The Ohio State Buckeyes freshman phenom QB Terrelle Pryor (6'6 and freakishly built) is one hecka of a Talented QB and is poised to contribute quite a bit this year but the ensuing 2 possibly 3 years as the starting Buckeye QB will be the most interesting. His high school career is well documented, arguably the best football player to ever play in the state of Pennsylvania, and the expectations entering the state of Ohio as the next great athlete to wear the Buck-Eye helmet is off the charts but I wonder what his Pro Football career will be like barring any major career ending injury or 'off the field' incident

He's billed as a qb that can make all the 'throws' and at the same time run like a world-class track athlete, I'm hoping that the Ohio State coaches lean more towards the development of his 'rocket' arm instead of his 'fast' feet

We're at the point now that we've seen quite a few pro quarterbacks who had the great abilities to run as well as throw but when it came time to graduate to the pro's and become a quality qb they could never make that transition and ended up having relatively short effective careers in the NFL (i.e. Randall Cunningham, Kordell Stewart, Akili Smith, Quincy Carter, Michael Vick, to name a few ) of course Cunningham didn't have a short career but he ultimately never was comfortable with completing passes from the pocket and later in his career when he no longer could move well became a liability as a drop-back qb

10 years ago the common discussion and prediction around the NFL was the Mobile QB's who could run well and throw the ball were going to be the prototypical template for that position in the 21st century; and it seemed like that for a few years at least. But we soon found out that there was a huge-serious flaw in qb's who had those abilities, they were not nearly as good throwing the ball as running with it and when push came to shove they relied more on their running skills and ultimately failed miserably at the pro level. In college and even more at the high school level it's fine and widely accepted for a athlete with great running and passing abilites to be utilized as a quarterback but instead of learning and spending time on both disciplines through those crucial early years there taught to rely more heavily on the running than passing. So what you end up developing is an athlete who drops back in the pocket and looks for his first-read receiver and if he's not open that qb takes off running down the field. Now at the high school thats okay because for the most part the qb is the best athlete on the field, and when he goes to college he again can rely on that technique because that program will design their offense around his abilities (especially if he is Top-Blue Chip recruit). But that technique and 'habit' comes back to haunt that athlete when he's drafted into the NFL and he's asked to be the 'face' of the franchise and lead a team of talented grown men

At the professional level a mobile qb can't take off and run whenever he feels like it because if he does there are defensive lineman and d-backs who are just as 'fast' and talented as he is and they will make life miserable for him. All quarterbacks, mobile or traditional, have to develop the skills of reading defenses, passsing accurancy, patience when going thru there receiver progressions and consistent 'off the field' film study. Unfortunately most of these world-class athlete qb's aren't learning the balance that is needed at the highest level so when they finally reach the NFL there confused and disoriented. In high school and college they were either taught or just did on their own, to run, run, run when things are looking to break down in the pocket when instead they should of immediately been told that running with the ball as quarterback is a last, last, last desperation decision not a 2nd option

Of course the jury is still out on the current highly touted young NFL mobile qb's Jamarcus Russell of the Raiders, Tavaris Jackson of the Vikings and Vince Young of the Titans but there already showing signs of ineffective passing maturity and before long could be on the bench

If Pryor is coached up properly and shown the ways of the 49er-style Steve Young and the Donovan McNabb of Now, or if you want to reach back in time u can throw in an example of a somewhat moblie but tall and powerful Doug Williams, if Terrelle can learn to mirror these guys during his college career when he gets to the pro level he could be potentially be the greatest QB to ever hit the field