Kern, Greene, Karsatos, Herbstriet, Frey, Graham, Hoying, Jackson, Germaine, Krenzel, Smith, Pryor, Miller, Jones and Barrett and a lot of others have won tons of games for OSU but never made an impact in the pros. The best OSU ever produced with NFL ability were Art Schlichter who wasted his chance and Mike Tomczak who was a long time backup. Haskins has an NFL Long ball arm and that’s it. No mobility, foot quickness , he misses a lot of easy reads and when his is pressured he can hardly get out of his own way when he scrambles as big as he is. He doesn’t even come close to doing a proper slide technic when he runs and goes down. If you watch really close he sidearms a lot of easy throws and he can throw 1 in every 10 passes 40 or 50 yd. for completions when he has no pass rush but 90% of his yardage is from 5 or 10 yd slants, dumps or screens that go for 20-40 yards after catch. Those NFL defensive lines would eat him for lunch. I think he’s in no way ready for the NFL.
HAskins has to clean up his throws in tighter windows. As well as many of his throws he hangs his player out to get a hard hit. Which in the NFL defenses will make the receivers pay. Just like Manning and Brady Haskins has to have an offensive line to keep the pressure of him.
Haskins needs seasoning but with a few million dollars at stake he has to go get paid. First round money versus no or reduced money through risk of injury. I fear we may have seen the last of Haskins in a Buckeye uniform.
He is a soph, first year starter who broke almost every single season big ten passing record. He is accurate with touch and arm strength. He is not a polished senior who has seen it all, but his potential is high. He looked pretty mobile last night to me. I think NW thinks so.
I’D LOVE TO SEE HIM STAY. he is amazing. threw for 499 yards yesterday in the big ten championship game. I think a lot about what haskins does next year, depends on what urban does. he has video game numbers and is an absolute beast at qb. and so very humble and classy. personally I wish to be selfish and keep him. but we will all just have to set back and wait.