WOW Drew Anderson! Loves throwing outside, ball placement on short flat routes, screens is really good. Arm looks strong, lots of dimes on fades and corners. When he leaves the pocket he is looking to make you pay. Can move in pocket, enough athlete to run some when it breaks down
Something weird about his motion, whippy in the arm, and really drives the back knee almost like an MLB pitcher (looks akward), bails on occasion throws flat footed when about to get hit.
Overall, super impressive IMO.
Buffalo decided Tyree Jackson was better?
I know, right?!?
Standout high school player in Northern California. Not really heavily recruited for whatever reason (neither was Josh Allen, also Northern California, and say what you want about his future NFL career the man should have been a top recruit). Walked on at San Diego State but couldn't climb the depth chart so he went to JUCO at Diablo Valley. Was the most productive passer in the state of California the year he started at Diablo. Transferred to Buffalo but simultaneously they recruited the massive 6'6" and 245 lbs kid with a cannon arm and 4.7 speed Tyree Jackson.
I found two things about his Buffalo career most interesting:
1) His coach says that even though Drew was not the starter, was never slated to be the starter, had not played any games for them, heading into the 2017 season Anderson got a bunch of Captain votes. Coach says he'd never seen that happen before.
2) In just a short time I felt that, in a very real and lasting way, Anderson actually established Buffalo offensive identity. If you look at the games Tyree played before he went down that year, you look at how he ran the ball like 10 times a game and such, the offense was different. Anderson got in and he was a pocket passer. That had always been his identity as his high school coach said he was the best pure pocket passer he'd ever coached. So to accommodate, the Buffalo offense became oriented toward that, and it absolutely blossomed into something more effective than it had been. Coaches took note, and I read articles from the time that said that it inspired they and Tyree Jackson to do things differently when he got back in. Suddenly he was running the ball less than once per game. They made him into a pocket passer rather than a dual threat guy.
Smart kid with a good head on his shoulders, great character. Hates losing. It guts him.
Had to transfer out of Buffalo because they continued on with Tyree, and with only one year of remaining eligibility, all he could get was Murray State. They're really a terrible program, picked to finish second to last in the OVC. He arrived there late, and you could see that nobody was on the same page early in the season. But he had them on top of the conference at one point this year, rolling on offense, until the other much more talented teams in the OVC started to hand it to them.
I watched his game against Kentucky, a good SEC defense, a top 15 or 20 team in FBS football. Murray State's weaponry was bad even for the OVC. But I felt like Drew was slinging it anyway. He made a few mistakes. Takes a shot deep down the field and nails it, but it's dropped. Two more drops end that drive. Then he gets something going to end the half, but his coach makes an absolutely GUTLESS call to end the first half, with Murray State actually trying to get a TD on the board to bring it to 17-7. You could see that call took the wind right out of the sails of the Murray players, and they collapsed in the second half.
But that's a tape of a bad FCS team going against a top 15 FBS team with a good SEC caliber defense. This is a better one, especially when you look at the amount of wind that was whipping around in the stadium. Lot of pocket traits and passing traits that are coveted in the pros.
