The most underrated quarterback in each college football conference (Big Ten: Drake Lindsey, MN)

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Clairemont Gopher said:
Hard to work on mobility. Kind of like learning to be fast. He just has heavy legs but might be able to speed up his coverage recognition and get the ball out a little quicker. Receivers that can separate would help.
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I guess I would call it more like pocket presence. There have been plenty of QBs who were not "mobile" but had that sense of when to move to extend the play.
 

PMWinSTP said:
I guess I would call it more like pocket presence. There have been plenty of QBs who were not "mobile" but had that sense of when to move to extend the play.
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Yes, that would describe guys like Brady, Marino and Jurgensen, among others, who were extremely successful without being blessed with superior athleticism.
 

Clairemont Gopher said:
I never said Cousins is/was was an agile quarterback but he is not an apt candidate for the far end of the mobility scale. For that distinction I would pick someone like Vinny Testaverde. Guys like Brady and Marino were far from nifty but they could take a strategic step or two to get off a throw. Better conditioning could push Lindsey into that group. Also, as I said before, I think Lindsey will get better at recognizing coverages quickly with more experience and maybe he will have better targets. These will help him get rid of the ball sooner and hopefully minimize the effects of his heavy legs.
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It depends on where you want to draw the line. I say Cousins is immobile, you disagree. There are greater tragedies in the world.
 




MNVCGUY said:
College takes sack yardage from rushing total, NFL takes it from passing total. In my opinion the NFL does it right because a sack happens on a pass play.
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Totally hear you on the sack yardage thing. I think the NFL’s way makes more sense. My point was just about showing the actual college rushing output of each guy so we’re comparing 4 years of apples to 1 year of apples on mobility, not critiquing your stat logic at all.

Drake was -113 but with 4 TDs in his single year. Cousins was -12 (5 games), +60, -136, -39 in his four college years with 1 rushing TD. I would not call him mobile in college.
 

Unregistered User said:
Totally hear you on the sack yardage thing. I think the NFL’s way makes more sense. My point was just about showing the actual college rushing output of each guy so we’re comparing 4 years of apples to 1 year of apples on mobility, not critiquing your stat logic at all.

Drake was -113 but with 4 TDs in his single year. Cousins was -12 (5 games), +60, -136, -39 in his four college years with 1 rushing TD. I would not call him mobile in college.
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Running is definitely not a big part of Cousins game as evidenced by his 2.8 yards per carry average in the NFL.
 

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