Can we talk Joe Burrow?

[CJD]

(12-25-2019, 06:04 PM)hollodero Wrote: Yeah I heard about arm strength concerns. Tough to evaluate imho.

What I take away from that is how he grades Burrow as barely being a first round talent, regarding his overall score... seems more and more he is "just" the best QB in the draft, but not an exceptional prospect in any way.

I still wonder how the OLine I saw factors into all that. It's easy to be cool and accurate and mobile and mentally fit if you have plenty time to do as you please. Some pretty mediocre QBs look amazing if they are well protected. I'd be interested how he does under pressure.

His grading scale is static, so he doesn't adjust it for this draft class. I looked through his other scouting reports and it looks like Burrow has the 4th or 5th highest rating overall. I don't know what that says about his scale but he is definitely the highest rated QB available.

EDIT: yea, his top 10 ratings (that he's done so far) are:
Chase Young 9.3
Derrick Brown 8.87
Jerry Jeudy 8.77
Jeffrey Okudah 8.65
Joe Burrow 8.59
Justin Herbert 8.59
D'Andre Swift 8.57
CeeDee Lamb 8.56
Isaiah Simmons 8.53
Xavier McKinney 8.33

So I think his scale needs a little work haha. You can't grade a player a "top 5 talent" and then say there's only 1 of them and expect that to make sense for a particular draft class