| 22 September 2009
We are seeing the spread, in various incarnations, all over the college game. A friend asked me if I thought it would ever make it to the NFL.
I think the NFL will always be a league where quarterbacks need to be another level passers. Most quarterbacks coming out of these systems are so dependent on their running ability. There is always that compromise when running one of these spread systems. The quarterback needs to be a really good runner. I have not seen quarterbacks with great feet who are great passers, and I have not seen great runners who were NFL caliber passers. It has been my contention all along that the spread goes to another level when we see pass first quarterbacks running them. The closest I have seen so far was Dixon from Oregon who is now with the Steelers. We see all this talk about Tim Tebow. I don't think Tebow has the arm to be a pro quarterback. I don't think he is a great athlete. When he runs he is more like a fullback than a running back. I have yet to see a draft projection that has him in the first round. He is not the one. If you ask me where there might be one I can point you in the right direction quickly.
Terrelle Pryor might be the one. He is the athlete that Tebow is not, has the arm, and has size. That is another matter. So many of the kids athletic enough are not big enough. Another that I really think has a chance to be a kid that changes the NFL is Kevin Newsome, the Penn State recruit. He has better size than most of the athletic quarterbacks we are seeing the spread offenses built around. Size pushes quarterbacks down the recruiting rankings and it is even more brutal with the NFL draft.
In the end it comes down to finding a kid that is an NFL caliber passer and one that runs like a back. We have not seen one yet but the college ranks are starting to show some possibles.
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