Ohio State’s Terrelle Pryor will be suspended for the first five games of the upcoming college football season. Almost everyone knows that. The question is how much will it hurt his NFL aspirations. If it’s up to draftnik Mel Kiper he would have Pryor switch positions. Maybe moving him to wide receiver while still at Ohio State.
Kiper also thinks Pryor will project to being an H-back or tight end in the NFL, pretty much the same thoughts he had about Tim Tebow.
“I’ve thought all along he was a tight end,” Kiper said on a conference call. “I talked about (former Florida quarterback) Tim Tebow the same way last year.
“I think his best chance to be a very good NFL player is as an H-back. I think Pryor is going to be a projection to tight end.”
Kiper feels that Pryor needs to work on some things, mainly throwing to succeed as a quarterback. I feel Pryor is an athletic wonder but he needed those five games to hone his skills at the position.
“Accuracy,” Kiper said when asked what he could improve on. “Throwing the football is the main thing.
“He has to throw the ball, and he has to be precise with the football, and he has to do the things from a pure passing standpoint.”
“Did he need to play those five games to prove he can be a quarterback? Yeah, he did,” Kiper said. “I think there is going to be some concern whether he is going to be a quarterback or a position change, like I said, to a tight end spot.”
Kiper is not the end all, be all of how a person does in the NFL. Maybe Pryor will surprise his skeptics and prove that he is an NFL worthy talent at quarterback and not tight end or some novelty player. I feel he should get a chance to play quarterback before they try to switch positions.
I think the talk of switching him to a different position might hurt him more than the five game suspension. That will get into the heads of the league executives before he gets a chance to prove he’s worthy of being a quarterback.
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