I loved watching him play last year, and thought he would be a 1st or 2nd round pick. Is anyone else absolutely shocked he doesn't even have a free agent contract yet for a team?
No NFL for Graham Harrell?
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The guy throws slants, outs, and drags at Texas Tech. It is seriously a bunch of junior high routes but when it is coached well, it really does stretch the defense. Alot of the throws he made at Tech he won't be able to make in the NFL. Limited mobility and arm strength. Would be a good Arena league QB
Yes, I'm am just as shocked that Harrell didn't get drafted as I'm am that Kliff Kingsbury, Cody Hodges, B.J. Symons and Sonny Cumbie didn't make it in the NFL. 
Yes, I'm am just as shocked that Harrell didn't get drafted as I'm am that Kliff Kingsbury, Cody Hodges, B.J. Symons and Sonny Cumbie didn't make it in the NFL.
You would think high school quarterbacks would see realize this when they are being recruited.... must be too busy looking at the stats instead
I know hes a system QB, but he seems accurate, and the system that he ran at TT seems be be run in more and more at the pro level. Namely New England, Arizona, quick and precise mainly short timing routes.
Its easy to look accurate when you stretch the defense as much as TT or other systems similar to theres do. Even NE and Arizona's system isnt even the same, similar but not nearly the same.
Totally agree here. He never had to make reads at the line. He's got the tools physically, but the quick thinking side was never developed. Great college QB, but not NFL material.
Vikings dont need him, they will have Favre later this week to go along with Rosenfels, Jackson, and John David Booty.
The 35 yard lazer from the left hash to the right sideline to Crabtree to beat Texas looked pretty good. Not many QBs can make that throw.
Yes, all of us remember that throw.
This dismissive talk about being a "system quarterback" confuses me; the QB position at TTech takes a lot of talent to succeed in, and to emerge as a starter there tells me Harrell had to have lots of skills to begin with.
Agreed. Yet it seems the NFL has been so in love with strong arms and it just doesn't seem to translate. Jeff George, Jamarcus Russell, Ryan Leaf, Byron Leftwhich, the list goes on and on of these strong armed QB's that were 1st round flops, or at least performed under expectations. On the other hand Tom Brady, Kurt Warner, Jeff Garcia, are some examples of QB's who are just used to timing routes, not stellar arms and are all pro bowlers.
If you've got the goods shouldn't matter what "system" you play in so long as you can make all the NFL throws and have "prototypical" size. You will get noticed.
