Where Miller gets it wrong on Justin Fields
Look, it’s okay to pick a guy apart — after all, it’s the nature of the NFL draft process, and that’s his job as a so-called analyst. But we’re calling you out on this one Miller. If Fields still has all of his limbs and can crawl his way through any sort of 40-time at the NFL combine, he’s going very early in the first round next year.
That’s not to say there isn’t some development that still needs to occur with Fields, there clearly is. He needs to progress through his reads a little quicker and not hold the ball so long, taking sacks when he doesn’t need to. But still, it was his first year in a new system and made his way to New York as a Heisman finalist.
Also, he only threw three interceptions which says his decision-making process must not have been all that bad, and that he had a strong enough arm to make the necessary throws in tight windows. Heck we even saw him throw lasers off his back foot.
I mean, the film doesn’t lie. You turn it on and I don’t know how you see a guy that doesn’t have more than above-average arm strength. He also played through injury and showed resiliency and leadership. The NFL is a quarterback league and he’s one of the best there is. There’s going to be a handful of teams looking for a signal-caller, and if Trevor Lawrence goes off the board first, Fields is next.
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Perhaps as telling as anything though is how Miller leaves himself an out by saying that he could develop arm strength and that his stock could rise in the next twelve months. It’s as if he’s setting up the out when he’s dead wrong next draft.
Let’s call this what it is — an outlier by someone looking way too hard for flaws in a quarterback that has all the tools to be a sure-fire early first-round NFL draft pick in 2021.
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