Easton Stick's arm strength tests out pretty funky.
He's only 6'1" or 6'2" and I've heard from someone who knows the NDSU head trainer that Stick plays around 190 or so, hopes to gain some weight to be 205. So disregard those listings that say he's 220+, lol.
But man can this guy wing it. Consistently 50+ at virtually every functional distance including 40 yards. He has not-infrequent throws at about 25-30 yards that come out around 54-56 mph. When he's pressured or hit as he's thrown, he's still generating 48 mph velocity, which is top-end for a guy like Clayton Thorson (and many others).
So why is he funky? He has this thing where he SHOTPUTS his deep balls. It's almost like he's being challenged to see how HIGH he can throw a football. And trust me, it's pretty farking high. There was one in particular, about a 170 foot throw, the camera panned out wide so you could see just how high it went in the air, and I swear it was identical to a PUNT.
This has to be a coaching point. He's throwing 49 or even 50 mph on a 120 foot throw (absurd!!) but then on a 140 foot throw he's at 38 mph like he's Daniel Jones all the sudden? I understand putting more air under your deep throws to let a guy run under them, but he's going way too extreme and it has nothing to do with an inability to throw a deep ball.
Drew Brees is such an excellent deep ball thrower because he's mastered the art and arc of keeping these 140 to 170 foot throws to around 44-45 mph, which would be a "stick throw" speed for some guys. Drew can't really DRIVE the football the way others can, on the shorter throws. Trust me, I've sifted through so many of his throws, he can't do it. He tops out around 48 to 50 mph where SOME others can get 55-56 mph (e.g. Easton Stick). But what makes Drew's arm profile unique is how much he drives his deeper throws, and how effective they are.
That is something Easton Stick needs to learn and improve on. If he can do it, and make other improvements, he's got the pure talent to be up there with an Aaron Rodgers even, someone like that. I don't declare something like that lightly. He moves like Aaron Rodgers. He's an athlete like Aaron Rodgers. He has the pure arm talent to where he could throw like Aaron Rodgers. I'm not saying he IS Aaron Rodgers, because Rodgers is special for reasons other than his athleticism, elusiveness, and arm talent.
Still, what an intriguing combination on a player that, again indirectly via someone I know connected to Stick's trainer, is a really good guy with a good head on his shoulders, hard worker, winner that brought his team to the FCS Championship Game as a freshman in place of an injured Carson Wentz only to cede the starting spot back to Carson when he got healthy, without even a word...the maturity to do something like that...