Quote:His slight build may not an issue against the defenses he faced at Louisville. He'll be facing guys who are 300+ lbs who can run who are being paid to separate his head from his body on a snap-by-snap basis. That frame isn't built to take the kind of beating he can expect in the NFL. Maybe he'll be lucky and won't suffer injury? Maybe he won't. It's still a legitimate concern.

It's a legitimate debate, but it's way over analyzed. Drew Bree's is 6'0 and 210. Yes, he suffered shoulder injury in the past, but since then he's injury free. Look at Joe Montana and his chicken legs. Steve Young and his Vick-like scrambles? If you're not injury prone, then you're less likely to get injure than someone who is. Brady and Manning have had a serious surgery in the past, but they haven't miss a game since. Brett Favre has huge arms, but he's not exactly Gabbert-like in size, but he never missed a game.


On the other hand you have Bradford who has prototypical QB size and Locker who's built like a fullback. But both have missed significant playing time because of injury. Bradford was barely touch when he ran out of bound and hurt his ACL. As for Locker, I can't imagine what his body would be like had he started his rookie year.


Not knowing what we already know about Gabbert, if he and Russell Wilson declare at the same year, who would be perceived as more likely to get injured? But in reality, that's not the case.


Some players have the unfortunate luck of being injury prone, others avoid that bug bite. And its not just for the QBs, but all positions apply as well.


(I also like to point out that while TB gets knock for "potentially" get hurt playing against NFL defenses, but Manziel, who is actually smaller -- he looks like a high school track student when he ran the 40 at the combine -- get a pass from the media. Who knows, maybe both can avoid the injury bug in the NFL. That's the one thing that we can't really predict unless they have had some injury history i.e Jake Locker.)

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