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Is Tua even going to throw at the combine...run a 40...do any agility drills?
Is Tua even going to throw at the combine...run a 40...do any agility drills?
Not many QBs do...
Out of 9 QBs drafted last year, only 3 didn't participate in the agility drills (Murray, Haskins, and Thorson).
We should simply overlook a players agility...hell, and throwing, with a bum hip (to put it mildly) just because most of us had pom poms out for him for two seasons?
I was cool with overpaying for the rib eye steak he was. I will not pay Morton's prices for a steak from Outback...that fell on the floor.
Is Tua even going to throw at the combine...run a 40...do any agility drills?
Would you expect a guy recovering from a torn ACL to run a 40 at the Combine?
If I was going all in on said player...hell yes. If he was too injured to run the 40, he would become someone else's trash...or treasure.
Bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see how that works out for ya.
If I was going all in on said player...hell yes. If he was too injured to run the 40, he would become someone else's trash...or treasure.
If you're determining whether or not to draft Tua based on his ability to run a 40 four months after a major hip injury I think you're missing the point.
I'm not concerned if he can run a 40 by February. I need to know if and when he's going to be healthy and back to the elite prospect we saw the last 2 years. That'll be a determination made by the doctors, not the combine.
If the answer is no, then so be it, but that won't be determined by his 40 time in February.
Serious question....not smart ass. Do you see his hip injury as no more concerning than an ACL? I'd draft him in the same slot I planned if it was an ACL. I'm MUCH more concerned with a hip injury...maybe Im way offWould you expect a guy recovering from a torn ACL to run a 40 at the Combine?
Serious question....not smart ***. Do you see his hip injury as no more concerning than an ACL? I'd draft him in the same slot I planned if it was an ACL. I'm MUCH more concerned with a hip injury...maybe Im way off
Fair enough. I'll say Im more worried about long term complications than I would be if he had an ACL. Guess we'll see how the NFL sees it in about four months...Serious answer, yeah they're about the same.
With a skill position player taking an ACL injury there's always a chance he's just not the same guy. Always. It's a concern.
But this isn't a skill position player, it's a QB. And we're not talking about a guy who made his living off the run, either. It's not Jalen Hurts. So normally, you're less concerned with the QB than the skill guy.
However, balancing that out is the fact that it's a pretty bad injury. Normally considered to be worse than an ACL. He'll have metal in his hip. There will be some limitations on his inward hip rotation. It's his lead hip, which is more about aim and outward rotation, whereas the back hip is his power/inward rotation, but the limitations could have some effect on his mobility.
So it all balances out.