Quarterback Week: Two of Mike Farrell's biggest ranking regrets are Gators

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Rankings regrets are a part of life at Rivals.com and, having done this job for nearly 20 years, I have more than most. But it’s Rivals QB Week, so I’ll focus on five rankings decisions I regret over the years without focusing on the two-stars who made it or the five-stars who busted. These are the five guys I evaluated closely and wish I had handled better.

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In looking more closely at these two former Florida Gators, I decided to add my two cents to Farrell's thoughts.

Farrell: The 2011 class was the second year we didn’t have a five-star quarterback, but my regret on Driskel is not that we had him rated too high. It’s actually that I pushed hard for him to be a five-star and was luckily voted down.

Driskel was a guy I saw quite often and his performance at the Under Armour All-America Game made me push for five-stars because he was not only big with a strong arm but he could run. Driskel had all the offers but he didn’t have a lot of experience out of high school and ran as much as he threw his senior year. I fell in love with his frame and raw abilities as well as his mobility, but looking back I overlooked his accuracy issues and lack of production on the field.

Wheeler: Was being ranked as the No. 32 prospect in the nation a bit high? Probably. However, don't let Driskel's results at Florida fool you, he is a better quarterback than he was able to show while playing his limited role in seven straight years of a dysfunctional Florida offense.

Look at his time at Lousiana Tech and his being drafted by the San Fransico 49ers as a better indication of who he is as a player than how he performed in a Will Muschamp offense.

You don't enter your second year on an NFL squad if you are lacking in talent.

The tweet is now famous but let’s show it again…

Farrell: I was the one who pushed for Harris to be a top 75 player in the class of 2014 and No. 3 at dual-threat quarterback behind DeShaun Watson and Will Grier, although luckily I never pushed for him to be a five-star. Despite his 5-foot-11 size (could have been closer to 5-foot-10), I loved the way he worked in the pocket and could throw downfield without having to create his own passing lanes as most short quarterbacks do. He threw a beautiful ball but also had that ability to run and create.

But now I can see I was too enamored with a short quarterback’s ability to throw and see over the line of scrimmage, and perhaps too caught up in the success of Russell Wilson and Johnny Manziel at the time. The odd thing is, everyone knows I am tough on short quarterbacks in general with my sometimes old-school thinking, so it puzzles me that I let my guard down on this one.

Wheeler: While I did defend the ranking of Driskel, there's no such luck here.

I will give kudos to Farrell for going back and finding that tweet to post (if he hadn't someone else likely would have). However, lets be honest, it would have been nice if he (we) could have forgotten it.

Actually, the entire spectacle of Harris as a quarterback at the University of Florida - from his recruiting process, through his playing days, right up until his transfer, was worth forgetting.

Remember back when Florida 'stole' him from Florida State. Only, the Gators didn't really steal him so much as the UF staff offered him a chance to play quarterback while FSU wanted him to play his more realistic position of defensive back.

Truthfully, he should have listened to the Seminoles at that time.

His older brother Brandon Harris, with basically the same measurables, was a second round draft choice who played five NFL seasons. That isn't to say that Treon Harris would have done the same. However, his path to the NFL was as a cornerback, not a quarterback.

Though it is as a signal caller that he will line up this fall for Tennessee State.

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