![]() ![]() The Combine was designed to have workouts and physical tests on all the players-which the coaches could attend, but see the same thing on TV. The Combine was designed originally to do exhaustive physicals on all the players-which none of the coaches attended. That seems nutty, but I’ll tell you why it’s not. Where are the coaches? So Sean McVay and Matt LaFleur won’t attend the combine, and Kyle Shanahan may not, and there could be others. It’s a roller coaster ride that you go on. He was 17-of-24 with 106 yards rushing and three rushing TDs in the upset of the Utes. “If you’re on an alien spaceship and you land and you only watch Richardson’s Utah game, you think he’s the best football player on the planet,” Jeremiah said. But he won just six football games in his short career, and may be a classic case of a player who might be the 15 th pick this year but could be the top pick in 2024 with more experience. “Clearly the best upside, but you’re gonna have to be patient.” Richardson is a dual-threat player, and had TD runs of 80 and 81 yards at Florida. Over the weekend, talking with one NFL evaluator for a team that likely will not take a quarterback in this draft, I asked which quarterback he liked the most. Anthony Richardson, 21, 6-4, 232, Florida.The two things that you gotta navigate around are the turnovers, the combination of fumbles and interceptions, and then taking a ton of sacks.” You know when he’s healthy he’s a good athlete. But when you watch him, you still see every type of throw you can make. “When I watched him over the summer, I liked a lot of things that I saw from him. “Will’s a tough evaluation,” Jeremiah said. A coach like Josh McDaniels, who is big in QB-development and drilling down on the little things, might be a good match for Levis, with the Raiders picking seventh. (True factoid.) Battled through shoulder and toe injuries in 2022 at Kentucky and the team didn’t develop a weapon around him as dangerous as the departed Wan’Dale Robinson, so Levis wasn’t as good in 2022 as in ’21 in Lexington. ![]() He might be more famous for putting mayonnaise in his coffee than for playing football. Levis transferred from Penn State after two seasons mostly on the bench, then became the starter early in 2021 at Kentucky. Then of course he goes into the playoff game against Georgia and it’s the best I’ve ever seen him play.” Stroud put up 41 points with four TDs and no interceptions against Georgia’s top-rated defense. In other words, when he got moved off of his spot … I thought when you could move him and get him uncomfortable, I thought his play suffered. I wanted to see him play a little bit more off schedule. “He’s not real dynamic or urgent or explosive in terms of his movements. Watching a YouTube video of him, what’s impressive is how he throws downfield and across the field he’s not afraid to make any throw, and unlike some quarterbacks who can’t justify such quiet bravado, Stroud has, consistently. Absurd numbers, like Young: 69-percent passer, 81-12 TD-to-pick ratio in 28 games. They said Bryce would show up Monday morning having already studied the entire opponent tape and would come in with corrections and ideas on the game plan saying, ‘I actually like this protection against this one better.’” How much will his size affect decision-makers, starting with Houston? Excellent question. Alabama coaches would have a scouting report on for the next week’s game on a Sunday. “He’s got poise, he’s got excellent accuracy, he’s a really good decision-maker. “In terms of what do you like about him, it’s almost like, what do you not like about him?” Jeremiah said. Young completed 66 percent of his passes with 80 TDs and 12 picks in 34 games at ‘Bama. Granted no one is totally scared off by lightish 6-footers after the success of Drew Brees and Russell Wilson, but it is a negative. Jeremiah thinks he’ll probably measure under 6-feet, and he hears he weighs about 198 now. But while there’s risk involved, I think these guys have really, really high upside across the board.” The four likely to go in round one: Jeremiah: “Five of them, I think, are gonna end up being starters. The quarterbacks will take a lot of study. Teams usually fall in love with players the closer we get to the draft. After that, I think there’s holes and questions on just about everybody.” The question is, will that make teams less desperate to move up? The answer has two months to develop, but I doubt it. “It doesn’t have maybe what we’ve had in years past, in terms of the elite, high-end players,” Jeremiah said. I hope some of my elementary stuff won’t bore you. So, many of you are waaaaay ahead of me entering the Combine. I know many of you are into the October Mock Draft scene. My conversation with Daniel Jeremiah, and trip to the Combine, is my start of draft season. ![]()
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