
B- 2.7
C+ 2.3
C 2.0
C- 1.7
D+ 1.3
D 1.0
D- .7
F 0