Let's Talk 2016 NFL Draft Quarterbacks

[Warren]

Originally Posted by barrett

Tebow completed 68% of his passes his senior year in college, accuracy wasn't the main issue.

I don't think that college completion percentage is a good measure of accuracy, although a particularly low percentage can be an indication of a problem. When I say "accuracy" I mean ball placement, touch, etc. A college QB's completion percentage can be skewed by his offense, if he's mainly only being asked to make the easy throws, and all college stats can be suspect due to the big talent differences that can exist between teams. Florida probably only played a handful of teams during Tebow's career that were as or more talented than they were. Tebow didn't have to have pinpoint precision throwing to guys like Aaron Hernandez and Percy Harvin against college DBs, but in the NFL he found out that the coverage is much tighter. I do agree that he had other issues, and no doubt his bad mechanics played a big part in his lack of accuracy.