NFP: Final Stock Watch: Offensive Risers

[Duane]

A rundown of the top five players who seem to be generating the most buzz with only three days left before the draft.

QB Andy Dalton: TCU
He’s accurate, competitive, fiery and knows how to win football games. Those are the attributes that have so many teams buzzing about Dalton as he now looks like a potential late first-round option.

http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/Final-stock-watch-offensive-risers.html

 

[fortdick]

I thought the knock on Dalton was inaccuracy?

 

[Fla Cowpoke]

I am pretty sure the biggest knock was that they questioned his arm strength.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

I think he's just overall average. He looks to me like just another spread-offense QB who runs sometimes, throws sometimes, but didn't have to make accurate throws through tight windows on any kind of consistent basis.

Maybe I haven't seen him enough, but I think people are overrating the intangibles. To me he's the polar opposite of a Ryan Mallett. You don't want a potential headcase like Mallett, but you do have to have excellent accuracy and arm strength to be a very good NFL QB.

 

[Doomsday101]

I think he's just overall average. He looks to me like just another spread-offense QB who runs sometimes, throws sometimes, but didn't have to make accurate throws through tight windows on any kind of consistent basis.

Maybe I haven't seen him enough, but I think people are overrating the intangibles. To me he's the polar opposite of a Ryan Mallett. You don't want a potential headcase like Mallett, but you do have to have excellent accuracy and arm strength to be a very good NFL QB.

I some what agree. I think he is a fine QB but 1st rd pick no 2nd in my view would be a bit iffy. I do think he has a chance to develop into a quality QB but 1st 2 rds I think is a bit on the risky side.

 

[YosemiteSam]

I thought the knock on Dalton was inaccuracy?

Accuracy is one of his strengths.

 

[YosemiteSam]

I am pretty sure the biggest knock was that they questioned his arm strength.

The biggest knock was the offense he played in I believe. He doesn't have great arm strength, but his arm is good enough to play in the NFL.

 

[fortdick]

Accuracy is one of his strengths.

I think I got him confused. Dalton is described as a west coast QB, if I have it right this time.

 

[burmafrd]

Penington. Got all the intangibles in the world but in the end had too weak an arm and kept getting injured. First you have to be able to make the throws- all of them.

 

[Hostile]

I thought the knock on Dalton was inaccuracy?

Naw, red hair.

 

[Aven8]

I think he's just overall average. He looks to me like just another spread-offense QB who runs sometimes, throws sometimes, but didn't have to make accurate throws through tight windows on any kind of consistent basis.

Maybe I haven't seen him enough, but I think people are overrating the intangibles. To me he's the polar opposite of a Ryan Mallett. You don't want a potential headcase like Mallett, but you do have to have excellent accuracy and arm strength to be a very good NFL QB.

Amen brother. If the Graham Harrell's of this world were to have come out this year you would be looking at a top 10 pick. I get the makeup of the kid, Dalton I mean, but that's about it. Teams are really scraping the bottom of the barrell's this year!