I wrote a whole post about being nervous about smaller college QBs. The central florida kid was terrible against UH (200 yards, 0 TDs, 1 pick). And I think I dismiss anyone who doesn't dominate at the mid-level. Then I looked at the top 20 NFL passers and found...
Rothleisberger, Dalton, Romo, Flacco, Alex Smith, and Kaepernick.
All of them were outside of the power conferences (although TCU and Utah moved into those conferences after these guys). None are what I would dream of from a top overall pick, but if we are drafting in round 2 and came away with one of those guys it would be a good pick (and many were 2nd round picks precisely because they went to smaller schools).
Of course, David Carr was a mid tier conference guy who smoked the competition. So you never really know, no matter where they played in college. Hopefully the new HC/GM is better at guessing than I am.
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