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Why Bryce young will be the pick and we should be excited


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Wilson and Brees were short but both were stocky and well built. Bryce is short and small. Alabama has a world class weight training facility. If they had years with him and he is still 180 to 185, that's who he is. He is too small for a long career in the NFL and that gamble would kill Carolina for years. We are going to take stroud.

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40 minutes ago, Buckeye Homer said:

I wouldn't say that height "doesn't matter" but it's evident that some short quarterbacks can achieve a high level of success in the NFL.  

https://www.nationalfootballpost.com/columns/off-the-field/putting-the-physics-back-into-football-short-qbs/

I get the thought process but everytime stats are brought into it they don't correlate with what everyone keeps assuming. Like if anything it's the taller guys who tend to get their passes batted. Probably because unlike a short QB, they've never had put as much thought or work into their verticle placement so they get lazy at times.

Would things have been easier for Steve Smith if he was six inches taller? Sure, but it was never a problem because he worked with what God gave him and overcame the disadvantage by being great.  Young's height is part of his game for better or worse and he's the top prospect anyway. He's already overcome it and we're still acting like he's going to get every other pass batted down. Pros aren't that much taller than college players. 

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It's going to be Stroud or Richardson, and you should also be excited 

Young has great intangibles, but just not the body to hold up to the punishment he's going to get in the NFL , Cam was a linebacker and RB in a QBs Body, and he didn't have a long career, how do you expect someone with body type of a kicker to survive one season

I actually think Young will fall way down in the draft because of it 

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3 hours ago, MHS831 said:

So over the next 40 days, I think that is the area of these QBs that will be measured--processing

This.  There is also one other (intangible) factor that is not frequently mentioned: leadership.  Some people have it within them, others don’t.  It is almost impossible to define and measure but, you know it when you truly see it.  It is much more than swagger and bravado. 

If one of these two young men has both processing and leadership traits, pick him.  

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1 hour ago, FugginPoo said:

It’s not height it’s the fact 300lb linemen are going to destroy him in the NFL and will inevitably be more likely to have major injuries from it.  It’s happening to Tua and his frame is bigger

https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2018/weight-and-injuries
 

According to data, the exact opposite of everyone’s expectations is true. 

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