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PFF 2022 Preseason Davey O’Brien Award Watch List: Best QB in college football
Postseason awards are one part popularity, one part performance and all too often another part sheer dumb luck that voting broke a player's way. Look no further than former Cincinnati cornerback Coby Bryant winning the Jim Thorpe award over teammate Sauce Gardner — a top-five draft pick — a year ago. (STUPID STATEMENT!!)Still, at the quarterback position, it’s usually those first two parts that win out. The performance part we feel we can track well at PFF, but it’s the popularity part that often revolves around one thing: winning. If you’re not leading a top-20 program by season’s end, you’re not winning this award. Let’s handicap the field to see where college football’s best quarterbacks lie.
PFF 2022 Preseason Davey O’Brien Award Watch List: Best QB in college football | College Football | PFF
Diving into the 2022 contenders for the Davey O'Brien Award, including Alabama's Bryce Young, Ohio State's C.J. Stroud and a handful of sleeper quarterbacks.
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McCall is a poor man’s Justin Herbert, and he possesses one of the most desired attributes a passer can have, which is good downfield ball placement.
Ball placement is even more important than completion percentage, because completion percentage does not always reflect accuracy.
There is a difference between a pass that’s thrown high across the middle, when the receiver has to go up and make an athletic acrobatic catch and he gets tackled immediately and that same pass that hits the receiver as he runs right through it and picks up additional yardage after the catch.
McCall led the nation in 2021 with 207.65 passer efficiency.
To put that into perspective, Ohio State’s C.J. Stroud was ranked second at 186.56.
To put McCall’s passing efficiency number into more perspective, his 207.65 number ranks No. 1 all-time in college football since 1956.
Where did other notable QB’s rank during their college careers:
Should New York Jets Pick Coastal Carolina QB Grayson McCall in 2023 NFL Draft? - Sports Illustrated New York Jets News, Analysis and More
This former Jets scout evaluated quarterback prospect Grayson McCall, predicting that he'll be a great backup QB at the next level
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Evaluation:
Longer frame paired with solid athleticism to move on the ground. Has the legs to escape the pocket and pick up easy yards the defense gives him. Throwing mechanics are clean, has a high release and the ball comes out with a tight spiral. Ball has a bit of jump out of the hand, good zip overall. McCall’s arm talent is above average and would play in the NFL. He’s able to throw outside the numbers with velocity and get the ball to the target on time. Was asked to command the short-intermediate parts of the field and had good ball placement
NFL Draft Profile: Grayson McCall, Quarterback, Coastal Carolina Chanticleers
NFL Draft profile scouting report for Coastal Carolina QB Grayson McCall
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Sun Belt Prospects To Watch For In The 2023 NFL Draft
Expect these guys to be on draft radars when April 2023 comes around.
QB Grayson McCall - Coastal Carolina
McCall was one of those players that would have been one of the first quarterbacks taken in the 2022 draft, had he chosen not to return to school. In his time with the Chanticleers, he’s frequently displayed exceptional ability in the pocket and throwing on the move. It’s a stretch to call him a running quarterback, but he can move quite well when he needs to.
In 2021, McCall was named the Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year for the second consecutive season and was an All-Sun Belt first team for the second straight year. His other 2021 accolades included Pro Football Network Sun Belt QB of the Year, Phil Steele Sun Belt Conference All-Conference first team, Pro Football Network All-Sun-Belt first team, Maxwell Award semifinalist, Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award semifinalist, and more.
His 2020 accolades look very similar. With a college resume that’s already tough to fit on one page, it’s no wonder he’s at the top of this list.
Sun Belt Prospects To Watch For In The 2023 NFL Draft
Expect these guys to be on draft radars when April 2023 comes around.
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2023 NFL draft film room: Coastal Carolina QB Grayson McCall
See for yourself what makes Coastal Carolina’s Grayson McCall one of the top quarterback prospects in the 2023 NFL draft
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