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And then, you have to look at some of the recent, highly touted guys to come out of "pro style" sets and see where they are in terms of NFL productivity:
JaMarcus Russell
Matt Leinhart
Jimmy Clausen (Though he had an absolutely awful rookie season, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt in terms of his NFL future. Personally, I think he's been overrated for a long, long time and is a Marinovich type of guy.)
And for all the hype/pub he gets, as well as the playoff success his team has had, Mark Sanchez is a bottom tier NFL level quarterback. He was third lowest in completion percentage of all NFL quarterbacks (just above Jimmy Clausen and Derek Anderson) and had the fifth lowest QB rating of all NFL quarterbacks (again, just eclipsing such notables as Jimmy Clausen and Derek Anderson.) He also had the fourth lowest yards per pass attempt in the NFL (once again, just marginally beating the amazing Clausen/Anderson duo.) It's amazing to look at the stats and see that it's the Sanchez/Clausen/Anderson trifecta at the very bottom of nearly every single statistical NFL QB category.
If this guy played on any other team, it would be catastrophic in terms of horribleness.
There's your uber-level recent "pro-style," "ready to play now" first round quarterbacks...
Yeesh.
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