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Louisville QB Tyler Shough Scouting Report | 2025 NFL Draft Analysis
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3/24/2025
Joe DeLeone and Ryan Roberts talk about Louisville quarterback Tyler Shough, discussing strengths and weaknesses of the NFL Draft prospect.
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Tyler Shuck has the upside to start in the NFL, but he might be too old to actually succeed.
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Ryan Tyler Shuck, 25 year old quarterback with all the tools to be a starter.
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How the heck are we supposed to project the guy like this?
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I think you need to isolate it, Joe, because in a vacuum you go, Hey, he's a 25 year old
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late, late year rate career breakout guy, right?
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But when you really kind of take a step back and look at it, this was his first full year
00:34
as a starter when he was able to maintain health.
00:37
So I would argue that this breakout may have happened a couple of different years ago,
00:41
but it just so happens that the injuries and just some kind of the things that had worked
00:44
against him early on in his career affected his development.
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So he might be 25, he might be looked at as kind of a weird, just kind of chasm of, Hey,
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this guy is developmental, but he's still a little bit older.
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But I think there's a lot of upside with the Tyler Shuck.
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And I don't think that we've seen the best football from him because of the limited sample
01:01
size and playing amount that he's been able to play during his career.
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Yeah.
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Six foot five to 15.
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He's got all those tools though, that we look for in somebody who could be a developmental
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day to eventual starter for a team.
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If he was a junior, I kind of wonder, we'd be talking about them differently.
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Hey, young guy, who's got this big arm, who drives the ball really well downfield, a quick
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trigger decision maker.
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He's able to make a lot of different difficult throws all over the field because he has that
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arm strength and also a good athlete for a six foot five guy.
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All of those things sound awesome when we're talking about a 21 year old, but because he's
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25, it does feel a little odd to me.
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I'd be willing to take him somewhere in the second, third round as a backup with the,
01:46
with the hope that he does start for my team, but it just does feel a little weird selecting
01:51
somebody with that intent and him being like maybe 27 by the time he gets a shot.
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Yeah.
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I would be willing to draft him in a similar range.
02:01
He's more of a late day to guy for me.
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So I'm talking about like late third rounds.
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It is kind of weird because if we're, if you believe that he is a starter in the NFL level
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as an NFL team, you do kind of have to fast track them a little bit, right?
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Like this isn't a kid that you're like three years down the road.
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Like you're going to have to try to figure this out in the next, you know, 12, 18 months.
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If that is realistic option for him longterm, but it's so funny because I think you said
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it perfectly.
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If he was 21 or even 22 years old, just coming off the season that he had, he didn't have
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injuries in his background and all the other minutia that we're kind of working through.
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I mean, there's some people mocking him in the late first rounds.
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Wouldn't we be talking about him in that similar vein?
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If not for a, for all the complications that he brings to the table, like this is a top
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50 talents potentially just in a vacuum at the quarterback position.
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The problem is is that the other stuff is where it really kind of drags down his evaluation
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a little bit.
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And talking about the weaknesses, I think provides the context of why the tools that
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he has for his age outweigh the upside because he's 25 because he's not a perfectly well-rounded
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prospect.
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It gives you a little bit of pause because if there does need to be some improvement
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and some development and some exposure to the pro game, again, while by the time he's
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like actually really hitting his peak, he might be 28, 29 years old.
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Some of those weaknesses that stood out to me, Ryan, he's really inconsistent with his
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ball placement.
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There's some balls that he places that are perfect hitting a guy in stride and they're
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just moving.
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Everything looks awesome.
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And then it's just Aaron, the ball is just nowhere.
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The ball flutters.
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He doesn't set his feet.
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That inconsistency is very frustrating for me.
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And again, for a 25 year old, it's not like Bo Nix last year where he came out and he
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was a little bit more ready to go.
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Shuck doesn't fit that description.
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Well, you know, what's funny is I wish he would have had a second year under Jeff Brom,
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right?
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Like I wish that we could like rewind and he could have went to Louisville or gone with
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coach Brom.
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I mean, two years ago rather than just one year, because coach Brom is known for getting
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guys from a mechanical perspective, really well, really at a high level.
