Thoughts from combine throwing session … As usual, much of the focus on the on-field workouts of the skill position players focused on the QB throwing session. As usual, though, no one should read too much into what happened on the field yesterday as it is hard to say that anyone’s grade moved much at all by the end of the day. For starters, neither of Cam Ward nor Shedeur Sanders, the top-rated passers for this year’s draft, participated in the passing drills. At the same time, the drills themselves are hardly representative setting of what a pro QB does. Each guy throws 2-3 passes to unfamiliar receivers, then waits several minutes while others throw and then throws 2-3 different routes to more unfamiliar receivers. And of course they are throwing essentially against air as there is no pass rush to deal with. That said, it did appear that Jaxson Dart was the best of what was essentially the second-tier QBs in this year’s draft, although it is also hard to imagine that any scout saw a first-round arm during his workout. Dart, though, did show a quick, easy release and generally put the ball on the numbers, but did have overthrows on a couple of deep out routes. At the same time, Jalen Milroe, who is built more like a TE, appeared to have the strongest arm on the day, but the ball placement was really lacking at times. Same for several others including Will Howard, Dillon Gabriel and even Quinn Ewers. In fact, the one guy we thought did really stand out along with Dart was Tyler Shough. He does have a bit of a wonky, sidearm delivery, but its clean, its quick as Shough as much as anyone throwing yesterday showed really good timing and route anticipation. Bottom line, though, was that there were a number of QBs throwing yesterday that an NFL would really like to get into camp and to see if their individual skill set will translate into something special at the next level, but there clearly also wasn’t anyone that just screamed out ‘pick me! pick me!’
