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Pro Days serve as crucial opportunities for players to showcase their talents, but they also highlight the disparity between public perception and team evaluations. Simms and Banks discuss how coaching staff and management consider a player’s potential for growth, balancing both immediate needs and long-term development paths.
Simms points out that with modern training facilities and access to coaching, quarterbacks have unprecedented opportunities to improve their skills. Importantly, the NFL environment now places performance expectations on quarterbacks much earlier than before, often seeking immediate returns from draft picks.