There's a reason I love this time of year so much. It's getting to hear scouts talk anonymously about the guys in the draft. I like to dig up this stuff years later and see what was accurate and what was way off. Thanks to Yahoo's Jason Cole (via Pro Football Talk) we've got some good old fashioned pre-combine and pre-draft scout talk.
This time, it's the declaration that 14 of 15 NFL scouts would take Andrew Luck as the top selection over Robert Griffin III.
Something that echoes what Colin Cowherd has said about Luck for months that I agree with:
” … He can walk in, run a team right now and do enough things that you can play competent, winning football. That’s the worst he’s going to be. He’s going to be a player on your team for 10 years, barring injury, and in this business that’s saying a lot.”
I'll say this, his floor is probably around the Eli Manning or Tim Couch range. Yes, I can put those two men together because physically I don't think there was a huge difference but the difference came in team talent around them. His ceiling is probably something similar to Peyton Manning or Joe Montana.
You're not getting a guy who will bust in the NFL. You're getting a guy who at the very least is going to allow you to compete every year and a few of those years when the ball bounces your way and you have the right talent around the guy; you're going to compete for a title.
Sound familiar?
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