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Like Aiden O'Connell is an example of like Aiden O'Connell is not a very talented athlete
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or a talented passer, but he's really mechanically sound, which is why he's playing in the NFL
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right now.
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Tyler Shuck is not.
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Tyler Shuck is very, he's a little bit of a gunslinger, right?
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Like he sacrifices mechanics at times to make big plays, to go big game hunting.
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And that affects accuracy that affects his base.
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I do think he kind of just generally speaking has, has some inconsistencies from post snap
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reads.
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Late rotations kind of bother him at certain instances.
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All the talent is there.
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And the good thing for him though, is that he is a quarterback, right?
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So we are talking about a longer shelf life at the quarterback position.
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This isn't like a running back where it's like 28 years old.
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You're done, bro.
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Like you don't have a shelf life to be able to develop.
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He still has a little bit of a runway here.
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The biggest concern, Joe, that I think we kind of just kind of been skating over as
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a collective though, is seven years.
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Basically you only had one really healthy season in seven years.
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There's a couple others where he was semi-healthy, but he's had a long string of durability and
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injury concerns.
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So we can talk about projecting forward to three years, but how are we so safely projecting
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that he's even going to be able to stay healthy during that time as well?
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Like that's another part of this, this projection.
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That's a little bit murky for me, for me, in my opinion, that leads perfectly into talking
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about his background, because this is a guy who's been playing college football for a
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million years.
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He's been around for so long, originally started at Oregon.
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He was the sixth pro style quarterback in the 2018 recruiting class.
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If anybody wants some added weird context, I played the division one football at Rhode
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Island.
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I was the 2016 class.
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I haven't played football in four years, over four years coming up on five years in the
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fall.
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That is how crazy this is.
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He ended up at Oregon.
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He transferred to Texas tech and then he found himself playing in Brahms offense where he
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unlocked his potential the most out of any destination at Louisville to end his career.
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I just want to throw out his quarterback class real quick before we kind of wrap this guy
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up in a minute here, Joe, but he was a part of that 2018 quarterback class.
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Like you said, top hundred recruits out of the state of Arizona, he was considered the
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number six quarterback, number 94 overall player, according to two, four, seven sports.
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He went to Hamilton high school in Chandler, Arizona.
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The five quarterbacks that were in front of him.
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Number one, Trevor Lawrence, who just got a second contract, JT Daniels.
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Number two, Tanner McKee, Superbowl winner, Tanner McKee, backup quarterback for the Philadelphia
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Eagles.
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We have Jaren Williams who played at Miami for a couple of years and then the last quarterback
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that was in front of him, Matt Corral, former Ole Miss great Matt Corral.
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Number 15 quarterback class in that class according to two, four, seven sports was Joe
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Milton.
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By the way, I know you're a big Joe Milton guy to talk about a pro comp for Tyler Shuck.
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You like the idea of him is Ryan Tannehill and I like that Tannehill wasn't as old coming
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into the NFL, but wasn't a fully baked prospect because he played some receiver, good athlete,
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big frame, and he started to hit his stride a little bit later on in his NFL career and
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his best season came in his final years with the dolphins.
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And then with the Tennessee Titans was when we saw him at his best.
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I really like this comparison though.
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I think that there's a, there's a lot to be, to be drawn from it.
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Well, I think that late, the late career blossoming for Ryan Tannehill is very interesting for
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different reasons.
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But like you said, he was a quarterback that turned a wide receiver out of necessity at
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Texas A&M.
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And then there was only a one year starter at Texas A&M.
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You saw a lot of upside, but there was a lot that needed to improve and a lot of playing
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time that needed to be had.
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And I feel the same about Tyler Shuck.
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And athletically, they're very similar.
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Ryan Tannehill, I think ran like four, six, seven at six, four plus 220 pounds.
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So like similarly sized athletes, stronger arms, but then also they are really athletic
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for their size as well.
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So I think physically it makes a lot of sense and that late runway of development is very
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interesting as well.
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Folks, let us know in the comments below what team do you want to see Tyler Shuck be drafted
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by?
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We'll talk to you later.
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