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Originally Posted by skinsfan69
Not sure if you know this or not but Andrew Walter is the all time leading passer in Pac Ten history. That's a pretty strong resume considering some of the QB's that have played in the Pac Ten. He had a way better college career than JC did. Lombardi knows his stuff and coming out of college I could've easily saw why people had Walter graded higher than JC.
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Off the top of my head, I did not know that, but I remember hearing it from multiple sources.
Most draft analysts did have them ranked together as second round prospects, but the league guys did seem to convincingly prefer Campbell to Walter. Lombardi's opinion seems to be in the vast minority here.
Also, using hindsight, totally incorrect. My problem is more how he's posturing this today, as opposed to objectively grading Campbell, he seems to be hoping that he fails so he doesn't have to explain his evaluation of the two guys in the future. Not dissimilar to the reason I dislike Blache. Being wrong is one thing. Lombardi should just admit it, move on, forget about it. Don't let it affect his evaluations in the future.
But I can see, statistically, how Walter and Campbell actually had similar draft profiles (and how Walter was significantly more productive at the same level), in context of conference. Good point.