Chris Simms
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And that hurt Diego Pavia, also that he's not a tall guy.
Most of your backup quarterbacks, if you check, are not short quarterbacks.
Diego Pavia might be 5'10", but you start to look at what you did in your pre-draft meetings with teams.
Shurdur Sanders fell to the fifth round.
It wasn't anything that he was doing on the football field.
It was just personality.
Fifth round, Pavia goes undrafted.
He didn't have an agent, but you have Tebow, Cam Newton, Kaepernick, other examples of your backup quarterback being too much of a headline or potential for a headline.
Pavia is being invited a tryout with the Ravens.
He wasn't signed as an undrafted free agent.
He gets to try out.
Now, he's also friends with Johnny Manziel.
That doesn't help.
And you start to belittle Indiana football, Fernando Mendoza, Heisman Knight.
Football moves on quickly.
You can be, just ask Johnny Manziel.
It moves quickly.
It's like, oh, yeah, what are you doing now?
Nothing.
Okay.