Taysom’s usage this season.

I'm sure there are many others. I feel like players like Terrelle Pryor and Julian Edelman kind of set the stage for moving guys that weren't going to be NFL QBs to other positions but Taysom has blown it wide open. I think going through the histories of many NFL players going back to high school, so many of them were by far the best overall football players on their teams or even in their counties. Then in college the competition levels out a bit and it obscures that more.

What I think the problem is that scouts aren't looking for that and players that are fringe players on their own positions aren't being advised to position themselves the way Taysom did when he got to the NFL. Taysom wanted on the field and did whatever he could to do so and it started with special teams and he ended up being one of the most valuable players on the team. I don't know what it'll take to get guys into that mentality, or their agents for that matter. But Taysom just being a great overall football player and having the right mentality took him from a fringe practice sqaud QB into many high $ contracts. I honestly hope more guys can figure it out.

Yeah, it probably goes back to guys like Kordel Stewart and Hines Ward (although to be fair I guess QBs in the 40s, 50s, and 60s were do it all guys), but it doesn't seem like it has ever developed into the true jack of all trades role like Hill. Stewart only played QB and WR and Ward only played WR with a few trick plays throwing the ball.

Anyway, it seems like it's more of lack of teams trying to cross-train these guys than a lack of guys who could do it. A guy like Pryor is the perfect example. But, maybe it's because teams really want these athletic QBs to turn into real QBs so they don't want to mess with their development? Or agents advise guys against it because QBs make more money?