"By all accounts, Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor was very interested in improving his game before the scandal that had him at its center rocked the Buckeyes to the core. Now, he's a lockout-fed cause célèbre in NFL terms, because of the value of quarterbacks and his pure athletic potential. But as a quarterback? Pryor is coming into the NFL very much as a work in progress.

Nobody understands that better than the man himself. Just last October, he said that he finally felt like a quarterback from a playbook and mechanical perspective. "I feel like I can be a complete quarterback, but I can also run the ball. It's going to be interesting, just how much smarter I am and how much I grew. ... It's the first time I could actually look at film and see how much I've grown and matured. I go through the reads right, I hit my checkdowns now, I take the right steps in the handoff. It just feels like everything is good."

Everything was supposed to be better over time, but things happened as they did, and Pryor is now one of the outcasts in an increasingly broken situation. That's the college story. Now, he's hired Drew Rosenhaus, he's working with former Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Ken Anderson, and he's getting ready for a to-be-determined pro day that should ease his way into the supplemental draft.

Rather than going through the legal and ethical arguments in the case of Terrelle Pryor and tryng to extrapolate how that transfers to intangibles (a sketchy expedition at best), I thought it better to stick with what happened on the field. Based on game tape, is this guy ready to play — or even ride the bench — in the NFL?"