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The last few years, my Six From Saturday notes have been included at the bottom of my MMQB column on Monday mornings. This year, they’ll be published as a separate post each week. Here are my thoughts on this weekend’s college action, geared mostly toward what should be of interest to NFL fans.
1) Saturday’s stage was a big one for Tennessee QB Hendon Hooker. He crushed it against Alabama, and he’s one prospect the NFL already had its eyes on. Age is one knock against him—the sixth-year senior, who played four years at Virginia Tech before transferring over, will be 25 on draft day. Another is the offense he’s coming from, where receivers line up very, very wide (like they would in Art Briles’s offense at Baylor), so the Vols can run at light boxes and give Hooker big passing windows to throw into (he rarely has to throw receivers open). That said, Hooker’s got physical ability along the lines of a Case Keenum or a Geno Smith, who played in similar offenses in college and were better athletes with bigger arms than people gave them credit for.
