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What is the difference between "dual threat" and pro style anyway?  To me, if you want to make it in the NFL, you need to be a pro-style QB, and plenty of "dual threat" QBs are drafted high by the NFL.

Does this basically come down to if you can't run fast, you are considered pro-style, and if you can run you are dual-threat?  Can't there be guys that want to be trained in pro style offenses who are great runners also?  And even if you run a read option offense and carry the ball a lot in high school, it doesn't mean you can't learn the pro-style offense at Stanford, does it?

You mean like Burns?  To be fair, he didn't run a read option offense in high school; he ran a single wing offense.  But he was certainly not a pro-style QB when he was recruited.  I suspect that we will see more and more high schools going wth spread option and run/pass option concepts, because they are easier to learn and implement, so we will have relatively few pro-style QB's available (same with the college to NFL transition).  The best QB's, of course, will be able to learn how to become pocket passers, but many will struggle with the transition.

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What is the difference between "dual threat" and pro style anyway?  To me, if you want to make it in the NFL, you need to be a pro-style QB, and plenty of "dual threat" QBs are drafted high by the NFL.

Does this basically come down to if you can't run fast, you are considered pro-style, and if you can run you are dual-threat?  Can't there be guys that want to be trained in pro style offenses who are great runners also?  And even if you run a read option offense and carry the ball a lot in high school, it doesn't mean you can't learn the pro-style offense at Stanford, does it?

You mean like Burns?  To be fair, he didn't run a read option offense in high school; he ran a single wing offense.  But he was certainly not a pro-style QB when he was recruited.  I suspect that we will see more and more high schools going wth spread option and run/pass option concepts, because they are easier to learn and implement, so we will have relatively few pro-style QB's available (same with the college to NFL transition).  The best QB's, of course, will be able to learn how to become pocket passers, but many will struggle with the transition.

BC