San Jose State QB David Fales is now a member of the Chicago Bears. He was drafted in the sixth round, and that’s a steal when you consider, if you’re a NFL mock draft dork like I am, that Fales was considered a first round pick in late summer/early fall NFL mock drafts. So he slid quite a bit. Was that the first of many #EpicFales to come? David Fales has the inside track now to be QB3, does he deserve to be QB2?
Well, I often joke that Jordan Knight might be as effective a second string quarterback as Jordan Palmer, but I’m just having fun. When your starter, Jay Cutler, makes more money than anyone in the NFL this fall at $22.5 million, you’re probably not going to have much at the back-up position.
Well, ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr knows the way to San Jose, and here’s what he had to say today on media conference call about David Fales.
“Some people thought was a third, I wasn’t as high on David Fales,” Kiper said of the Spartan.
“Some questioned his arm strength, I thought it was fine. I just thought he was a good, but not exceptional college quarterback, who looks like a career back-up. However, Kiper believes that David Fales is in the perfect situation in Chicago.
“You have a veteran quarterback already there, you have a great quarterback developer in Marc Trestman, there’s no pressure on David Fales to develop right away, he’s a late round pick. He can work on his game probably develop his arm strength and maybe become the heir apparent, but he went right about where I thought he would.”
I think David Fales is probably a safer bet than the trio of SEC late round QBs. Georgia’s Aaron Murray is the only one of the three I would want on my team. He’s a warrior, a gamer, a winner, but he’s battered and bruised beyond belief. I think Fales is a better option. Zach Mettenberger has the unholy trinity of a sexual assault, a failed drug test and an ACL injury, so that guy is going nowhere my roster and AJ McCarron is exceedingly arrogant and comes off rather douchey. With out the talent to back up his cocky attitude.
So David Fales it is.
#SpartansWill
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