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Shades of Justin Fields? CBS analyst explains why Joe Milton’s struggles at Tenn. remind him of Fields
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Former Ohio State Buckeye and Chicago Bears rookie quarterback Justin Fields has been in the headlines a lot during the off-season to now. Now, former Georgia quarterback and CBS Sports analyst Aaron Murray is strangely comparing current Tennessee Volunteers quarterback Joe Milton to Fields.
Milton – the ex-Michigan QB who transferred to the Volunteers this off-season – has struggled a bit to open the year. That makes Murray’s comparison a bit odd, though Murray did explain Milton’s struggles remind him of Fields’ freshman season at Georgia.
Here’s what Murray had to say in an interview with Mike Wilson of the Knoxville News Sentinel:
“He has been told his whole life that you have a rocket arm,” Murray told Wilson. “You can throw the ball harder than anyone else out there. It is too much. You are seeing overthrows and balls that aren’t catchable. You are seeing easy slant passes that are behind the receiver because you are throwing it as hard as you can and you are a little bit late. I think if he can work on that and he still is young, I think he has the ability.”…“Justin, his whole life, and this is an issue I see with lots of quarterbacks, they think that I need to throw the football 100 miles an hour to be successful,” Murray said. “I think he learned when he transferred to Ohio State that is not the move. That is not what you want to do. It is all about touch. It is about anticipation and making the ball catchable.”
Murray seems to compare the struggles of Fields’ throwing mechanics such as the power in his throws. Murray brings up a questionable point that Milton is throwing too-strong of passes to his receivers that Fields did in his freshman year at Georgia.
Murray brings up the point that Fields struggled with overthrowing his receivers on deep routes while at Georgia, which is similar to what Milton is doing at Tennessee. Georgia fans are not keen on what Fields has done after transferring from Georgia to Ohio State and becoming a star quarterback.
Milton is currently losing his main quarterback role at Tennessee to Hendon Hooker while Fields is looking to secure the starting quarterback job of Chicago.