Originally posted by 5_Golden_Rings:
I admittedly have not watched a ton of him. But when I do, I keep finding myself baffled as to why so many people keep saying he has Chad Pennington's arm. I'm thinking people are mistaking a tendency to choose to throw with a lot of touch with an inability to throw it on a line. I'm not saying he has a hose, but I haven't seen any evidence that he can't complete every NFL pass, and on top of it, he's the best I've seen in a long time at throwing deep touch passes.
Trask is such a weird prospect. I can see him being a career journeyman that bounces from team to team and spends most of his time in the NFL as a backup. I can also see him making enough improvements to become a pretty good, legit NFL franchise QB. One thing I do like a lot about him is that he's been able to overcome a lot and compensate for deficiencies on his team.
Future NFL 1st rounder Pitts went out with an injury? Trask didn't skip a beat.
The rightside of that Florida OL is basically this:
Trask adjusted and made it work, was able to regularly avoid pressure.
No run game to speak of? Trask adjusted and made it work.
In terms of his overall football IQ and ability to read defenses, he's near the very top of his draft class. He seems to go through his reads and identify the favorable matchups as well as anyone. If he made improvements to his throwing motion and footwork, especially with better consistency in his throwing platform, he could see a significant increase in both his arm strength and accuracy.
The thing that gives me some hope about him is that his time as a starter is still so limited. He's played in 20 something games, was a backup before then, was a backup all throughout high school. There's room for further improvement. That the mental component of his game is so strong shows that he was putting work in and wasn't just dozing off or spacing out while in the backup role.
He reminds me a lot of Drew Brees in college. Not in terms of physical size obviouslly because Trask would tower over Brees but a similar level of awareness and quick processing. Brees playing in a spread offense at Purdue was a pro at dissecting defenses, didn't have a cannon of an arm, no real outstanding physical traits but he was still consistently productive, even when facing upper tier opponents. You put Trask on the Saints with Sean Payton guiding him along and I wouldn't even be slightly shocked to see him winding up as a Pro Bowl level QB three to four years down the road.
