Max Duggan. Stetson Bennett. Dorian Thompson-Robinson. Which quarterback could be the Brock Purdy of the 2023 NFL Draft, and how would a team find him?
Duggan’s listed height and weight are almost exactly the same as Purdy’s combine height and weight , and Duggan played a similar damn-the-torpedoes style in the same conference. Like Purdy, Duggan emerged as his team’s best QB option as a freshman. But Duggan had to have heart surgery before the 2020 season and played most of the 2021 season with a broken bone and a torn tendon in one of his feet.
Longtime TCU coach Gary Patterson, who was fired midway through the 2021 season, tweeted in November 2021 that Duggan declined surgery so he could keep playing and help the team. While Purdy’s junior season was his team’s best, Duggan’s was a nightmare. And when Sonny Dykes was hired to replace Patterson, he initially choseDuggan took over as the starter in TCU’s second game and led the Frogs to a 13-2 record while completing 63.7 percent of his passes and averaging 8.
Bennett couldn’t be more unlike Purdy in terms of the type of talent he played with in college. Georgia almost always had the superior talent. The Bulldogs ranked No. 1 in the nation in team talent in 2020 when Bennett first began starting games. The only two games he played when the Bulldogs had inferior talent were against Alabama in the 2021 SEC title game and against the Crimson Tide in the national title game a month later.
Still, it’s interesting to compare Bennett and Purdy. Their arms seem similar. Both were effective scramblers and runners, but Bennett probably is a tad faster. Like Purdy, Bennett played in an offense more similar to an NFL scheme than a college one. Bulldogs offensive coordinator Todd Monken was
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