I'll let him speak for himself, but the guy I thought of who had the same concerns about him was Josh Rosen. played too much hero ball, and didn't have the athleticism to win in the NFL by going off script.
Josh Rosen had the same critical flaw that I see in Tyler Shough. Terrible in the pocket foot speed. Shedeur has elite in the pocket foot speed. It's like comparing Steph Curry shooting threes to Jacques Vaughn shooting threes.
Josh Rosen has 10 scrambles throughout his entire last season. Shedeur had 39 scrambles. The leaders in the last 10 years were Mahomes, Daniels, and Jackson. Sanders was near them atound the range with Bryce Young. You don't have a 19.6 P2S rate and scramble as much as Shedeur if you aren't good at it.
Rosen metrics 79.5 adj under 2.5. Over 52% are under 2.5 seconds. Only 92 dropbacks under pressure for over 2.5 seconds.204 for Shedeur which was insane.
This is Josh NFL scouting report.
It literally misses the most important thing.
Josh foot speed in the pocket is horrible.
Yes, he has tremendous footwork and while Shedeur footwork can be horrible at times and he drifts too much but Shedeur has elite pocket footspeed. Footwork technique is overrated. I can teach anyone good footwork. I can't teach them to move their feet with pace like Sanders or Brees or Brady. Just a reminder, Mahomes had the worst footwork I've ever seen on tape for any QB prospect. Where is he at today in the NFL? Whereas Rosen had the worst footspeed in the pocket I've seen. Guess where he's at in today's NFL? Shough foot speed in the pocket is right there with Rosen
Shedeur under pressure completion is 68%, Rosen was 46% and 42.4% if forced to throw on the run. This was also something we saw in Mac Jones as well. He couldn't pass when throwing on the move. Mac at least can move his feet well in the pocket.
We actually have a Rosen in this draft. His name is Tyler Shough.
I removed one point from your post because it was the most off even more than the comp itself.
"He wasn't the guy everyone rallied around in college and you don't have to dig around for too long to find people who said he was hard to coach. He's definitely talented. Nobody questions that. But he's going to have to get grown men to buy into him as their leader. That is not a given." -- NFL Executive on Rosen
If we go to Coach Phillips, Coach TC, Coach Brett, Coach Lew, and Coach Shurmur, none will say he's uncoachable. Every single one praised him coachability and they gave him the ultimate freedom as if he's Payton Manning. Shedeur was his own OC at Trinity in HS. No one gave Rosen that freedom at any level. He was extremely mistake prone and couldn't read **** pre snap or post snap.
Rosen probably one of the most cleanest prospects I've evaluated with Mac Jones. Teddy was in the next tier. Shedeur is as messy as they come. Him and Ward are messy cooks. Select QB guys hyper focus on playmaking and doing the impossible. Clean drops is something you don't consistently see in their tape.