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Yahoo Sports: Johnny Manziel and other underclassmen might note Barkley, Wilson and Jones’ draft slide

The argument has been made that USC quarterback Matt Barkley wouldn't have gone in the top 10 of last year's draft, as some predicted when he decided to return for his senior season. He would have been picked apart before last year's draft, just as he was the past few months. That might be accurate. Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones, once ranked by both ESPN's draft analysts as the third best quarterback in last year's draft that saw Ryan Tannehill go eighth overall (and last year was a much better draft, by the way), stayed in school like Barkley. Maybe he ...

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