Marcus Mariota

[nerickso]

If you haven't seen his senior highlight tape yet, take a look (fast forward to 2:25 to get through a bunch of fluff)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXFHH1DkfS8

This is one of the most impressive tapes I can remember seeing--Dude is a perfect fit for our offense. What a steal

[karlhungis]

He is much bigger and faster than I was expecting. It looks like he makes some good decisions as well. Great pickup.

[Tray Dub]

Watching that got me so excited. I don't care about the level of competition, a kid that has that strong and accurate of an arm, coupled with his ability to scramble and throw extremely well on the run will be lethal. I think he's going to be great for us.

[greenyellow]

His stats don't do him justice since it seems like he sat out of the 2nd half in a lot of his games. He's probably one of the most underrated QBs in the country right now since he closed his recruiting so fast that he sort of just fell off the radar for a lot of people.

[squintsdd]

If I remember right, he didn't camp much. He will likely get a star added when the recruiting websites do their reevaluations.

[woundedknees]

6'5"/190... Wonder how much beef Coach Rad can put on this kid in a year... That's like Dennis Dixon/Justin Roper skinny.

If Mariota can perform as well as Dixon, Duck fans will be very happy to have him around.

[jimmy12]

Really? insightful

[NCDucks09]

Arm Strength: Good

Touch: Excellent

Throwing on the Run: Excellent

Speed: Above Average

Decision Making: Good

Looking forward to see if this kid can compete at the next level for us. I still like Bennett better at this point.

[karlhungis]

Arm Strength: Good

Touch: Excellent

Throwing on the Run: Excellent

Speed: Above Average

Decision Making: Good

Looking forward to see if this kid can compete at the next level for us. I still like Bennett better at this point.

His speed looked better than "above average" to me. Semantics

[liberalduck]

Arm Strength: Good

Touch: Excellent

Throwing on the Run: Excellent

Speed: Above Average

Decision Making: Good

Looking forward to see if this kid can compete at the next level for us. I still like Bennett better at this point.

His speed looked better than "above average" to me. Semantics

I believe he is very fast. If I remember correctly, I think he ran in the 4.4 range.

[woundedknees]

Darn I forgot to add this...

Internet humor is so hard.

[NCDucks09]

Speed on tape is all about perspective, and who is the competition you're playing against. Mariota, looks quick, but no faster than Hawkins, who runs like a 4.7-4.8 40. In HS recruiting, everyone says they run a 4.4, 95% of them are lying. The only legit guys that run a 4.4. in our recruiting class this year are Devon Blackmon and Tacoi Sumler. My guess is Mariota is in the 4.8 range. I mean, Darron barely runs a 5 flat. When you are a QB, you have the element of surprise, so it makes you look a lot faster than you are. Randall is much faster than Mariota, but I bet that Mariota is a better QB, he just looks smarter and more accurate passing the ball.

[buckmarkduck]

At the big Hawaii camp last year he ran in the 4.3s that's a couple steps faster than Hawkins who ran a 4.7. And that was in front of scout. Com and rivals guys. Fetters couldn't stop drooling over him. Oh that was the fastest time there also.

[NCDucks09]

At the big Hawaii camp last year he ran in the 4.3s that's a couple steps faster than Hawkins who ran a 4.7. And that was in front of scout. Com and rivals guys. Fetters couldn't stop drooling over him. Oh that was the fastest time there also.

Link or evidence? I have a very hard time believing that Mariota is faster than LMJ, Lache Seastrunk, or Dennis Dixon.

[GrandpaDuck]

There is a camp to promote Hawaiian athletes to colleges, the 4.3 hand timings are from there. He did have 4.7 Sparq electronic timings at a Scout combine, and his Sparq times for that day and surface were comparable to the faster receivers and RBs at the combine. He is probably right there with Hawkins speed-wise maybe even a step faster.