Drew Lock Is Poised to Rise Up NFL Draft Boards

The Missouri quarterback returned for his senior year for the chance to play under an NFL mind. It’s still early, but it looks like the move will pay off next spring

With a little more than three minutes left in a tie game, facing a second-and-10 at Missouri’s 25-yard line, Drew Lock dropped back and scanned the field left to right for an open receiver. He ran through his progressions, but all four optionss were covered. With pressure coming, he escaped the pocket to his right and then stepped up and looked left for his running back, Tyler Badie.

Badie had originally been pass-protecting. He cut-blocked Purdue linebacker Cornel Jones, and seeing that Lock had extended the play, quickly got up…