Fields’ best Buckeye Comparison: Terrelle Pryor
I said this would be hard, but Pryor is the most comparable specimen freak of an athlete the Buckeyes have had at the quarterback position. Pryor was selected in the third round of the 2011 supplemental draft by the Raiders after he decided to withdraw from Ohio State in June of that same year after the regularly scheduled draft was held.
Pryor did not have the best pro career and was actually forced to make a position change to wide receiver, but his pro day was insane. Pryor ran a 4.38 forty-yard dash and measured in at 6-foot, 5-inches, and 232-pounds. Pryor was not a terrible quarterback in the NFL, but he never developed into anything more than an athletic freak and the pro game requires more. Fields is a better passer than what Pryor was but on the same level physically. It is a safe bet to expect a better career out of Fields.
Terrelle Pryor was drafted with pick of round 3 in the 2011 draft class. He scored a 7.47 RAS out of a possible 10.00. This ranked 242 out of 954 WR from 1987 to 2011. #1KReceiverhttps://t.co/cHvXr2Sd34 #RAS pic.twitter.com/blJjI0UPEt
— Kent Lee Platte (@MathBomb) March 26, 2021
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