4. Mitch Trubisky
Everyone loves the way Trubisky can sling the pigskin. He has a tremendous arm and showed some promise that he knows how to use it at the highest level of competition.
Starting all 13 games for North Carolina last year, Trubisky was very accurate, especially when he set his feet. He finished with a 68-percent completion rate and threw 30 touchdowns compared to just six interceptions. Those are tremendous numbers.
But the glaring issue surrounding Trubisky is that he couldn’t find a way to beat out a mediocre starter in Marquise Williams during the 2014-15 campaigns. This is an issue that has been “bugging” Arizona Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians, who probably spoke up for many NFL personnel evaluators in the process.
“A really talented player,” Arians said. “The growth potential is obviously there. The question is why wasn’t all that talent starting for the last three years? That’s always bugging me. So you have to go and answer those questions with him, with his coach, but the physical talent is there.”
A player many NFL draft writers believes will be the first quarterback taken in the 2017 NFL Draft, we’re not convinced he’s going to pan out. In fact, if this scribe had to make a comparison to an NFL quarterback, it would be Blaine Gabbert, who never lacked talent but couldn’t cut it against NFL pressure.