Why Carson Beck didn't get drafted in NFL Draft 1st round after rumors
Beck will have to wait his turn.
Why Carson Beck didn't get drafted in NFL Draft 1st round after rumors originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The rumors came out late in NFL Draft week, the kind that seem important but also are hard to make sense of.
The reports were saying that Carson Beck, the Georgia-turned-Miami QB, could find his way into the first round on Thursday night. Well, the first round came and went, and Beck was still waiting -- which had been the expectation most of the way. Indiana's Fernando Mendoza went No.
1 overall to the Raiders , as expected. The Rams surprised people by taking Alabama's Ty Simpson 13th. 2026 NFL DRAFT HQ: Live tracker | Pick-by-pick grades | Best players still available And that was it for the quarterbacks picked.
Beck will get drafted eventually, but in the end, those rumors didn't mean much. BEST DRAFT NAMES: Ephesians Prysock | R Mason Thomas | DeVonta Smith | Zxavian Harris Why didn't Carson Beck get drafted in 1st round? The reality is that Beck doesn't have enough QB talent to have been a first-round pick.