Jameis Winston, or Marcus Mariota?

For the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the team with the first overall pick in the NFL Draft, the choice seemed to be written in ink. A vast majority of reports indicated the Bucs would take Winston, fully aware of the headaches he caused Florida State University's athletic department and willing to allow him time to mature into the franchise QB they need him to be.

According to a report from Yahoo Sports, an unnamed source said Glazer Family Foundation co-president Darcie Glazer Kassewitz is wary of Winston's potential "community relations impact." The report also noted the two people who seem sold on Winston - head coach Lovie Smith and general manager Jason Licht - will not have the final say on the selection.

Then there is Mariota, who is by all accounts and reports a model citizen. However, he is not quite NFL ready the way Winston is and may have growing pains for a season or two. A terrific athlete with a good arm and lethal top-end speed, Mariota has huge potential given how QBs like Russell Wilson, Cam Newton and Colin Kaepernick have found success in their respective systems.

ESPN football analyst Ron Jaworski, a former QB himself, recently said on CSN's "Philly Sports Talk" show that this is the time of the year where whole organizations get in on evaluating potential draft picks. It is why Mariota and Winston have been traveling to visit teams that may not even get the chance to draft them.

Such visits may just be due diligence on the team's part, but it prepares them for the possibility of either QB sliding out of the top few selections on draft night. Someone who knows that all too well is Aaron Rodgers.

"The latest I'm hearing now from my sources around the league, who are pretty wired in, is that [Mariota's] going to go number one now to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers," Jaworski said. "Mariota's stock, remember it was quiet for a while? And there's a reason for that. There's a lull every year until about 30 days before the draft. Now the coaches get involved. Prior to that, it's the scouts, it's the roadies that are filling out the paper work. Now the coaches get involved. Now team owners get involved. Now general managers get involved. So you're starting to see, in my opinion, Winston's stock starting to slide a little bit and Mariota's stock starting to go up a little bit."

If some say the Bucs want Winston and others say it is Mariota, then the truth must fall somewhere in between, which is to say the team is not 100 percent sold on either.