All eyes on Tim Tebow with Florida’s pro day on tap
Article By mflorio.tsn on 16th March, 2010
Former Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, one of the most eager and earnest draft prospects in NFL history, opted not to work out at the Scouting Combine because he was still working on his new throwing motion.
Tim Tebow looks to impress scouts after disappointing Senior Bowl performance. Of course, he says he's not really changing his throwing motion. But he's changing it enough to have kept him from throwing for scouts in late February.
Now, less than three weeks later, he'll show what he can do at his pro day session in Gainesville on Wednesday. He promises that no conditions or limitations will apply, and that he'll do whatever the scouts and coaches want him to do.
So let's take a look at what they'll be looking at:
1. The snap.
It's the most basic and mundane of a quarterback's duties. Place knuckles of one hand into the nether regions of the center, call for the ball, receive the ball, grasp it with other hand.
For a guy who took the huge majority of his snaps during his college career out of shotgun formation, it's hardly a basic or mundane task. Especially when he's asked to do it for the first time in front of a bunch of strangers.
So it's no surprise Tebow dropped more than a few of the exchanges on his first day of Senior Bowl practices.
When he works out on Wednesday, scouts will surely closely monitor his technique for doing something that most NFL quarterbacks have long since taken for granted.
Gators expect big crowd Tim Tebow works out for scouts on Wednesday, and there will be more than a few non-scouts in attendance. A league source says the folks at Gainesville are expecting a crowd of more than 10,000.
At many schools, attendance at the Pro Day workout is limited to players, agents, scouts, coaches, and accredited media. We're not sure how or w...
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Tim Tebow looks to impress scouts after disappointing Senior Bowl performance. Of course, he says he's not really changing his throwing motion. But he's changing it enough to have kept him from throwing for scouts in late February.
Now, less than three weeks later, he'll show what he can do at his pro day session in Gainesville on Wednesday. He promises that no conditions or limitations will apply, and that he'll do whatever the scouts and coaches want him to do.
So let's take a look at what they'll be looking at:
1. The snap.
It's the most basic and mundane of a quarterback's duties. Place knuckles of one hand into the nether regions of the center, call for the ball, receive the ball, grasp it with other hand.
For a guy who took the huge majority of his snaps during his college career out of shotgun formation, it's hardly a basic or mundane task. Especially when he's asked to do it for the first time in front of a bunch of strangers.
So it's no surprise Tebow dropped more than a few of the exchanges on his first day of Senior Bowl practices.
When he works out on Wednesday, scouts will surely closely monitor his technique for doing something that most NFL quarterbacks have long since taken for granted.
Gators expect big crowd Tim Tebow works out for scouts on Wednesday, and there will be more than a few non-scouts in attendance. A league source says the folks at Gainesville are expecting a crowd of more than 10,000.
At many schools, attendance at the Pro Day workout is limited to players, agents, scouts, coaches, and accredited media. We're not sure how or w...
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