Trace McSorley asked to work as a DB at NFL Combine

In the world of football and the NFL, the season is one of the craziest of the year. Sports writers, general managers and coaches all make the annual pilgrimage to the holy land of Indianapolis, forget their understanding of how the society is operating normally and are trying to determine the superstar potential of the former collegiate depending on their ability to sit or answer questions about their sexual identity and their mother's prostitution charges. You know, shit quite normal.

Sometimes, those with real decision-making power in a team determine whether a potential customer has spent the last two years in the wrong position and will try to make light see it in a whole new role through a variety of workouts the player is not used to doing it. This phenomenon really took off last year when many idiots tried to convince Heisman's winner Lamar Jackson to become a wide receiver. There is no controversy of position of this level in this year's project, but that did not stop some people from trying to do it. The NFL Draft Twitter account has published a list of prospects who have been asked to train in a second position. The most notable name is Trace McSorley, the quarterback of Penn State, who is asked to train as a defender.

McSorley has just finished a career with the Nittany Lions, where he has collected 9,899 yards, 77 touchdowns (he has also accumulated 30 goals) and completed 59.3% of his passes. He was selected by the coaches and the Associated Press in the second All-Big Ten team and was semi-finalist of the Maxwell Award. He has only one year of career on a season where he has collected 3570 yards, 28 touchdowns and completed 66.5% of his passes.

AND STILL, some one saw all those numbers and rewards, would have engulfed a semblance of video game and said, "You know, this guy could be pretty decent in our high school in a few seasons »Think for a moment about third place on your favorite team. – or fourth best receiver. Now imagine a good Big Ten quarterback doing his best to cover it. McSorley would make someone like Will Snead IV look like Reggie Wayne on the pitch. Yes, he played defensive in high school, but when the last collection of receivers you covered was at an age when the prom had an unfathomable importance in their lives, that does not bode well for your potential. That being said, I am totally for a team that invests a lot of time and money in this absolutely disastrous idea.

This almost makes the idea that some teams want two defensive duels to become linebackers all at once, seeming tame. Is Ed Oliver a top talent in this year's class? Yes. Will he have much success, if there is one, at the next level in the middle of the field, trying to shade Saquon Barkley on a flat path? Definitely not. Somewhere, an end of reserve is probably licking his fingers thinking that Dre'Mont Jones will defend him.

One more reminder that most people who judge these players have no idea what they are doing.