Completely agree with your comment. If character was the only requirement to be a top-flight QB, Jake would be a lock for NFL All-Pro. By all accounts, Jake is an exceptionally fine young man.

Personally, I believe his accuracy issues are not so much mechanical (footwork, arm position, etc.) but his apparent inability to quickly process what he sees and then solve the problem with the correct passing decision and throw.

He will land on his feet somewhere, but it may not be as a long-term NFL starter.

They all agreed Locker is a project who should not be taken before the third round because of his sub-par decision-making and low completion percentage. (The former feeds the latter.)

One former NFL GM said the notion of Locker being the #1 overall pick in last year’s draft was emphatically “not close” to reality.

While they acknowledge that it takes only one guy to fall in love with Locker and take him in the 1st round next month, they said he is “not ready for that” in terms of what would be expected of him as a Top 10 choice.

Pete Carroll was the only NFL head coach on hand. Other NFL coaches and decision makers apparently were conspicuous by their absence.

You’re right. And the knock on Brady is that he can’t get the ball down the field. PFT pointed out that Locker’s two incomplete balls were down the field(if you can’t hit them when no one is rushing or covering, good luck in game situations). They also pointed out many balls were inacurate, but WR made great catches.

The one thing you can say about this kid is that he knows what it’s like to deal with adversity.

Unfortunately, it’s hard to rate him beyond that. Some of his passes simply looked bad, but with 41 or 43 drops (I’ve heard both numbers) and lord knows how many throw-aways due to no one open…it’s just hard to gauge what his completion percentage really should have been.

I definitely like his character more than Newton or Mallett, and his work-ethic is MILES above Cam Newton and his used car salesman smile.

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Gotta disagree with that one. These QB’s have all been past QB Challenge winners. Lots of Pro Bowls, a couple MVP awards, and some Super Bowls on this list:

2005 Jake Delhomme
2004 Matt Hasselbeck
2003 Brad Johnson
2002 Jeff Garcia
2001 Trent Dilfer
1998 Jim Harbaugh
1997 Vinny Testaverde
1995 Randall Cunningham
1994 Randall Cunningham
1993 Jeff Hostetler
1992 Dan Marino
1991 Dan Marino
1990 Ken O’Brien

It was always playing in those darned games on Saturdays that made him look bad. Recount the ways from a few of last season’s Pac-10 stats for Locker as the leader of the UW offense:
• Passing efficiency – ranked #8 of 10; last among the eight starting QBs who completed the season.
• Red zone offense – #9 of 10 for frequency in RZ and for TDs in RZ. Two Ints in RZ.
• Third down conversions – 32.1%; the lowest conversion rate in the Pac-10.
• Scoring offense – ranked #8 of 10.

If Locker is such a great QB, can anyone explain why he was never named Pac-10 MVP or All-Conference QB, either 1st or 2nd Team—ever? But UW ran one heck of a Heisman campaign for him in 2010.

If he didn’t have such good receivers, who caught many more bad passes than they ever dropped, his passing stats would not have been even as good as they were. Fully 1/4 to 1/3 of his completions were too high, behind the receiver, and/or exposed the receiver to being hammered—but the receiver caught the ball in spite of the throw, not because of it.

Most of his passing yardage was YAC after a completion near the line of scrimmage, not from down the field completions—because he cannot consistently hit receivers down the field in a game —especially from the pocket.

He throws 54% in pads vs the Pac 10 defense.

Without pads and defenders, he misses only 2 passes.

If the game is played in pads and his completion percentage 54%, then what does it matter if he misses 2 passes in a controlled environment?

The guys who used to win the NFL QB challenge were the QBs that didn’t do well in actual games, and Jake Locker is one of them.

broncfanor & bradley – if the Pro Days are no big deal, then explain why 200 coaches, scouts & GM’s attened the one today?

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It’s called due dilligence. There’s also a lot more than completion %’s these coaches/scouts are looking at (mechanics, arm strength, their response to coaching). Completing passes they are SUPPOSED to complete really means nothing … unless of course they DON’T complete them! I’m just saying … the players are supposed to do well in a setting like this, and from the end of actual college football games up to the draft, they’re looking at 2 things – 1) confirmation of things they see on tape and 2) the “intangibles” (personality, leadership, coach-ability, etc). If they want to know how good the kid can play football … they’ll look at his actual game film. No scout is stupid enough to believe a 95% completion alone in a pro-day means a guy can hack it in the NFL.

Indeed. 4 for 20 against a college defense. And people actually think he’s going to fare better in the pros? Seriously?

Not that I’m defending Locker, I have as many doubts as the next guy, but since we’re hung up on his comp % here right now, it might be relevant to take something like that into account when proclaiming his accuracy issues.

There is alot more involved in a completion percentage than where and how a qb throws the ball. The time afforded by the o-line, the quality of the receivers being thrown to, and the situations the ball is being thrown in spring to mind as a few minor things that could affect it.

He might Tim Tebow his way into the bottom of the first, but if he makes it into the top 10 I’ll be very very shocked.

Fine. But who’s ‘our’? You neglected to mention which team…

Rovibe, what do you mean he forgot to mention which team? Which team drafts #10? The ‘Skins. Duh. But please Skins DO NOT draft Locker. We already went down this road with Ramsey(and by we I mean the Skins). Ramsey was another very very strong armed quarterback who was supposed to be tough and intelligent. Which he was, but he was terribly innacurate(maybe because he was always on his back).

Go watch game tape and then come back here and tell me your impressed.