The 2021 draft class has more than a few quarterbacks who busted. There\u2019s one guy who, four years later, is finally breaking out.<\/p>\n
Davis Mills, the third pick in round three (taken one spot after the Vikings selected Kellen Mond), has won three games in a row, beating the Jaguars, Titans, and Bills. And while he\u2019ll likely take a seat for C.J. Stroud when the Texans face the Colts in Week 13, Mills has done enough to get the attention of the league at large.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want it to be seen that I am capable of going out there and winning big games,\u201d Mills told PFT by phone after Houston\u2019s 36-29 win over the Jaguars. \u201cThis was a big divisional win for our team as we\u2019re still continuing to push forward throughout the season, we\u2019ve got a lot of games still to go ahead of us and we want to start the momentum to on a streak and get in the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Under Mills, who gave the Broncos a run for their money after Stroud exited with a concussion, the Texans have surged from 3-5 afterthought to 6-5 contender. And Mills has supplemented his 26 starts from 2021 and 2022 with a series of solid performances that will potentially give him an eventual chance to be a starter elsewhere.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s signed through 2026, at a base salary next year of $6 million. It makes him a potential trade target in the offseason, given the not-so-robust class of free agents and incoming group of rookies who, for now, doesn\u2019t seem to be as promising as it once was.<\/p>\n
Against the Bills, Mills completed 16 of 30 passes for 153 yards and two touchdowns. Coupled with a dominant defense, he was able to outduel defending MVP Josh Allen.<\/p>\n
For the season, Mills has thrown 150 passes, completing 88 of them for 879 yards, five touchdowns, and one interception. <\/p>\n
However it plays out for Mills in the future, he\u2019s making himself far more desirable than three of the five 2021 first-rounders: Zach Wilson, Trey Lance, Justin Fields. And Mills may have, over the last three-plus games, played his way onto the radar screen of teams that will looking for a new quarterback next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2021 draft class has more than a few quarterbacks who busted. There\u2019s one guy who, four years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-304706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}