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On Ryan, I agree 100%.  My concern too would be the sophomore slump.  It's been my perception that young QBs who jump in great really fast tend to regress a bit the following season.  The generic NFL learning curve is 3 seasons, (REALLY true of wideouts), but most QBs don't even get to start for a couple of seasons.
I think there is often a tendency to assume young QBs have "got" some things that they haven't really gotten, and that push to take them to a new level is often done before they're actually comfortable with the level they showed initially.  (There are always exceptions, of course).
The danger, of course, is that you might be sitting on the next Peyton.  You want to look for upside in baseball, you scan for age 26.  You want to look for upside in the NFL, look at so-so sophomore's who look to have a solid hold on a starting spot for year 3.