The Football Recruiting Process for Quarterbacks and their Size

One of the more interesting pieces of the position by position football recruiting PDF was that I broke down the size that college coaches are looking for at different positions (This e-book is still for sale at only $5.00 so click here for more information).  This got me thinking about all the different sizes of players in all classes at different positions.

I decided to take a look at the top five teams in Division I-A (aka BCS), Division I-AA (aka FCS), Division II, and Division III as they were ranked in polls last week.  I looked up each school, their starting quarterback, and how big they are.  Out of this group of twenty quarterbacks only three were under 6-foot.

Two of those three quarterbacks just didn’t have the size to play at a higher level as they are both at the Division III level.  My guess is that at the Division I level, they do a better job in measuring and make sure that the athletes do not have shoes on.  This is just something interest for quarterbacks to compare themselves to and something to think about when marketing yourself to a certain level of college coaches.  Anyways, onto the list:

BCS
Oklahoma
Sam Bradford 6-foot-4 218 pounds

Missouri
Chase Daniels 6-foot 225 pounds

LSU
Jarrett Lee 6-foot-2 216 pounds

Alabama
John Parker Wilson 6-foot-2 211 pounds

Texas
Colt McCoy 6-foot-3 210 pounds

FCS
James Madison
Rodney Landers 6-foot1 220 pounds

Appalachian St.
Armanti Edwards 6-foot, 184 pounds

McNeese St.
Derrick Fourroux 6-foot-2 200 pounds

New Hampshire
R.J. Toman 6-foot-1 195 pounds

Richmond
Eric Ward 6-foot-3 213 pounds

Division II
Grand Valley
Brad Iciek  6-foot-1 195 pounds

North Alabama
A.J. Milwee 5-foot-10 175 pounds

Abilene Christian
Billy Malone 6-foot-3 230 pounds

West Texas A&M
Keith Null 6-foot-4 220 pounds

Northwest Missouri State
Joel Osborn 6-foot-2 220 pounds

Division III
Mount Union
Greg Micheli 6-foot-3 203 pounds

UW-Whitewater
Jeff Donovan 6-foot-5 187 pounds

Mary Hardin-Baylor
Josh Saenz 5-foot-11 187 pounds

Capital
Marty Assmann 6-foot-1 190 pounds

Muhlenberg
Eric Santagato 5-foot-8 178 pounds

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