On an NFL team scouting report, in the box listed for final grade, it simply read two words in all caps. NO INTEREST. BruceFeldmanCFB has the scouting report that shows why Brock Purdy became Mr. Irrelevant:
injured his foot and San Francisco turned to Purdy. He has been terrific, posting a 13-to-4 TD-INT ratio, while completing 67 percent of his passes for a 107.3 rating, which is almost two points higher than any QB in the NFL who had enough attempts to qualify. More impressively, Purdy is now 7-0 as the 49ers’ starting quarterback.The NFL coach who wrote the scouting report said Monday, “The biggest thing that stood out differently than from his college film, and John Lynch, is his athleticism.
“There feels like there’s two or three of those guys every year, who’ve played a ton in college. They produced and know the playbook in and out but are just physically limited. They play so much and so you get a really good look at what they can’t do, where sometimes it helps guys that don’t play that much because their warts don’t show up as much.”
Evaluating college quarterbacks has always been particularly vexing for the NFL. One school of thought, the coach said, is if you’re going to take a QB in the first round, he needs to be elite at one thing. “That was the whole debate with
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