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The couple times I have seen Burrow I think he just seemed to make all the right throws. But he is what two years older than Lawrence and he is a coaches kid probably a little more polished right now.

Why should Burrow be more polished than Lawrence?

His dad's a coach- a career defensive coach. He can impart a work ethic and love of the game, but that's not going to address the mechanics of playing QB.

Burrow being older- he was riding the bench at Ohio State while Lawrence was playing high school ball. Burrow got better coaching, but Lawrence was playing.

Burrow transferred into LSU after the spring game, into a new system. Lawrence at that point had as much time in their respective systems, and looked better. Lawrence came back into the same system this year, while Burrow was in a new one again. Lawrence should be more comfortable, given that.

Burrow's ascension this year most closely parallels Kurt Warner the year the Rams won the Super Bowl; he has bounced around in his college career (like Warner did in the pro level), then just elevated to an obscene level this year.

If you draft Lawrence, you are drafting on potential. If you draft Burrow, you are drafting an established quantity- great accuracy, good fast reads, unflappable, killer instinct... in this scheme.

I think you can mold Lawrence to schemes, but you'd be foolish to put Burrow into any other scheme than what he's running. He's gone from decent prospect to elite record setter in this, so this is clearly what he's suited to run, and he runs it as well as it can be. He could step right into, say, the Saints offense. But you put him in something different, you're gambling.