He will stay for his senior year. Who was the last Mizzou QB to go pro early?

I'm not real thrilled about drafting spread QB's with high picks.

Who cares?

Mizzou has never had a QB who could remotely sniff Gabbert's physical gifts.

Gabbert is such a better prospect than Mallett that it's not even funny.

Coming out, Rivals had BG as the #1 pro-style QB in the country, so I think he'll make the transition rather smoothly.

He won't go pro early.

I'm going to upset someone but frankly if the guy wanted to be a top 5 pick he shouldn't have gone to Missouri.

I'm a Mizzou homer, but this is true.

I don't disagree with this, necessarily, but his talents supersede program and system.

There will be some concerns, no doubt, but he'll probably go around #10 overall, which will be either around where the Chiefs will be, or close enough that they could go get him if they wanted.

Any QB that wants to prepare himself for the NFL and possibly be a #1 pick should probably cross off every team that runs the spread.

If he has a solid junior season, which he should, he'd be dumb as **** to return.

What previous QBs have done at Mizzou has no relevance on this discussion, since they haven't had a legit pro prospect in forever.

And then he'll have to sit for probably 2 years as he'll have to learn to properly take a snap, properly drop back and progress through his reads while dropping back...

That's fine. We agree.

But the complete aversion to any and all QBs coming from a spread offense is ridiculous. You have to evaluate the merits of the individual player.

Good rule of thumb, initially, but then you have to breakdown the specifics.

Regarding your last post, how long did it take Roethlisberger? Because we're talking about a more athletic, more gifted version of Big Ben when discussing Gabbert.

Didn't Utah run the spread with Alex Smith? I'm pretty sure that was Urban Meyer's offense.

And what sets him apart from any other spread QB?

Because he's tall and has a strong arm? I know he's going to get a ton of hype around here cause he plays for Missouri.

Hell I saw someone saying we should draft Briscoe the other day and I still have the bruise on my brain from it.

They did, probably explains why it's taken him what 5 years just to become ok enough to play.