Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:
Originally posted by NYniner85:
Hold up…a super young QB with limited reps (that doesn't have bad habits ingrained into him yet) can actually develop and improve?
Interesting how the narrative flips.. I hear that JF is a terrible passer, that's just what he is.. he will not improve. Or I hear Mac is
I think all these guys can improve. Wilson probably could improve, but his attitude stinks so much I don't think he takes coaching or criticism well, which means he will not improve. Lawrence has already improved a great deal.
I think if you took the time to look into you'd see that a lot of QBS who didn't have that top status from HS into early starting job as a starter in college took big steps in time.
You will find very few QBs who had major success prior to 20 years old. Most of them are usually those high end recruits who had a lot of work to develop them because their parents knew early on they could make it to the top levels of the game - like Lawerence and Fields, etc.
Lance is a rare case due to his early starting season and then covid.
But just look at the prospects in this year's draft. You have your top end prospects in Young and Stroud. Young will be 22 this season, Stroud will turn 22 mid season.
Then you have guys who have come out as big time prospects this season or just recently like Richardson(going to be in Trey territory as he turns 21), Levis will turn 24 this season and Hooker who is 25 years old.
Richardson just broke out and showed his ability but it was his combine that really got people talking. Plenty out there still think he's a major project.
Levis wasn't even starting until he was 22 and had to transfer out of Penn St.
Hooker looked far from NFL material when he played for VTech before he turned 23.
Other guys took big steps forward as they matured.
Simply put there is a ton of evidence showing that Trey is far from a finished product. That's why the 49ers have to make sure long term Brock will be the better QB. If this is a Drew Brees vs Philip Rivers situation...we better keep Brees.