- Big, strong guy with excellent frame and musculature despite only being 6'2" tall.
- Fast, quick feet, good ball carrying skills. His feet are a weapon the defense must account for.
- Has played wide receiver, tight end, full back, running back. Have to be smart to move all around like that.
- Good communication skills. Widely regarded by teammates to be the leader. Has TWO Master's degrees.
- Easily the fastest release I've seen in the 2018 draft. His release is so quick, it's a major weapon.
- Great natural arm strength that can get even better if he keeps working on consistency in footwork.
- Very accurate with the football. Throws players open. Makes decisions about ball trajectory and touch.
- Doesn't over-rely on one receiving weapon; efficient chemistry with a dozen different players.
- An intangible physicality; absolutely not intimidated by bodies cluttering the pocket. This is a big deal.
- Regularly gets through to his third option, can get from one side of the field to the other with timing and accuracy.
- Keeps his eyes up while scrambling and can flick the ball on a hair trigger to the open player.
- Ran a blazing fast no-huddle, much like Jimmy Garoppolo did at Eastern Illinois. Requires fast information processing.
- Took a team that hadn't won more than 6 games in a decade, won 8 games, beat an FBS team, won a playoff game.
- Tough. Played with an injured throwing hand for much of 2017. Had to start throwing with a glove.
- Throwing Stats: 316 of 481 (66%) for 4,134 yards (8.6 YPA), 31 TDs (6.4%), 8 INTs (1.7%).
- Rushing Stats: 168 runs, +870 positive gains, -150 negative gains (sack yardage), 11 TDs.
If I had to really boil it down to what is so attractive with Chris Streveler, it is that he has a lot of intangibles in terms of physicality inside the pocket, leadership, intelligence, and yet he also has tangible qualities in terms of his strength, feet, ball carrying skills, arm strength, and especially that hair trigger release.
With Streveler playing at a perennial loser in the FCS, turning them into a winner, he's not about to be intimidated by the FCS Championship Game runner-up (beating Bo Pellini's Youngstown State), nor by an FBS team (beating Bowling Green). He's going to carry that offense on his back, representing about 71% of the offense's yardage and 66% of its touchdowns. And if he goes down to a better team in the FCS playoffs, he's going to go down swinging, scoring 42 points of offense, accounting for 571 yards and 6 TDs on his own.
If he doesn't have the time in the pocket to operate the offense, then he doesn't have the time in the pocket to operate the offense. There's not much to be done about that. Streveler's offensive line was NOT good. But he's not going to be overwhelmed, regardless. He's going to stand in there, make passes with guys in his face, take hits and pop back up, and even do some things with his feet to buy time and get a pass off. That snap trigger of Streveler's is a real weapon, yet his mechanics are not standard issue. That makes me compare him to a Phil Rivers.
I really think you can do worse than a guy who is a physical specimen, has intangible qualities, the quickest release in the draft, and is intelligent enough to have accumulated two master's degrees by the time he was done with school. Even in the FCS.
