Paul was the one who said he wasn’t a top 20 QB. No one in the FO cares what hue wants. That’s been clear the last 2 years with what he’s leaked to silver.
Here's the full quote:
"We have to make judgments on the individual players and we're not always going to be right. But in this particular case, we just didn't feel it was necessarily the right bet to make for us at this time. Again, it comes down to individual evaluation of a player. We will not always be right on those type of things. I think the hardest part, and where we have to stay the most disciplined, as much as you want a player, you can't invent him if he doesn't exist. In a given year, there may be two or three NFL-ready quarterbacks at the college level. In another year, there literally may be zero. There just may be not be anybody in that year who's good enough to be a top 20 quarterback in the NFL. Even though you have a desperate need for one, you have to resist the temptation of taking that guy just because you have a need if you don't believe he's one of those 20 guys at the end of the day. I think that's the hardest part, just maintaining your discipline because you have the need. That's what we did this year."
Now... even if you want to go ahead and ignore the whole "DePodesta doesn't have final say over the roster" thing, he still says "we" and "we're" numerous times, meaning himself, Sashi, Hue, Berry and probably Haslam himself.
Above all else, Hue Jackson and Pep Hamilton weren't sold on Wentz. That eliminated him from consideration from the jump.
Think of it this way, drafting a QB at the top of the draft is, for all intents and purposes, a marriage between the player and the organization. The QB is going to get as much rope as humanly possible because he's the on-field face of the organization. EVERYONE... head coach, offensive coordinator, QB coach, general manager, personnel director, owner... everyone has to be sold on the guy or it's not going to work.
