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MOBILE, Ala. — Watching former Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe perform at the Senior Bowl this week may be the ultimate Rorschach test for NFL executives and evaluators.
Do you fall in love with his big arm and athleticism that can make something out of nothing? Or are you scared off by his intermediate passing deficiencies and questions around whether he can process the game fast enough at the next level?
Milroe could be the most polarizing prospect in this year’s NFL Draft, the kind of player that can make a general manager look like a genius or have to look for a new job, especially if he drafts him in the first round. Some analysts, including CBS Sports’ Chris Trapasso, think Milroe is indeed a Round 1 pick.
The full Milroe experience, the one Alabama fans know all too well, has been on display in Mobile this week. He’s made big plays with his arm but also poor decisions like this interception on Wednesday.
Milroe throws a beautiful deep ball but his intermediate passes seem to have too much speed on them. In his first few days in Mobile, it looked like he was having trouble keeping up with the speed of what was happening in front of him. There were rumblings that he hadn’t aced some of his meetings with NFL teams this week, either.
“He’s not had the best week this week,” The Ringer’s Todd McShay said on his podcast. “Everything he’s still developing is what has been featured this week so, of course, it’s not going to be his shining moment the first two days of practice.”
McShay thought Milroe looked better on Thursday and that was the general consensus of media and NFL folks inside Hancock Whitney Stadium. But it still wasn’t a standout performance. During one stretch of red zone offense, he went 0-for-3 on fade passes,…
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Author : John Talty
Publish date : 2025-01-31 18:04:00
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