A thumbnail scouting report through the eyes of a scout on the other quarterbacks in the draft, not named Blaine Gabbert or Cam Netwon. One thing to note on what this scout – who thinks the Redskins must find a QB — thinks of the QB class: “It’s a bad year to be desperate for a quarterback.” Here’s what the scout thought about the combine and what the Redskins should do.
Jake Locker: “He’s so far away. The guy didn’t complete a pass until the third quarter of his bowl game. … He looks like a baseball player.”
Christian Ponder: “A great second-round pick to develop and be the eventual starter. He’s the one that’s most interesting to me; he seems to be more of a pro-style type. [Questions about him] seem to be more about his being hurt and if he was healthy he’d probably be in the discussion to be way at the top or [at least] a first-round guy. He’s polished and to me if a team is honest they’d say they’d rather take a chance in the second round than in the first because the risk-reward is so great.”
Andy Dalton: “I wasn’t impressed with Dalton. Seems like an average guy, more of a backup. But that’s not based on a full study yet.”
Colin Kaepernick: “He has great physical skills, but he’s faced lower-level competition. He rears the ball back so far and has to shorten that. Some coaches refuse to shorten a guys technique and some tinker too much. But he has to shorten that. I don’t think it would be that dramatic or difficult for him to do. He has a strong enough arm without rearing it back that far. He was a baseball pitcher as well and some of it comes form that. He can be tweaked.”
