[CardinalSagehen]

I always wonder what people mean by more athletic QBs. Tanner McKee ran for a lot more yardage in high school than Ashton Daniels did.

Your note implies a racial bias. McKee does not look fast to me. Maybe it's because he's so big. On several plays last season, I did not think he wanted the "tough yards" or had a good sense where the first down marker was.  He might have been injured or under strict orders to keep his jersey clean.  

I consider Kevin Hogan to be our last great athletic QB and on par with Luck in that regard.  He had a knack for finding holes and grinding out tough yards with defenders on his back.  I alluded to Hogan in my first note above when I said our last athletic QB got us to three Rose Bowls.  I think the highest form of an athletic QB is one that makes things happen when the play is broken.  Designed runs are fine, and Hogan had many successful ones, but scrambling for first downs and touchdowns is a really big deal in college football.

[CardinalSagehen]

I always wonder what people mean by more athletic QBs. Tanner McKee ran for a lot more yardage in high school than Ashton Daniels did.

Your note implies a racial bias. McKee does not look fast to me. Maybe it's because he's so big. On several plays last season, I did not think he wanted the "tough yards" or had a good sense where the first down marker was.  He might have been injured or under strict orders to keep his jersey clean.  

I consider Kevin Hogan to be our last great athletic QB and on par with Luck in that regard.  He had a knack for finding holes and grinding out tough yards with defenders on his back.  I alluded to Hogan in my first note above when I said our last athletic QB got us to three Rose Bowls.  I think the highest form of an athletic QB is one that makes things happen when the play is broken.  Designed runs are fine, and Hogan had many successful ones, but scrambling for first downs and touchdowns is a really big deal in college football.