John Beck is one football player that will be the latter. Despite posting gaudy statistics for the past two seasons, he’s not very well-known across the country because the conference he played in(Mountain West Conference) doesn’t have very good visibility. Simply not enough college football fans on the east coast could tell you who the heck John Beck is. The ultra accurate signal-caller is without question my favorite player in the 2007 NFL Draft, regardless of position. I say without hesitation and with the utmost of confidence that I believe we’re all going to be talking about John Beck and what a phenomenal career he had in the National Football League 10-12 years down the road. If I had the number 1 pick in the 2007 NFL Draft and I ran the right offensive system(West Coast), then I would choose John Beck.

Beck is armed with a lightning quick release and has remarkably good footwork in the pocket. He’s extremely good at shuffling his feet around the pocket to make sure his body is well-balanced to make the proper throws down the field. The best example of Beck’s footwork comes at 5:11 into the video of the BYU 2006 Season in Review highlights. With his team down by four with three seconds left in the game, Beck dropped back in the pocket and couldn’t find any open receivers. So he shuffled from the right side of the field to his left, smoothly gliding his feet together and then back apart. Once a Utah defender chased after him, Beck raced back to the ride side of the field, jumped in the air and threw a beautifully lofted ball across his body to a wide open Johnny Harline(pronounced Har-leen) in the end zone to win the game. This throw also displays his tremendous arm strength.

In their 2006 contest against Air Force, Beck also demonstrated the ability to improvise when he danced around a defender, spun to his left and pitched the ball to running back Fui Vakapuna.

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Lloyds Apple said:

I could not believe (ok, I could believe it, but it still made my head spin) the media coverage concerning the Dolphins selecting Ginn over Quinn. It's only a matter of time until the media look stupid, specifically the Draft day pundits who combed Brady's hair in-between commercial breaks. Still, Daunte Culpepper left some pretty big shoes to fill. It's going to be tough to live up to the standards he set in Miami last year.

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