Senior Bowl QBs vying to disperse NFL doubts
The Senior Bowl all have roughly to prove.
Graham Harrell and Pat White want to show they can thrive in a prostyle misdemeanor like they did in university ball. Nathan Brown and Rhett Bomar aim to influence NFL they’re not just minute–conservatory stars.
John Parker Wilson and Cullen Harper also hope to use Saturday’s stage for top senior NFL prospects as a launching pad for pro careers, one coming off a 12-win term and the other off a satisfactory year.
None of them are as desired by NFL teams as underclassmen Matthew Stafford of Georgia and Mark Sanchez of Southern California. It’s hard to reason with college badge, nevertheless.
Harrell done for his Texas Tech calling with an NCAA-record 134 touchdown , 15,793 momentary yards — succeeding on the all-time list — and some he is eager to answer.
“More than anything, I think this is an chance to break some of the that come with self a quarterback at Texas Tech,” he said. “A lot of people act like it’s just the logic. Obviously the organization you put up numerousAntonym numbers, but there’s a minor more to it than just the procedure at Texas Tech.”
On Saturday, he’ll consume more time actually and take more snaps under bottom than he’s accustomed to. The game, however, is merely the finale of a cycle of , and practices where the players could endeavor to put in in good health side for the summary.
Among the top participating are Southern Cal Rey Maualuga, Mississippi left holdSynonyms Michael Oher, Boston College self-justifying attack B.J. Raji, Virginia left equipment Eugene Monroe and Oklahoma State tight end Brandon Pettigrew.
The game marks a homecoming for White, a Daphne native who will play in “a game I’ve watched since the very first year of my life, in all probability.”
Once again, he gets to prove he can play quarterback. Auburn and Alabama weren’t convinced of that when he was soul out of high departmentSynonyms, foremost him to head to West Virginia.
The copious and athletic White is trying to answer skeptics who phenomenon if he will land at quarterback or possibly wide telephonist in the NFL.
“That’s the standing that got me here. I played quarterback for six centuries, two in high group,” White said.
Like Harrell, he is a top score–scenery school player with much to show the NFL. He was 4-0 as a appetizer in bowl games — a opening for a quarterback — and a two-time Big East Offensive Player of the Year. White also set the NCAA mark for vocation hiss by a quarterback with 4,480.
What does he want to prove? “That I can play the game of issue. That’s what we’re all here to show.”
Wilson and Harrell showed they lead into domestic finals disputation as seniors, even if the teams ‘t ending the job. Wilson Alabama to a 12-0 regular spell track record and wrecked as the brotherhood‘s all-time primaryAntonym .
He wasn’t highly recruited out of high seminary. The tutor who gave him the planned, Mike Shula, is the South team quarterbacks as part of the Jacksonville Jaguars staff.
“When I came to Alabama, I don’t think many people had the high expectations that I did,” Wilson said. “It’s a good opportunity to come out here and it could be impediment some people’s eyes.”
Wilson would like to quality with a win in his home state after the Tide done the time of year with losses in the Southeastern Conference challenge game and the Sugar Bowl.
“There’s a bunch of Alabama people down here, so definitely I can go out on a restored note,” he said.
Harrell, for now, led Texas Tech to an 11-2 background and won the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award as the top senior quarterback.
“I hope the NFL scouts see that and say, ‘That kid’s a champ,'” Harrell said. “But there’s still some stereotypes coming from the practice I in and with a bit of luck I can help break some of those this week.”
Hawaii’s Colt Brennan tried to make a similar breakthrough last period, but wasn’t chosen until the Washington Redskins picked him in the sixth round.
Harper and Clemson had a not up to scratch season after entering ranked in the top 10, important to a tutoring transformation for the Tigers.
Bomar and Brown both thrash outSynonyms from smaller schools. Bomar played his closing two seasons for Football Championship Subdivision team Sam Houston State after nature from Oklahoma, and Brown also in the Southland Conference at Central Arkansas, where he was the confederacy‘s player of the year.
“I want to get that minor–college bug off my back,” Brown said. “I know every personAntonym out here’s on an even surface. Everybody’s looked at the same way. That’s what makes it so downright. But I’ve still got to prove that I can cover with these guys and that I can make all chuck that the NFL wants me to make.”
