kungfoodude

Don't forget INT's.

The most important thing is actually NFL level ability to read the field and the ability to digest new schemes and offenses. The NFL arm can put you into an elite class but not without that "NFL brain" to go with it.

Lots of factors. Depends on the FO power, the HC, OC, QB we drafted, QB roster, etc. I just don't see any way that Richardson could possibly help us in the short term. That doesn't seem like a 1st round type of move considering where we will likely be drafting.

It's not just fans that push moves like that. Also, who the fug would start over him? Corral?

Can't wait to see their fans melt down in three seasons when they haven't turned it around.

No, probably much worse. Think Matt Corral bad.

Depends on who the coach is. Might pick PJ Walker 2.0.

8 years??? Is David Tepper the Nebraska AD???

He is a guy that makes sense if you have a abive average to elite QB on your roster and can take a flier on him in the 2nd to 4th rounds. A developmental guy. He is likely to be an unmitigated disaster as a first round pick on a team like ours. The fans will be clamoring for him as soon as he is drafted and if he develops at all, it's going to take some time. It would not work out here.

He is extremely talented and I have zero issue drafting him, for the record.

I mean, from watching Richardson play, the problems appear to mostly be him. Not all him for sure.

That's a lot of words to come up with, "I don't follow college sports enough to know who is draft eligible but I sure have a strong opinion on...."

People have definitely not been talking about how INSANELY easy the Ohio State's schedule has been this year. Not trying to take anything away from Stroud per se but playing the sisters of the poor every week does factor in.

So they have a 10-15% drop rate? I am gonna guess that is not the case.

Except neither Cam nor Fields struggled with accuracy like Richardson has. Cam was a 65.4% career passer in college. Justin Fields was a 68.4% career passer. Anthony Richardson is now at 54.7% as a career passer. The kid does not see the field well at all. And he also cannot hit his target often. Those are two of the biggest red flags possible for an NFL prospect at QB.

I don't think he has ever faced something as challenging as Nebraska, though.

Need to grab momentum early in this period. Looking sketchy.

I would say this far out there is little chance of smokescreens. That does happen during the draft cycle.

Saw an article the other day quoting 4-5 current NFL FO guys and they all were still high on Levis. Perhaps the NFL crowd isn't as down on him as we are. TBD.

Most of the UF fans I know personally seem rather unimpressed by Richardson.

We are pretty early in the evaluation cycle but it is surprising to hear anonymous quotes from NFL FO people saying they are still very high on Levis.

Yeah, unless you personally know someone close to the situation a lot of that you end up inferring from someone shooting up draft boards or dropping like a rock. Sometimes it does become widely known later.

There are factors in that equation that we don't know anything about as laymen. It may be that he isn't that coachable. It may be that he doesn't work on his craft. It may be that Florida's development is trash. Those aren't things most of us will ever know and all these evaluators will have to try and get a handle on.

Sure, and this is the classic "Russell Wilson" or "Tom Brady" argument. If you base your projections on outliers, it usually ends up poorly. Now, are his(Richardson's) issues with either mechanics and field vision correctable? Possibly. It's up to the scouting department to figure out if that is something he has tried to correct and simply cannot or just hasn't been developed correctly.