“I will say this — I think what rubs people the wrong way, maybe like you, Stephen A., I know it’s on my radar,” Kellerman said of Fields’ draft stock. “Sometimes, quarterbacks rise, sometimes they fall, but what I’ve noticed, in recent years after decades of artificial barriers being put in place for quarterbacks is that vis-a-vis white quarterbacks, black quarterbacks in the draft tend to fall pre-draft — their evaluations.”
He added, “And sometimes, it’s right, like Daniel Jones looks like he’s going to be better than Dwayne Haskins. And sometimes it’s wrong, like Mitch Trubisky is not as good as Deshaun Watson or certainly not Patrick Mahomes, right? … But the point is the correlation that can be made, is that your status falls, vis-a-vis white quarterbacks, and so that’s why my antenna are up when I notice one, two and three this year – white guy, white guy, white guy. But that may be correct. Like, we need to see in the end … how these guys turn out as pros.”