Drew Mestemaker Is Making a Case to Be the 2027 NFL Draft’s Top QB

We’ve only played seven weeks of college football, but the lauded 2027 NFL Draft class hasn’t exactly arrived with a bang.

Coming into the college football season, many NCAA football experts and NFL Draft gurus agreed that the 2027 college football season was due to be the year of the quarterback.

In the last two NFL Drafts, only four first-round quarterbacks were selected, and one of those was Ty Simpson, who immediately understood his assignment to sit behind Matthew Stafford until he decided he’s done playing for the Los Angeles Rams.

With a bunch of quarterbacks decided to return to college football – and then staying with their existing programs instead of transferring to new destinations in this NIL era – it felt like 2027 was finally due to be a huge quarterback year.

Outside of Oklahoma State’s Drew Mestemaker, that hasn’t materialized.

Mestemaker has been incredible. Even though his Heisman odds don’t touch the likes of Miami quarterback Darian Mensah, Ole Miss fan favorite Trinidad Chambliss or even Notre Dame’s C.J. Carr, the Oklahoma State quarterback is certainly making a polarizing case to NFL general managers.

His arm looks incredible, he’s making the right decisions and throwing for over 300 yards pretty much every week is how Mestemaker is making a name for himself. The 20-year-old arrived out of nowhere. He never never started a high school football game at quarterback. Despite offers to play defensive back, Mestemaker opted to walk onto North Texas as a quarterback, led the FBS in passing and followed head coach Eric Morris to Oklahoma State.

As preseason No. 1 overall pick favorites like Arch Manning has struggled and Oregon’s Dante Moore was injured, Mestemaker has taken advantage and shoehorned himself into first-round quarterback conversations – if not the top-rated passer in the class when this is all said and done.

Why Mestemaker shouldn’t go back to school

Ask Drew Allar how that went. He could’ve been a first-round pick before decided to return to Penn State, where he was injured and fell to the third round. How about Carson Beck? He was a third-round pick. Not all just because of his tape or deficiencies, but partially because he damn near aged himself out of being a franchise quarterback.

If Mestemaker can keep this up, there’s a real reason to buy in his rise in the 2027 NFL Draft. Oklahoma State’s November 14 matchup against Texas Tech will be an important game to watch, as it’ll be Mestemaker’s biggest test against a tough Red Raider defense.

But right now? Pencil him into Round 1. The New York Jets have three firsts. It certainly seems like the Miami Dolphins will need a quarterback. How about the Tennessee Titans? Would they replace Cam Ward? It’s the last season of Aaron Rodgers in the NFL, so what will that mean for Aaron Rodgers?

The landing spots will be plentiful. And it currently looks like the demand might outweigh the supply for the third straight NFL Draft.