Should the Redskins like any of these quarterbacks enough, Gruden is comfortable drafting another quarterback with the team's first-round pick. At that point they'll give their selection "every opportunity" to earn the starting job and reward him if he proves to be the best option. Otherwise they'll allow him to develop while McCoy or Keenum lead the first-team offense.

"You can't reach for the quarterback of the future," Gruden said. "He has to be the right fit, and he has to fit what that quarterback is. If we don't feel like as an organization that this guy fits that criteria, then we can't reach and take him just because he's a quarterback. Maybe we think it's a second or third-rounder that we think can develop into that guy that's not as risky as the first-rounder. Those first-round picks, you've got to hit on those first-rounders to be a successful franchise. You can't just reach and hope to goodness that that's the guy of your future. You have to be right on those guys, and sometimes it could be a second or third or fourth rounder, not so much a first."