The Furious Five: Leveling up or leveling off?

Dennis_DeYoung said:

Yankoff is a 2 because he's more boom-bust. Great arm, really good wheels (but mostly straight line wheels). But physically he's skinny and already been injured.

He plays in a loser offense and QBs who can take off and house-it at any time can struggle adapting to an offense that isn't like that. His balls are not as diverse as you see from a guy like Matt Corral or Trevor Lawrence (who is incredible). He generally throws at one speed and one arc-trajectory. These are things a physically dominant QB can get away with in HS, especially when mated to his ability to run.

However, the ability to throw all kinds of balls is really important.

I view him VERY similarly to how I felt about Marcus Mariota, except for the fact that Marcus was a bit faster and Marcus had elite change of direction.

He's really close to a 3. I loved Mariota because he was unreal as a runner and had a gun.

Colson is really, really good as a runner (but mostly runs straight) and really, really good as a passer (but mostly throws at one speed and trajectory).

On DICK NUT - he's close to a 1. I do like his speed change abilities, but I hate that he tries to bounce everything outside. He's got decent size. I see him as being pretty, pretty, pretty similar to Kamari Pleasant. That's why the 2.

There are a couple 1s out there we might still end up with, but that would be a big level down.

I see your points on Yankoff but I see it differently. For me, he's a guy who's a mid level Pac QB at worst. Baring injury (and I don't think the injury risk is significantly higher than other QB's) IMO, the only way he doesn't go down as our best QB since Pickett is if he gets beat out by Sirmon or Morris (in which case they're taking that title).

The rushing ability raises his floor considerably for my money, and he's shown enough in big games against good opponents that I don't worry about him being not clutch.

I see ways that Sirmon can't hack it mentally/emotionally. I see ways that Morris can't hack it physically. I don't have any concerns on either end about Yankoff other than injury.

I'm all in on this kid.

Meek said:

dnc said:

Dennis_DeYoung said:

Yankoff is a 2 because he's more boom-bust. Great arm, really good wheels (but mostly straight line wheels). But physically he's skinny and already been injured.

He plays in a loser offense and QBs who can take off and house-it at any time can struggle adapting to an offense that isn't like that. His balls are not as diverse as you see from a guy like Matt Corral or Trevor Lawrence (who is incredible). He generally throws at one speed and one arc-trajectory. These are things a physically dominant QB can get away with in HS, especially when mated to his ability to run.

However, the ability to throw all kinds of balls is really important.

I view him VERY similarly to how I felt about Marcus Mariota, except for the fact that Marcus was a bit faster and Marcus had elite change of direction.

He's really close to a 3. I loved Mariota because he was unreal as a runner and had a gun.

Colson is really, really good as a runner (but mostly runs straight) and really, really good as a passer (but mostly throws at one speed and trajectory).

On DICK NUT - he's close to a 1. I do like his speed change abilities, but I hate that he tries to bounce everything outside. He's got decent size. I see him as being pretty, pretty, pretty similar to Kamari Pleasant. That's why the 2.

There are a couple 1s out there we might still end up with, but that would be a big level down.

I see your points on Yankoff but I see it differently. For me, he's a guy who's a mid level Pac QB at worst. Baring injury (and I don't think the injury risk is significantly higher than other QB's) IMO, the only way he doesn't go down as our best QB since Pickett is if he gets beat out by Sirmon or Morris (in which case they're taking that title).

The rushing ability raises his floor considerably for my money, and he's shown enough in big games against good opponents that I don't worry about him being not clutch.

I see ways that Sirmon can't hack it mentally/emotionally. I see ways that Morris can't hack it physically. I don't have any concerns on either end about Yankoff other than injury.

I'm all in on this kid.

wow, you're all in for what....zero dollars?

Yeah but that's like 81 dollars Canadian