HEIGHT: 6'5"

WEIGHT: 235

HAND: 10¼"

ARM: 33⅜"

WINGSPAN: 80⅝"

40-YARD DASH: N/A

3-CONE: N/A

SHUTTLE: N/A

VERTICAL: 35"

BROAD: 10'1"

POSITIVES

— Special arm strength. Elite velocity and distance from any throwing platform.

— Good athlete, especially when he can stride out in the open field.

— Tough in the pocket. Unafraid to stand tall and take hits.

— Flashes of impressive pocket movement. Keeps eyes up and moves with short, efficient steps.

— Good deep-ball accuracy. Can throw them on a rope or add some arc when need be.

NEGATIVES

— Scattershot accuracy anywhere short of 20 yards. Struggles in the 1-10 yard range in particular.

— Spot thrower. Struggles to understand and throw against a defender's leverage to help the receiver out.

— Awkward, almost robotic thrower whenever he is off rhythm. It's as if he tenses up trying to get back on time.

— Very little experience and effectiveness throwing NFL concepts coming from Tennessee's offense. Requires a ton of projection.

2023 STATISTICS

— 12 G, 229-354 (64.7%), 2,813 YDS (7.9 AVG), 20 TD, 5 INT; 78 ATT, 299 YDS (3.8 AVG), 7 TD

NOTES

— Born March 6, 2000

— 4-star recruit in Michigan's 2018 class, per 247Sports' composite rankings

— Transferred to Tennessee in 2021

— 21 career starts

— Attended 2024 Senior Bowl

— Minor knee injury early in 2023, did not miss time

OVERALL

Joe Milton is an uber-talented player with very few projectible traits and experience for the NFL.

Everything with Milton starts with the arm talent. He has a quick, powerful throwing motion in which the ball jumps off his hand. Milton throws with blistering velocity and the kind of downfield range that can threaten defenses goal line to goal line. All of his best throws are down the field. In theory, every piece of grass must be defended against Milton.

Milton is a good athlete as well. He is explosive and agile for his size, but wins more as a strider in space. He is a dangerous mover when he leaves the pocket and commits to being a runner.

Milton shows admirable toughness in the pocket, too. He isn't afraid of the pocket closing on him, and he's shown flashes of impressive pocket movement with his eyes up.

However, Milton is a sort of robotic thrower. He struggles to adjust and find throwing platforms consistently beyond his first read, though there are sparse flashes of him doing so.

Milton is also largely inaccurate, especially in the underneath area. The closer a throw is to the line of scrimmage, the more Milton's intense velocity and lack of touch is a burden rather than a gift.

Moreover, Milton comes from a Tennessee offense that asked very little from him as a processor. A good chunk of the offense was built on screens, RPOs and simplified vertical reads. Milton requires a ton of projection as an NFL-level processor and decision-maker.

Milton is too talented to not take a chance on. His arm talent is otherworldly, and his pocket toughness is a good cornerstone trait. With that said, being a 24-year-old developmental player with spotty accuracy suggests Milton faces a long and winding road before he becomes a serious starting quarterback in the NFL.

GRADE: 5.8 (Backup/Draftable — 6th/7th Round)

OVERALL RANK: 197

POSITION RANK: QB9

PRO COMPARISON: Logan Thomas

Written by B/R NFL Scout Derrik Klassen

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