The list consists of quarterbacks currently on rosters or actively seeking pro employment, their college, current team if on a roster and their Ball Velocity. Have fun with the comparisons. Velocity is measured by a radar gun in miles per hour. Redskins backup Colt McCoy also falls into the misdiagnosis of a soft-tosser. McCoy hit 56 in a variation test, using a chip in a football rather than the usual radar gun method. Where Dalton, McCoy and others like them may come into question is their ability to muscle-up a pass deep downfield.
Both passers have heaved their fair share of wobblers when the football travels plus yards and while the in-flight beauty may be absent, the landing is still often getting to the mark; Dalton more-so than McCoy. Even in the short passing schemes like the West Coast Offense or the rapid-fire Pistol attack, arm-strength is a plus.
And now with Run-Pass-Option football a burgeoning scheme in offenses at the NFL level, QBs need to have enough arm-zip to strike quickly, accurately and on the move. There are more than a few throwing talents that did not participate in the velocity logging process at the Combine, for a variety of reasons. Some were unable due to injuries while others eschewed the testing to avoid confirmation of game tape observations leading to weak-armed labels.
Yet others were advised not to throw at the Combine due to a lack familiarity with the receivers on hand; lack of chemistry often leads to poor performances and perceptions.
The questions remain as his on-field work reveals floating passes to the outside and lack of zip in tight windows. This season Oklahoma's Kyler Murray refused to throw at the Combine, opting instead to deliver the goods at his scripted Pro-Day. That pretty much eliminates a true MPH reading for Murray, but the pocket-rocket clearly puts on a show every time he sets into passing form.
Yes, coaching and learning proper mechanics can optimize the power a QB possesses, but the natural power a quarterback can generate is what it is. Fantasy footballers can benefit greatly in the long run by knowing exactly which quarterbacks are true power players and which ones are truly soft-ballers. If the arm fits the scheme, especially aggressive down-field playbooks, then the chances of gaining solid fantasy production are high.
A late career Peyton Manning in a Bruce Arians type passing offense would not have produced the all-world numbers Manning experienced in On the flip-side, Carson Palmer, whose vision and style was geared beyond the yard range, could not produce close to the record numbers of Manning back in his Denver frenetic, timing based short game. Again, understanding the true arm quality of a quarterback and the velocity a passer can muster help fanballers make sharp, educated choices at the QB position come draft day or game day.
At the NFL Combine QBs were "gunned" for velocity throwing for speed and to both sides of the field, left and right. Overall, the MPHs of are nothing less than previous recorded speeds, and a couple of the passing prospects impress.
Many view the crop of QBs as an underwhelming lot, and the disappointing ball velocity numbers turned in by some Dwayne Haskins? On tape, most of these pro QB prospects show plenty of arm and zip.
Deshaun Watson's 49 MPH would be among the lowest velocity efforts recorded since Blake Sims owns that dubious mark at Ohio State's Dwayne Haskins shows he can drive the football far above his "official" 52 MPH, able to make all the pro throws required. Missouri QB Drew Lock isn't a power passer, but his MPH just doesn't match the eye test in his game cut-ups, which shows him to possess more pop on his passes. He isn't polished or on-time with his passes, but he's got a power-arm.
Sixty miles per hour. Sixty, as in slower than a knuckleball. Logan Thomas throwing slower than a high-school baseball pitcher.
That seems ridiculously low, right? So what gives? A football is oblong, 11 inches from tip-to-tip and weighs about one pound. A baseball is a baseball.
You can throw a pebble faster than you can throw a boulder. A car speeding by at 65 mph is a lot different than a tennis ball doing the same. Here we are though. Narrator: When it comes to how well a football flies through the air, there are two key elements: spin rate and velocity.
Let's start with spin. On average, a good spiral has a spin rate of roughly rotations per minute. That's as fast as an electric screwdriver. Orzel: If you get the ball spinning rapidly, the ball will tend to stay with its axis of spin, pointing in the same direction all the time.
So if it's spinning fast and moving nose-on through the air, it's going to feel a smaller air-resistance force, and that means it'll go a little bit farther because of that.
Narrator: The reason a rapidly spinning football stays on course better than a slower-spinning ball is due to its angular momentum. Angular momentum measures how likely a ball is to wobble through the air or not. Orzel: The more angular momentum something has, the harder it is to change the orientation of that object. Something with a lot of angular momentum wants to keep its spin axis always pointing in exactly the same direction.
The faster you make the ball spin, the better it will hold its orientation, the more angular momentum it'll have. Narrator: So a rapidly spinning football will fly straighter than one that isn't spinning as quickly, and it will even help it fly a little farther. How far, however, mostly depends on the velocity of the ball flying through the air.
Orzel: The initial velocity that the ball's given pretty much determines everything about the flight. It determines, all right, how high is the pass going to go in the air, the arc that it's gonna follow, it determines how far it's going to go. Narrator: And building that velocity behind the ball is pretty straightforward. It's all about muscle strength. Larsen: The most important thing in generating velocity, and therefore what you would call a great spiral, right, is using your strongest muscles in your body.
Your strongest muscles in your body are gonna be in your quads, your hamstrings, your glu tes, and then your core. Narrator: However, velocity can be a double-edged sword. Because trying to increase the velocity behind a throw can sometimes compromise the integrity of the ball's spiral. Orzel: If you're trying to throw the ball really, really hard, sometimes that means you can't get as much spin on it as you would like, and then the ball ends up not going as far as it could, just because it doesn't hold its orientation, and it tumbles in the air, and it's not as accurate.
Larsen: The lower body is what creates everything in terms of that velocity, but if you have bad mechanics in your upper body, you're not gonna be able to have a spiral to get the ball downfield.
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