Marshall Faulk sends a warning to Trevor Lawrence about Urban Meyer's QB history
There are many reasons to wonder if Urban Meyer will find any success coaching the Jacksonville Jaguars. It’s still a 1-15 team, and college coaches have a mixed rate of success at best in the NFL.
But Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk offered a different reason to be concerned for presumed No. 1 overall draft pick Trevor Lawrence. It is quarterback development.
Faulk pointed out that Meyer’s career list of notable starting college quarterbacks include Alex Smith, Chris Leak, Tim Tebow, Braxton Miller, Cardale Jones, J.T. Barrett and Dwayne Haskins. Most of them had little success in the pros.
“I’m worried for Trevor Lawrence,” Faulk told TMZ Sports. “I mean, outside of Alex Smith, this man hasn’t developed a quarterback that’s playing in the NFL right now. So you put that together. I’m just telling you, like, I’m going to let you know — I think Urban Meyer’s a great coach — but he’s never developed a quarterback outside of Alex Smith when he was at Utah (2003-04) and he had some really good attempts with, I’m talking, what, four-star, five-star guys when he was at Ohio State (2012-18) and at Florida (2005-10). There’s something to that.”
Faulk also added an interesting twist. Following recent turmoil in Houston, Faulk said if he had the Jags’ top pick, he’d pass on Lawrence and try to trade the selection for Deshaun Watson.
There’s plenty of time to discuss all of these scenarios as the draft is set for April 29.
Now that would be BOLD for Urban to get Watson and a couple years of first round picks! You would essentially get a proven pro qb who would not go through growing pains AND have more access to top picks for a couple of years!
I would be fine if SDS stopped reporting Urban news. He coached at UF for a couple years. Who cares what he’s doing now?
^^^^^^This. I don’t give a crap about Urban Meyer or the NFL.
I’m not sure if that’s an apples-to-apples comparison. Meyer was paid to develop quarterbacks to win games at the college level, not the NFL. Now that he’s in the NFL, it’s the same mandate, just a different level. And he’ll be getting an already well-developed quarterback in Lawrence.
Many of Urbans early QBs failed due to being a square peg going into a round hole. Many of ths QBs were forced into being pocket QBs where they were not using their legs as a threat. Tebow in Denver is an example to me. For 3 qtrs he couldn’t move the ball. 4th qtr would come and Timmy was allowed to run. Offense would move and Broncos would come from behind. Today, the NFL is becoming more dual threat minded. With that said, I think the wiser pick at #1 is Fields. Why is it assumed that Lawrence is the lock at 1? Fields is the most logical choice.