Quote:He's closer to 6'1 by all reports. If you can play you can play, but he also has a low release point which leads to a lot of batted passes.


I agree that he's more of a passer than a runner. He doesn't take off without reason.


A lot of his reads are pre determined. He knows how to read coverage, but they only have him reading half the field. A lot of his INT's have come from not looking the defense away, so the safety or lineback reading eyes will slide over on him. It's literally snap the ball, and wherever he looks 9/10 off the snap he's throwing it that way. It doesn't mean he can't look the defense off, I just haven't seen much evidence of him doing it. He does not progress through his reads much unless he's hitting a checkdown option.


Everyone one of Watson's INT's. Look where's he's looking presnap and where he goes

<a class="bbc_url" href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApyOs_tH-mU'>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApyOs_tH-mU</a>


This year
<a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2016/12/20/13882440/deshaun-watson-stats-interceptions-clemson-ohio-state-2016'>http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2016/12/20/13882440/deshaun-watson-stats-interceptions-clemson-ohio-state-2016</a>


Gonna have to slightly disagree on his arm as well. He won't have arm strength issues, but his deep ball needs work. It's either an overthrow, or an underthrow. About 10-15 yards he's great. His deep ball however is nothing special IMO. Ball placement needs work as well in his mid game.

He's either 6'2 or 6'3 based on his height everywhere. I'd say he's 6'2ish at best.


Yeah the offense he's in is very QB friendly in that sense. I watched him a good bit last year and he definitely has a good sense of reading what the defense is trying to do and adjusting according to that. He still goes through reads in a similar way to a pro style they are just based off different things. Best way I have seen this described is




Carr, Mariota, Dak and others have shown they can progress from a spread scheme into a pro style scheme pretty seamlessly. Plus the NFL has a lot of spread concepts in the playbook so the transition isn't too hard. He has shown the ability to go through reads and progressions as well as reading the defense correctly so I don't think that's a big concern for him.


He has very clean mechanics and quick release, very like Mariota that in that way. His deep balls float alot this year compared to last year and I'm not sure why. Even still he has been the 6th most accurate QB on deep balls this year in college, he was 2nd most accurate last year. Watch some clips of him in the national championship game last year , threw dimes at every level of the field.


He's 31-2 as a starter and has all of those QB intangibles like being a leader, very smart and its pretty clutch against great defenses and in big games.

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