INDIANAPOLIS — North Dakota State won the NCAA FCS championship in each of Carson Wentz's five seasons on the roster, the last two with him as a starter.
He's a 6-foot-5, 237-pound quarterback with 10-inch hands, ideal sizes in the eyes of NFL scouts.
Accuracy is one of his strengths, and mobility is not a weakness. He's affable and confident, without any hint of off-the-field trouble. His team ran an offense that translates better to the professional game than the read-option and spread schemes that have proliferated throughout the college game.
Yet there's still skepticism that Wentz, fair or not, will continue to face until he takes his first snap because his competition didn't take place in a power conference.