NFL Draft 2023: Anthony Richardson, the unscoutable quarterback

Florida quarterback Anthony Richardson is probably the most polarizing prospect in the 2023 NFL Draft class. Some might argue that this title should instead go to Kentucky’s Will Levis, who deserves and will get his own post, but I think Levis is a pretty simple scout. Richardson is different because projecting Richardson is functionally impossible.

I typically use statistics of my own creation, QBOPS and QwOBA, to identify good quarterback prospects and eliminate poor ones, but with Richardson that’s a frivolous exercise. You don’t need any fancy advanced stats of ay kind to parse out the statistical case against Richardson. The simple fact is that 114 quarterbacks threw enough passes to…