Sports Daily: Will Manziel be a Successful Pro QB?

[CBoller1331]

Quote: Originally Posted by cmehustle

Na, he wont have those same windows in the NFL. I do think that he has great NFL caliber recievers right now, that can make you look a lot better than you are. Also his line has at least two pros, maybe three. Thats the reason a lot of your bigger schools dont have QBs who make it in the NFL. More smaller school QBs make it because theyre used to having to carry a team.

Outside of romo, there aren't any "small college" QBs who start in the nfl right now, I'm not sure what u mean by that....

[dickey1331]

I don't think he will succeed but I also don't like him.

[The_Wise_One]

He has the ability. No denying that. It all depends on the situation and what team drafts him.

[Yeah...THAT Guy]

Quote: Originally Posted by CBoller1331

Outside of romo, there aren't any "small college" QBs who start in the nfl right now, I'm not sure what u mean by that....

Off the top of my head, Flacco went to Delaware or something like that.

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Regarding Manziel, I actually do think he'll be a solid starting QB in the NFL. People are so quick to say he won't be successful because he's a runner, but I've always been impressed by his accuracy. I think he can be a solid starter in today's NFL.

[cmehustle]

Quote: Originally Posted by CBoller1331

Outside of romo, there aren't any "small college" QBs who start in the nfl right now, I'm not sure what u mean by that....

Well by bigger schools I meant your top schools. Not necessarily 'small schools'. But that list would include Romo, Flacco who went to Delaware, Thad Lewis who started most of this season from Duke, Rothlesburger from Miami of Ohio, Kapernick who went to Nevada Reno, and Ryan Fitzpatrick who went to Harvard. I was talking more about your bigger schools like A&M, Alabama, Ohio State, as opposed to your Baylor,
Vanderbilt, Purdue, TCU, the ones who dont get all the big time hype.

[treq21]

I think he will be a bust, and hurt all the time. I dont like running QBs to begin with. But this one is so small he will get crushed.

[12]

For me I look at three things.

He has the skill set and ability to be very, very good. I'm convinced of that.

How bad does he want it? Russell Wilson is successful because he puts in a crazy amount of work. As the cliche goes, he's the first to get there and the last to leave. He's watching video at 4 AM and no one will outwork him.

Lastly, will the team that drafts him set him up for success? Just as important as a player's skill set is the system in which he lands in.

I've never understood the character questions, but maybe that's because I don't follow college football as closely as I used to. To me, he's a college-aged kid that has seen a lot of success from an early age and maybe he has made some questionable decisions at this point, but what 21-year-old kid hasn't?

Ultimately, his success is up to him and I would not put it past him to be in the upper echelon of NFL QB's in the next three to five years.

[Chip Douglass]

From what I've seen of Manziel, he's a very accurate passer and has good-enough arm strength to be a good passer in the NFL.

Statistically, the guy absolutely lit up Nick Saban's Alabama defenses, probably the closest thing there is to an NFL defense in college football, the two times he played them. That's saying something.