Terrelle Pryor Reportedly Changing Positions from Quarterback to Wide Receiver

The Cincinnati Bengals announced they released quarterback Terrelle Pryor Thursday afternoon, and it appears as though he's ready to move on from the position entirely in order to keep his NFL dream alive. 

According to Pro Football Talk, Pryor's agent, Drew Rosenhaus, is making it known his client is ready to make the switch to wide receiver. 

"Rosenhaus tells PFT there is extensive interest in Pryor as a receiver," Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio wrote. 

Pryor last took the field as a signal-caller in 2013, when he started nine games and appeared in a total of 11 for the Oakland Raiders. During that stretch, the former Ohio State Buckeye completed 57.4 percent of his passes while throwing for 1,798 yards, seven touchdowns and 11 interceptions. He also ran for 576 yards and a pair of scores, displaying breakaway speed that made him one of the league's more vaunted tuck-and-run threats. 

However, Pryor has never been a particularly accurate passer, which would explain his desire to split out wide and make the move to receiver. 

After getting cut by the Seattle Seahawks last August and now by the Bengals, Pryor will need to pick things up fast. 

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Just last year, he spoke out against a potential change to wide receiver amid rumblings that he wouldn't be able to crack Seattle's roster playing under center.

"I don’t know how to catch," he said, according to the Seattle Times' Jerry Brewer. "I don’t know how to run the ball as a running back. I’ve been a quarterback my whole life."

But as Grantland's Chris B. Brown tweeted, Pryor did flash a bit of receiving ability during his time at Ohio State: 

At 6'6'' and 240 pounds, it's hard to argue Pryor doesn't have the size to make an impact. However, that's better said in theory than in practice.

He would need to learn advanced route trees and prove he can separate from NFL-caliber defensive backs in order to generate interest.  

It can't hurt interested parties to bring Pryor in for a workout, but making a position change this late in his career will undoubtedly be challenging.