One of the things NFL Draft prognosticators typically hard on is a player’s “floor” or the player’s “ceiling”. What’s the player’s maximum potential? If this player never improves, how bad are they going to be? Are they a safe prospect?
Here ae the comparables for the Buffalo Bills’ 2018 NFL Draft class.
We’ve hashed through Allen’s major boom-bust nature plenty, and it’ll keep coming up through his whole career. His potential outcome could track through a wide swath of outcomes. At his worst, he could end up like a similar athletic project QB in Jake Locker.