The 49ers Draft Room: Falling in love with players

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I would also bet money on CJ Bethard NOT being the next John Elway.

I was shocked they took CJ Bethard that early pb. I watch a lot of Iowa games and he seemed to have a pretty dramatic fall off from his JR. year to his SR. year. Although considering they didn't have any WR's worth a darn, their OC didn't have a clue, and their line couldn't pass block worth a crap it was hard to tell how much of that was completely on CJ. He seemed to throw a nice accurate long ball his JR. year but his accuracy was considerably worse his SR. year. He got beat up a lot during his 2 years of starting so he did prove that he's a gamer and pretty tough.

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I was shocked they took CJ Bethard that early pb. I watch a lot of Iowa games and he seemed to have a pretty dramatic fall off from his JR. year to his SR. year. Although considering they didn't have any WR's worth a darn, their OC didn't have a clue, and their line couldn't pass block worth a crap it was hard to tell how much of that was completely on CJ. He seemed to throw a nice accurate long ball his JR. year but his accuracy was considerably worse his SR. year. He got beat up a lot during his 2 years of starting so he did prove that he's a gamer and pretty tough.

It might be on his teammates, but none of the projection systems loved the kid. He was getting compared to Tuiasosopo, Drew Stanton, Quincy Carter, Brock Huard, Pat Ramsey and Rex Grossman.


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Aaron Schatz @FO_ASchatz 24h24 hours ago
Technically, QBASE is only the top 100 picks, but pick 104 C.J. Beathard would have the fourth-lowest QBASE projection since 1998.

Iowa was a dismal 74th in passing S&P+ last year. http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/ncaaoff

QBs since 1998, rd 1-3, with 6.0 AYPA or less in final college season: Tuiasosopo/Beathard (6.0), Stanton (5.9), B Huard (5.3), Carter (5.0)

If we raise the minimum to 6.5 AYPA in final college season, we also add Pat Ramsey (6.2) and Rex Grossman (6.1). Not a good group.