Yes, but he does that once just to promote his own guy, and his stock falls / nobody believes him the next time. And hurts him recruiting other clients. He's putting a lot of his own reputation behind Kyle when he does articles like the one that came out this morning. He was beyond effusive and was pushing the data on McCord a lot. His whole business is that QB data is behind other sports fields so I think he's pretty confident in Kyle.
The data Wilson gathered from McCord’s QBX session further proved Palmer’s instinct about him: His arm is elite, but so is his brain.
On the former, McCord was, by a wide margin, the best thrower in nearly every area during the Shrine Bowl session. He posted a spiral efficiency of 93 percent, with 12 of his 28 throws rating at a perfect 100. He clocked an average spin rate of 699 rpm, well above the NFL average of 592. Sixteen of McCord’s throws had a spin rate higher than 700, topping out at 740 (per Wilson’s Blake Rus, a spin rate of 800 qualifies as “elite” in the NFL.)
“The data showed that Kyle, for a lot of the starters I’ve worked with — I can’t name names here — but when he’s in that 95th percentile on some of these, it’s not just against the other guys at Shrine,” Palmer says. “It’s everybody.”
