BREAKING Milroe declares for draft
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Your absolutely right, the sky is the limit for milroe at WR, especially if his hands keep growing,
Milroe's a tweener. Not good enough at several aspects of the passing game to be an NFL QB. Has size and straight-line speed, but not enough shiftiness to be a RB. Nowhere near the hands necessary to be a WR. TE, maybe, maybe, iffity if. Still, you have to figure he'd have the dropsies as a pass catcher.
I think his best chance is as a Swiss Army Knife kind of player, like Taysom Hill. Good enough at all that stuff to make defenses respect his skills, but not good enough to specialize at any single position.
I do kind of wonder about free safety. He'd have a big learning curve in pass coverage, and I'm not sure he'd ever be able to process all the permutations of his responsibilities with the speed the NFL demands. But he's big and fast and strong and would be good in run support.
Maybe a dime package specialist if he could get passable at understanding assignments?
I think his best chance is as a Swiss Army Knife kind of player, like Taysom Hill. Good enough at all that stuff to make defenses respect his skills, but not good enough to specialize at any single position.
I do kind of wonder about free safety. He'd have a big learning curve in pass coverage, and I'm not sure he'd ever be able to process all the permutations of his responsibilities with the speed the NFL demands. But he's big and fast and strong and would be good in run support.
Maybe a dime package specialist if he could get passable at understanding assignments?
TE - no where near the size needed.
FS - doesn't have the CPU speed to process it, and based on his lack of shiftiness, I would also bet he doesn't have the hips for it either.
His best bet would have been RB. King Henry isn't exactly shifty, but he makes it work out pretty darn well with his other tools. Nilroe would have had to have worked on his field vision some, but a lot of the other tools he has would have made this the path with the highest chances of long term success.
All kidding aside. He should probably try to get into marketing, that seems to be his biggest strength. Other than being fast, of course.
Folks, we've seen his inability to move sideways for over 2 years! I've never seen him break a tackle when he's moving laterally! Now, if he gets going downhill, it's different!
Safeties have to cover and need loose hips - not as much as corners - but I don't think that's who JM is.
Honestly, unless he could play fullback and just be a bull in a china shop I don't think he's got the skills for another position.
At this point, his best chance to play is to stick to learning how to be a better QB.
And if he can get into the league and sit behind a starter he'll make killer money and possibly learn a few things. No, I don't think he'll ever be a star QB in the NFL, but I didn't think Jalen Hurts would either.
Safeties have to cover and need loose hips - not as much as corners - but I don't think that's who JM is.
Honestly, unless he could play fullback and just be a bull in a china shop I don't think he's got the skills for another position.
At this point, his best chance to play is to stick to learning how to be a better QB.
And if he can get into the league and sit behind a starter he'll make killer money and possibly learn a few things. No, I don't think he'll ever be a star QB in the NFL, but I didn't think Jalen Hurts would either.
His best bet for athletic superstardom was probably running track. He is fast enough to have been an Olympic track runner.
I wonder about his first few steps? No question when he gets going he's fast, but I don't know if I've ever seen a 40 time on him.
Which makes me wonder why he chose not to run the 40? If he's got a sub 4.4, for instance, that's newsworthy and only hypes his possible potential as a dual-threat QB in a league where that is getting more and more trendy.
I thought Jalen had a shot when I was watching him come in the year he sat behind Tua. His development trajectory changed, and he looked good when the was at OU. Jalen was held back in his development because he had to play as a freshman. He didn't get to sit for a year or two and learn to play the position on a higher level. It wasn't all his fault, though he did frustrate me at times, because guys in front of him were busts. Milroe had that development time and it just hasn't seemed to happen for him. Maybe a new environment and being a pro will help. I sure hope it does. I want him to succeed.
I don't think anyone has.
The smart thing for him is to get drafted as a QB. That will get them him paid the most. Then try to develop at QB, then worst case move to another position or move on. It's theoretically possible another staff could figure him out. He could certainly be the gadget guy like on GL plays.
Like mentioned earlier, Taysom Hill has made a nice living being a sometimes-used QB. Milroe could succeed in that, assuming he's fine with that lack of playing time.
He is fast, but it takes time to get to speed. If he declined to do the forty, then anyone with half a brain can deduce that his forty time won't be impressive.
Throwing a flag on a bunch of you for unnecessary roughness/piling on. He is a Bama guy and think we should let it go at this point. I know that is not how TF and the world works now but lets just say good luck to him and move on to our next QB.
I just want the page to turn too but he’ll be talked about until the Draft is over.
I’m beyond tired of the discussion.
I don’t even want to talk about our current QB room I’m so sick of the debating over who’s the best and why.
Nothing would be better for the fan base at this point than to have a slam dunk multi year starter at QB.
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