(01-26-2017 09:34 PM)NIU1981 Wrote:  I think all of our QBs have a chance to be very good but I'm probably in the minority there. With Santa, Childers, Thompson and Hall the coaches have done a good job filling the pipeline with young talent. And I may be the only person in Huskie Nation who thinks Graham can be very good if he just calms the eff down out there and makes the easy completions. It would not shock me to see him start in '18. Heads would explode but that could happen.

Also, I expected Wieland to end up on defense so I don't see him affecting our QB situation. He's such a freak athlete I could see the coaches saying you can play QB and wait a little bit or play defense and be on the field this fall.

81 you're one of my favorite posters on here so don't take this wrong way, but what do you see from Graham that makes you think he can be pretty good? Doesn't have a strong arm, isn't overly accurate, and he's not overly athletic either. I just don't see what upside he has there.

Think about it, NIU won 5 games last year. Maddie went 3-2 as a starter, Santa went 2-0 (i'm giving him the EMU game), Graham played the majority of 4 games and went 0-4 lol.

Now yes, judging QBs by record is an ungodly flawed stat, but it's hard to unsee some of those duds Graham laid last year.

People talk about how down NIU was (and they were), but if Maddie takes over immediately for Hare and stays healthy, NIU beats WIU, probably beats Toledo, and goes 7-5. A down, but not disastrous year especially when you consider how legitimately tough their OOC schedule was.

Honestly, if Maddie plays i think they beat Wyoming too but that's beside the point.

If you look at Graham's raw numbers from 2016, they're not significantly worse than 2015. I just don't see it where you're going to win many games with him at QB.

Odds are Maddie won't stay healthy all of 2017, so Graham will have a shot to play if he can beat Santa out this summer, but i just don't see it.

To me, NIU's QB situation is pray to God Maddie stays healthy in 2017, hope Hall is as good as advertised, and then not a whole lot else.