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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3433682, member: 27"] I liked Leonard too. That kid is a winner. I would have been happy to have him on our roster. I think he will find a way to get on the field and contribute. Not sure if it will be as a QB or not but I want kids like him on my team. I am not saying Leonard is not a good player. I am taking umbrage with these web sites taking a player who had no P5 offers a couple of months ago, has done very little on the football field to prove he is a P5 level QB and bump his rating radically once he got a couple decent offers. Look at the film of Leonard. He completed so few passes there is little to evaluate. I think statistics matter in high school. I think too many people ignore them. They have meaning. This has been proven by predictive models. I think it is reasonable to ask why if Riley is a legitimate P5 level QB, he struggled to average 100 yards passing a game for a team that went 6-5. Why did he run for almost as many yards as he passed? I think we probably need legit dual threat QBs for this offense to work well, against ACC defense, given the talent we have to work with at OL, WR and the rest of the offense. I am glad both of these guys are capable of running and throwing, and making something out of broken plays. But if I am evaluating 2 QBs and have to choose one to take, I will take the one who has shown me he can make a variety of reads and passes, can make the progression to a second receiver, can consistently make a good throw under pressure. You can see that with one of these QBs on film. You cannot with the other. I understand the people doing these rankings are not professionals and don’t know much about football. I understand they have to consider the offers players have and factor that into the numbers they assign. I just wish the vast difference in what you can see of the capabilities of these players on film was taken into account more when their ratings were assigned. It will be interesting to see how both develop over time. [/QUOTE]

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