Jarrin' Jay said:
Kyler was absolutely 100% scared to play in the SEC while at A&M, the hit he took that "knocked him out" of the Auburn game was routine and no starting SEC QB should have had to leave the game for that. Now, as a true fish weighing what he did soaking wet with concrete shoes, I would have been scared too. The point being he should not have been playing as his body was not mature enough. As an upper classmen he would have been fine, or even as a soph. or RS Fr. after an adjustment period. Playing against Alabama, Auburn, and LSU as a true FR is not like playing vs. AZ State. The failure of Kyler at A&M is 100000% on Sumlin.
I do not foresee a long NFL career for him, however, if he keeps running around like that. There is a reason that success in the NFL as a QB is dominated by guys like Peyton, Brady, Brees, etc., etc. Kyler is nothing new, and if Michael Vick couldn't change the game, neither will Lamar Jackson or Kyler Murray.
Kyler can be electric, but he is one good pop from being done for the year when he gets absolutely crushed by an LB or even a hard-hitting S.
Just another Sumlin CF............
That's a very small sample size to justify statues having a longer career. Being a pocket passer does not exclude you from injury. Alex Smith broke his leg on a pass play. Roethlisberger got injured from throwing in the pocket. Every quarterback regardless of if they run or not is one hit away from being out for the year.
Michael Vick played in a different era. Today everyone is moving towards a spread offense, quarterbacks are starting training at a younger age, and they have football almost year round with personal coaches, camps, and 7v7. When their careers are done Wilson and Mahomes will have taken almost every passing record from those three you mentioned.
Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
