Ryan Tannehill

[Aso]

Ok, I just went through like 20 youtube vids, and read a few scouting report. No way this kid should be in the top 10, let alone the first round.

I am 100% convinced this kid is a 2nd day pick.

The mechanics just aren't there, I mean he's not Tebow bad, but he's not great either. Velocity is good, not great. His deep accuracy sucks, he under throws a lot of passes, with too much air under the ball, resulting in bonehead ints, or overthrows them entirely. He has a sidearm throwing action when on the run which could be seen as a bad thing. He is very lean for a mobile QB, and he'll have to add some size in order to live in the NFL. The only upside is he's come along and learned to read a college level defense, but the jump to pro defenses is immense. I can't imagine it will be as easy for him to learn to read and react to the NFL schemes anytime soon. He's a prospect QB, period.

He is without a doubt a round 3 QB IMO. I think he's being pumped up full of a lot of hot air right now.

Gee, any positives about him?

[Shayn•Da•Pain]

Gee, any positives about him?

Mobile QB that can make plays on the run. The intangible factor is good, he can make throws on the run, but that sidearm action he has when on the run could be a problem or it could be one of the Favre things that just work. IDK. I think he's got decent accuracy short, puts good velocity on the ball, but anything deep looks inaccurate and if he were on my team every time I see that deep ball I'd gasp. Sorry, I'll stay positive. He looks like he could be good someday. But in the NFL, project players shouldn't be rated top 10 pre-draft IMO. He might be a solid QB or better someday.

[BiggaAdams]

Can he literally throw while running?

[Hasselbeck]

The mechanics just aren't there, I mean he's not Tebow bad, but he's not great either. Velocity is good, not great. His deep accuracy sucks, he under throws a lot of passes, with too much air under the ball, resulting in bonehead ints, or overthrows them entirely. He has a sidearm throwing action when on the run which could be seen as a bad thing. He is very lean for a mobile QB, and he'll have to add some size in order to live in the NFL. The only upside is he's come along and learned to read a college level defense, but the jump to pro defenses is immense. I can't imagine it will be as easy for him to learn to read and react to the NFL schemes anytime soon. He's a prospect QB, period.

Agree with a lot of this.. hence why I said I think he's better served going later in the first round (because he's going Round 1 no matter what) and sitting on the bench for a year or two.

Aaron Rodgers had some bad mechanics when he came in as well. He definitely improved those while riding the bench. Would the same thing have happened had he gone #1 to San Fran and played almost immediately? Hard to say.

I bring Rodgers up because I think Tannehill has a lot of that same potential.. but if Tannehill goes to Cleveland or Miami and plays before he can develop.. it could definitely hurt the guys career. If he went to say, a Kansas City.. a Philadelphia.. etc - I think he'd be much better off.

Larry is right though, the quarterback position will ALWAYS be overrated .. couple that with a much friendlier rookie cap and you will begin to see these prospects with a lot of question marks start to go very high in the draft.

[Champ]

He will look good in

[NAHSTE]

Gotta love how much the amateur scouting industry has evolved.

"I just watched 20 youtube videos. Here's a detailed scouting report."

[cf24]

Rumor has it BROCK OSWEILER may be a first round pick now after his INCREDIBLE PRO DAY in which only 7 of his 75 passes HIT THE GROUND

If Brock Osweiler is drafted in the first round, I'm gonna enter the draft next year. 5th or 6th round maybe...but definitely not 1st. If he gets drafted before Kellen Moore, I will be disappoint.

[TuxedoYoda]

I've never seen a college football player's on-field performance matter less than it does in Tannehill's case. He seems to be a great young man and he is a stellar natural athlete but the guy went to fucking pieces at every opportunity in crunch time. Was he singularly responsible for all of A&M 2nd half collapses? Of course not......but he was more responsible than any other individual. In the 3 games he played against the teams with the most NFL talent on their defenses (Texas, Ou & Okie lite) he threw 3 INTs in each game.

Personally, I hope Cleveland does draft him so Colt can get the hell out of that awful organization and go somewhere else.

[Rudi]

It never stops with this guy. He has to be paying people large amounts of money to get them to hype him up so fucking much.

Jim Irsay has his pick of quarterbacks Andrew Luck or Robert Griffin III with his Indianapolis Colts owning the NFL draft's No. 1 overall selection. He's also, however, using his Twitter account to try to play matchmaker for quarterback prospect Ryan Tannehill.

The Colts owner called Tannehill the "hidden gem" of the draft and suggested that if a team wants to select him, it will have to talk trade with the Minnesota Vikings, who own the No. 3 pick.

"Tannehill is a hidden gem in this draft, a quiet secret who was always sneaking up to #3..you want him,you better talk to Zigi The Biggie!," Irsay wrote Wednesday afternoon.

SOURCE

[ZoneBlitz]

Hard to tell the difference between tweets from Irsay and a 15 yr old girl.

[Hasselbeck]

If Brock Osweiler is drafted in the first round, I'm gonna enter the draft next year. 5th or 6th round maybe...but definitely not 1st. If he gets drafted before Kellen Moore, I will be disappoint.

He won't last until Round 3.

And I think he's a piece of crap.

Also considering Kellen Moore is headed for the land of UDFA status... you're probably about to be "disappoint"

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Kellen Moore will have a similar career to Chase Daniel. He's short, doesn't have a big arm, but understands the game too well and is accurate.

You might not think that's a great comparison...but of 12 QBs drafted in 2009, he wasn't one of them and he's the #2 QB behind one of the best QBs in the league, which is a better spot than 6 of the QBs drafted ahead of him, who are either out of the league (Pat White, Mike Teel) or the camp arm/third string QB that bounces around to a new team every year (Rhett Bomar, Nate Davis)...you could end up saying, Chase Daniel was a Top 7 QBs in the 2009 draft class.

That's pretty good considering he was dead last in a lot of rankings behind the likes of Graham Harrell, Cullen Harper, Nathan Brown, and Chase Holbrook.

Kellen Moore and Russell Wilson are two guys that will collect an NFL pay check a lot longer than some of the QBs that are drafted ahead of them do.

[EmpireWF]

Is that a similar description for McElroy from Alabama Larry?

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Is that a similar description for McElroy from Alabama Larry?

Tough to tell yet because a lot of the guys drafted ahead of him are playing, have played or are in the same roster position he's in...so, its tough to tell.