Originally posted by jamrock
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Ignoring player weaknessess because a player might be able to avoid the impact of those weaknesses and work out for a team is a recipe for disaster even if a team gets away with it from time to time. It is a bad appraoch to drafting.
People on this forum have been talking about how there have been QBs with lesser arms that have done well in the NFL. I do not dispute that. I hope that they also would not dispute that there have been many QBs with lesser arms that did not work out and that between having a lesser arm and a stronger arm, having a stronger arm would be the preferred trait.
What people seem to want to ignore is that those lesser armed QBs that worked out were in many instances not drafted until later in the draft because they were perceived to carry increased risk and lowering players on the draft board is how a team properly deals with an increased risk of a player not panning out.
I have no issues with where those other QBs were drafted. There is no way that I would draft Burrow at #1 or #6 overall.
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