Caleb Williams NFL Draft 2024: Combine Results, Scouting Report For USC QB

Caleb Williams' 2024 NFL COMBINE RESULTS

• Height: 6'1"
• Weight: 214 lbs
• 40-Time: DNP (Did Not Participate)
• 10-Yard Split: DNP
• Vertical: DNP
• Broad Jump: DNP
• 3-Cone: DNP
• Shuttle: DNP

Caleb Williams 2024 NFL DRAFT SCOUTING REPORT

STRENGTHS:

• Good ball carriage with a firm base ready to deliver. Compact yet powerful motion with easy drive velocity. 
• Showed subtle pocket movement, maintaining his downfield focus and re-setting his base to drive the ball.
• Innate ability to make off-platform throws in the face of pressure and drive the ball at the intermediate levels.
• Power arm strength to drive the ball and outstanding second reaction ability to make plays outside of structure.
• Showed arm talent to make pace and touch throws when demanded. Could lay the ball out in front of receivers.
• Flashed the patience in the pocket and recognition of coverage to progression read from one side to the other.
• Made some outstanding second-reaction throws, moving to his left with velocity and precise ball placement.
• Special playmaking dimension, with his ability to make big-time throws on the move. Shows high-level improvisation.
• Outstanding feel for pressure and how to avoid and escape to make plays with his legs. Calm and composed.
• High-level field vision and spatial awareness allowed him to extend and create big plays out of chaos.
• Consistently precise ball placement on different kinds of throws. Threw with velocity, pace and touch.
• Gives offense designed run game element in specific situations. Effective on zone-read concepts. He's a good athlete.
• 2023 – Flashed the timing and anticipation demanded at the next level. Showed he could throw into windows.
• Snaps he showed comfortable pocket patience working through progressions making late-in-the-down throws.
• He effectively secured the ball with two hands when he moved in the pocket and reset his platform to deliver it.

WEAKNESSES:

• Tendency at times to climb the pocket when not needed. The results were drop backs where he created his own pressure.
• Needs to work on playing with more consistent, fundamental technique and discipline in the pocket.
• At times, a beat late with throws due to a lack of clean footwork in the pocket. Did not plant ready to deliver.
• 2022 tape did not show many timing and anticipation throws from the pocket. Must work on that part of his game.
• Not as accountable to the structure and execution of the system as coaches would want him to be.
• 2023 – Needs improvement with his footwork at the top of his drop. Tendency to hop and shuffle rather than plant.
• Showed a tendency to stay focused on routes-concepts when the coverage showed quickly it was not there.
• Too many drop backs when he left throws on the field within the context of the pass game concepts.
• Almost no college experience playing from under center (seven snaps in two years at USC). That’s a learned trait.
• He has a strong arm but is not a Tier 1 arm at the level of Josh Allen, Justin Herbert or Matthew Stafford; he will not be in that conversation in the NFL.