STRENGTHS
Bo Nix is a football player. He is all about football. His passion to compete and play is what sets him apart from any other Quarterbacks in this draft. He has excellent size and arm talent that is above average. He has the velocity in the red zone to defeat those tight windows and score touchdowns. Bo has the athletic talent to run the ball on any down and distant situation to move the chains. He is an excellent athlete and could play a number of different positions on both sides of the ball but his passion is to be an excellent quarterback. Bo has the potential to be considered the top quarterback in this draft and a potential franchise quarterback for the team that selects him.
CONCERNS
There are times in a game when Bo tries to do too much. It seems like he doesn’t have trust in his teammates to make plays because he questions if their passion to win matches his. If and when his offensive line struggles to make their blocks and Bo is under Constant pressure, he looks to make the big play rather than the right play. Bo’s improvement from last year has shown everyone that put in the right coaching situation Bo can be the player he envisions himself to be and that is a winning quarterback. I can nit-pick any player to death but for Bo, his ability to deal with on and off-the-field adversity is the biggest concern. He has to learn to better deal with and accept his team’s failures as not just his own. Leadership in adverse situations is not necessarily playing harder, leadership in adverse situations is getting others on the team to play harder.
BOTTOM LINE: 1.51
Bo has reached his goal of playing football at the college level and becoming the winning quarterback he knew that he could become. He did it by finding a team with a nurturing coach and teammates who have the same passion to win that he has. Bo’s athletic talents and mental football IQ are as good as any quarterback who has ever come out in the draft. Of course, he has some issues that he needs to improve but nitpicking those issues will not improve them for Bo. He is the type of player who is harder on his self than most players are so, a coach who beats him up emotionally is just going to make him shut down and not succeed. Bo could be the 1st quarterback selected in this draft. Or he could be selected as the last quarterback selected in the 1st round. Some teams will be turned off by Bo’s sensitivity to hard coaching. Other teams will love the fact that Bo is a self-motivating player who doesn’t need hard coaching. As a person who has managed people and businesses all my life, I love self-motivating people.
