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Originally Posted by RealSNR
More to the point, how often is it that we see "Gigantor!" QBs have success? Tall QBs get positive checkmarks from Mel Kipers, but it's never been demonstrated by any player that being NBA-tall is super helpful to the position.
There's a sweet spot of successful QBs mostly falling in the 6'2-6'4 range. A guy like Big Ben is 6'5. I don't think we've seen any QBs be taller than 6'5 and have success in the league.
Brock Osweiler was "intriguing" because he was 6'7 when he came out of college. Surely it gives you an advantage of some sort, right?
No, I'm not saying extreme height is a hindrance, but it could be if you're really tall and playing QB, perhaps that height tends to teach you not to worry about throwing lanes and all that because they don't matter to you in high school in college.
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The thinking was that you want a tall QB because he was going to take his drop and then deliver from the pocket. This was the 1980s West Coast template.
This template was also the reason Mahomes was not considered generational and Trevor Lawrence was.
Of course Lawrence was running a college spread offense but the dinosaurs didn't care about that detail because he is so Tall! How dreamy.