COMMENTARY
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Funny, isn’t it, recalling 2012 and Geno Smith acting offended any time someone dared to label him a “running quarterback.”
Now West Virginia has three of them.
Smith showed decent wheels in his college days—and subsequently posted a 4.59 40-yard time that put him among the combine’s fastest QBs. Yet he deflected talk of his mobility, as though it might tarnish his preferred reputation as an NFL pocket passer.
Now Smith’s former college coach isn’t sure whether pocket passers have a future.
The era where quarterback coaches “sacrificed some mobility or foot-speed or athleticism to get a bigger guy, a smarter guy, more of a pocket guy,” has ended, Dana Holgorsen said.