Sometimes the NFL, with all of its scouting and talent evaluation, still manages to overlook a great talent who somehow finds an opportunity - Kurt Warner was one instance of this. Maybe Case Keenum is another - he’s had a fine season and he’s now gotten the Vikings to the conference championship game.
It’s always safer to go with ‘Prototypes’. I have always preferred ‘winners’, those with a tough makeup that won’t quit. Those are the kind that can lead or come from behind. When I played as a younger man I believed I could beat anyone at any game if we could only play long enough.
Give me winners every time, they lose with grace, but never lose the will to win. Tim Tebow was one of these, the Lord uses him in unique ways, but had he had a coach unafraid to use his strengths he would have been fun to watch.
Always dreamed of platooning him with Michael Vick. Alternate series, rolling out every play with run/pass options ( one right handed, one left) throwing the ball away or stepping out to avoid big hits. These guys would have run the legs off of every defense ever seen and be unstoppable.
Would like to see him play baseball if he is ever close to Little Rock.
Sometimes the NFL misses talent? Try often....and usually white guys. Keenum’s #1 receiver and Pro bowler Adam Theilan was undrafted too. When asked what he was told were some of the reasons from scouts why he went undrafted, he said none. No one talked to me.
The ultimate “miss” was Tom Brady, who wasn’t even a starter for most of his tenure at Michigan, and was selected with pick #199, a compensatory pick, in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft.