Washington's Jake Locker returning for senior season

He’s going to get picked apart next year and if he doesn’t light the world on fire, will regret not coming out

and roll of the dice. Hopefully for him he doesnt fall to Bradford’s fate

I predicted this. My latest mock alreadly had him staying

Brohm and Woodson might have been first rounds picks if they came out early or the problems that became present over the course of the evaluation process might have driven their stock down as it did when they came out anyway. This is in no way a bad decision. He is choosing to remain in school and work with a well respected QB coach (Sarkisian) to be better prepared for the NFL. Leinart was surrond by some very good talent at USC which helped his stock. Brohm didn’t have Peterino at Louisville his last year and Ryan made very crappy Offensive Dynamic. Locker just has to come out a played the way he did in ’09 and take his team to the next level.

Yes.

Could he start next year…probably not right away, but maybe by mid-season.

Should he declare and sit for a year or 2?….Yes.

He dropped the ball here, his stock probably couldn’t be higher next year. He’s a top 10 pick now…with next year’s class, he may not be.

Also, with a stink senior year (re: worse than this above average year…), he could fall even farther.

HE was always an athlete with a big arm.

Does he become a QB next year? Dunno. At least I hope more Wazzou games are on….

I think this has Sam Bradford part 2 written all over it. Locker has suffered through injuries before and I could see it happening next year. Not to mention a possible rookie cap which COULD make his rookie contract sh!t, compared to this years #10 pick.

He was a top 10 pick this year, and now will have to compete with Jevan Snead, Christian Ponder, Jerrod Johnson, Pat Devlin, Ricky Stanzi, Ryan Mallett, Blaine Gabbert, etc..

Don’t like the move.

but I can see it working out for Jake, seeing as Washington is only going to get better and they are definitely on the upswing now.

And the difference between Locker and Bradford is that Locker hasn’t ever had the luxury of an offensive line filled with NFL prospects and actually faced real pressure before. Bradford being injured this season shouldn’t have surprised anyone and that was a truly dumb move by him to stay considering he was practically guaranteed to go #1, and after winning a Heisman!

Sarkasian has no business advising him on this decision. As if he can be objective about this decision. Let’s see what the University of Washington does for him if [and I pray nothing happens] he is injured.

He MAY improve his draft position from #5 [#10?] to #1[depends on who is picking there] at the best. With an injury or mediocre performance he will be a mid round first at best, not to mention there may be a rookie salary structure in place in 2011.

But its all good for the University of Washington, they will get their money out of him and his Coach may end up getting a better job because of him.
I admire Jake Locker’s generous, selfless actions.

If a Junior QB was ranked in the second to third round range, I would agree that coming back to play another year of college makes sense. But if you are already in the Top Ten, and that is a conservative estimate, what do you have to improve?

Is there any other example of a QB ranked in the top ten who improved his draft standing? ie. consensus top five? Bradford may still pull that off despite what has happened to him in 2009.

According to profootballtalk.com (take it for what it’s worth) a source told them that Locker didn’t even receive a 1st round grade from the advisory board.

I find that shocking if (big IF) that is true.