Great Point on Tebow

I’m no Tebow fan, but CHFF makes a solid point

Tebow was the top-rated passer in major college football last year. He’s the top-rated passer in SEC history. The guy can throw the friggin’ football. Sure, he had great talent around him at Florida. But so have a lot of other SEC quarterbacks through the years. But Tebow was more effective passing the ball than all of them. Oh, and in his spare time, he ran for more touchdowns than any guy in SEC hstory, too. The guy can play. What more evidence do you need?

Of course, he very well could fail at QB in the NFL. We can’t predict the future.

But neither can NFL executives, despite the fuss and muss over the dreaded “throwing motion.”

NFL talent evaluators, you might remember, have a very spotty track record when it comes to identifying guys who can play quarterback in the NFL, even those guys with perfect mechanics.

Let’s just look at SEC quarterbacks alone in recent years. The Colts nailed it in 1998 when they made SEC stud Peyton Manning the No. 1 pick in the 1998 draft. He had a great throwing motion. He’s become one of the great quarterbacks in the game.

But the Browns blew it the following year when they drafted another prototypical pocket passer out of the SEC, Kentucky’s Tim Couch, with the No. 1 overall pick.

Couch, you might remember, had such a nice throwing motion that football executives gushed over him … despite the fact he was a watered-down version of a regular SEC stud like Tebow.

You know what happened: despite appearing to have all the mechanical tools, Couch was a bust in the NFL.