In his latest mock draft on ESPN.com, Todd McShay dropped Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson from No. 10 to No. 12 on Wednesday, while dropping North Carolina’s Mitchell Trubisky even further down the board.

“I think both of those guys, in my opinion, are truly late first or second round grades,” McShay said during a teleconference call with the media on Wednesday. “It will not surprise me if one or both of them go in the top 10, but I think as we get closer, people are starting to realize there is more value at other positions if you are talking about the first five or six picks of this draft, specifically on the defensive side of the ball.”

The reason McShay has Watson going No. 12, and as the first quarterback off the board, is his character, leadership and his football IQ.

“Obviously when you talk about Deshaun Watson, his character is off the charts,” the draft expert said. “He is football brilliant. He picks things up. He has Great leadership, great work ethic, and he is extremely accurate.”

McShay said he did a six-game study on Watson and said the Clemson quarterback completed 79 percent of his passes within 25 yards of the line of scrimmage. However, he added Watson struggled to complete the long passes in 2016, as he hit on just 29 percent of the passes beyond 25 yards.

“I think with his deep-ball accuracy, and he knows it, it needs to improve,” McShay said. “He is working on it with Jordan Palmer now. His deep ball accuracy needs to improve, but it can improve. I think there are small mechanical tweaks he needs to work on and it will take time for it to become natural, but that is one area he needs to improve.”

Watson will try to show off his improving accuracy at Clemson’s Pro Day on Thursday. He already showed marked improvement during the NFL Scouting Combine earlier this month, but he now has had a couple of weeks to get better and show the scouts, general managers and coaches he is a guy that can improve with a little more coaching.

“I would classify him as good arm strength, not elite, but certainly is capable of making throws that you need to in the NFL,” McShay said. “He is not Matthew Stafford or some of those elite arm strength guys, but Tom Brady had average arm strength coming into the league and he has improved upon it a little bit and obviously can make any throw he wants to make and has done pretty well.”

Another area McShay thinks Watson can improve on is seeing the whole field.

“It was more half-field reads. There was a lot of zone-read option and the ball coming out quickly,” McShay said. “There was a lot of stuff on the move. I saw him leave a lot of open receivers … a lot of throws on the field. Part of that too is decision making. He is not used to having to go through progressions from one side of the field to the other and doing it very quickly, and I think sometimes he did not see linebackers dropping or guys squatting, safeties coming from the backside, those types of things. It was part of the reason why he had 30 interceptions the last two years.”

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