The main purpose of traveling to Mobile, Ala., for the Senior Bowl is the same amongst all potential NFL prospects — to boost their stock in anticipation for the upcoming NFL Draft. Well, as one of the most knowledgable NFL insiders tells it exiting Senior Bowl week, Drew Lock did just that last week in Mobile.

Missouri’s outstanding quarterback returned for his senior season to improve his NFL stock and learn the intricacies of Derek Dooley’s pro-style offense that was planning to be installed in Columbia. While Lock did not match his numbers from his outstanding statistical junior season, football isn’t a sport that can be measured purely on statistics. The way Lock tells it, his senior season completely prepared him for what was coming from the NFL teams he met with at the Senior Bowl.

Exiting Senior Bowl week, Peter King of NBC Sports seems to share that opinion based on his conversations from Mobile. In his weekly Football Morning in America column for NBC Sports, King shared this nugget on Lock and his improving stock following the Senior Bowl:

Quarterback Drew Lock of Missouri helped himself the most among quarterbacks, practicing and meeting teams well enough to likely earn a first-round look.

Lock may not have been a guaranteed first-round selection entering the week but as we all know, quarterbacks are annually pushed up draft boards when QB-needy teams at the top start to become enamored with prospects. That may once again prove to be the case with Lock thanks to his outstanding showing from Mobile.