Even after the terrible pro day he had?
I don't watch college ball so I rely on people that I read on message boards, and I see almost nobody saying he will be that good. Of course franchise QB can be looked at different ways and sliced and diced. So I'll ask this.....
Do you think he will be a top 10 talent in the NFL? Top 7? Where do you think he will "be" after he has had a few years under his belt.
Pro Day doesn't matter to me. There's no defense. In the game situations, he's stood out to me.
I think he'll developed into a top 5-10 QB if he lands on the right team.
Right now, the only glaring flaw I see in his game is his deep accuracy. And I think I know why, this is a post I wrote up yesterday on it on another site:
Bridgewater's deep ball accuracy is problematic because he has a tendency to under-stride which both can cause the ball to sail and can cause the ball to be under-thrown depending on how much body he puts into the throw. He needs to do a better job of stepping into the throw with his plant foot, transferring his weight and driving off his back foot in order to put more velocity on the ball and locate it better. There are examples where he does it correctly such as the back-shoulder deep ball to Eli Rogers against UCF shown below:
And even on this throw, while he stepped into it the way he should have, he could have driven harder off his back foot to put more velocity on the ball...although his accuracy was perfect on the throw.
On the following play against Rutgers, we see Bridgewater's issue pop up more clearly:
Because of pressure in his face, he cannot step into the throw and again fails to drive the ball off his back foot like he should have. His weight transfer here is poor and he doesn't stride into the throw like he needs to. This leads the ball to sail on him and get intercepted. The issue I've noticed is that he has the tendency to do the same thing even when pressure isn't in his face. IMO, it's the biggest reason why his deep ball is so inaccurate. He's not using his throwing base like he should.
I'm not concerned about his frame like some are. His release point is a slight flaw because he's 6'2" and has a low release point for his size which leads to some batted passes but it's not an overwhelming issue.