I'll only hang onto McDougall for S18. Welsh will be ready to go and overtaken McDougall in 2 seasons. Then Leslie is climb up there also.

Barren probably is a bit harsh to describe the upcoming QB situation. It just wont be a plentiful as previous few seasons. We've had a alot to pick from recently of great caliber, and al mostly equal.

I have a QB2 and QB3 that will be far beyond the current crop. But That is only 1 of 3 possible QBs that we would normally select for the roster. So others have to come from somewhere.

We have a few notable 5* guys with high intel floating around, but quite a few of them have fairly low consistency AND have ceased in development (bot teams). Ablett has a couple of build issues, similar to McDougall initially (who is better now, but definitely had to debut a bit earlier than expected), but he doesn't have an active team behind him, doesn't have as high primaries, and has a lot less consistency. Lynden Tenace is a better all round build (19s which is nice), low cons (but better than Ablett), but really bad stamina. Like, worse than Bryan Bandy when he was first called up (an area he practically doubled later on). Like, not even close to yellow + bot team. Jarrod Jolly would likely be the best of the rest, has much better con than the above two, reasonable INT, reasonably built (though uneven), but also doesn't really have stamina either (though at least it's yellow... even if minimum yellow). We could always also call up Pierce Boyle again if he hasn't retired hahaha (though he'd be hitting decline next season). He's got the skills, but also lacks consistency.

Then, unless we find some new 5* guys we've previously missed (it can happen, the Bandy pickup was a bit like that, and he really took over a season later), we're down to 4.5* BPOS. There were some nice ones, but they're all either overaged, since retired, or a bit iffy. That said, the amount of these guys looked at so far (given our previous QB stocks) is pretty low, so there may be some solid 4.5* guys out there. Jeff DeLorean comes to mind (Tiger Bay Buccs QB), though from salary alone appears to be limited to the 18 range (which can still do the job of course).

So yeah, there are options, but it just looks barren compared to previous incarnations (the fact that Jett Bowden only ever got called up this season and subsequently, may only ever play 1 NT game is pretty indicative of how spoilt we were).

EDIT: Also, just because QB prospects are sold onwards doesn't mean they can't still make a contribution! I see McDougall likely staying in the team until 30 at least, regardless of whether he's leading the Wildcats.

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