The success of run/pass threat QBs Cam Newton, RGIII, Russell Wilson and Colin Kaepernick has NFL talent evaluators running to try to find the next one of these guys and has led many to probably overhype Arizona’s Matt Scott as a result. But I think an interesting idea for an NFL team would be to ignore trying to pluck the next run/pass threat out of this draft and instead look to former Northern Illinois QB, and current Colts practice squad player, Chandler Harnish to see if he might be the guy. I saw Harnish’s name pop up on a QB comparables screen, so let’s start there.
I’ll offer upfront that I did not do the usual culling of the list to remove guys who weren’t similar in terms of draft round. So the names below are just notable guys who are in the NFL (or are current year prospects) and were similar to Harnish based on college numbers.
