I’m making a couple of assumptions here, so please bear with me.

It feels like the biggest factor that makes or breaks a quarterback’s NFL career is the ability to read defenses and react accordingly.

Guys like Brady and Manning weren’t the greatest athletes, but they were off-the-charts with this aspect of the game. Meanwhile, guys like Zach Wilson and Justin Fields seem to read defenses about as well as I read French.

Is it fair to say that this ability is one of the toughest things to assess in a quarterback coming out of college? Or is it that teams that are bad at drafting quarterbacks pay too much attention to the 40-yard cross-body throw and not enough to the more cerebral read/react parts of the game?