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Former Tennessee Vols QB Joshua Dobbs’s NFL Draft Stock Continues to Rise

By Caleb Calhoun

Dec 30, 2016; Nashville , TN, USA; Tennessee Volunteers quarterback Joshua Dobbs (11) warms up prior to the game against the Nebraska Cornhuskers at Nissan Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 30, 2016; Nashville , TN, USA; Tennessee Volunteers quarterback Joshua Dobbs (11) warms up prior to the game against the Nebraska Cornhuskers at Nissan Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports /
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Former Tennessee Volunteers quarterback Joshua Dobbs’s NFL Draft stock has been rising for weeks now. And it keeps going higher for the football genius.

Coming out of college, most NFL Draft experts initially projected Josh Dobbs to be a mid-round pick, somewhere in the fourth or fifth round. But now, the former Vols QB is projected to go dramatically higher.

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According to Wes Rucker of GoVols247, ESPN’s Mark Dominik is the most recent analyst to say that Dobbs will go higher than people think. He joined previous analysts in projecting that Dobbs could now go in the second round.

Here’s what he said about the quarterback.

"“Dobbs is an impressive prospect. He majored in aerospace engineering at Tennessee, so he clearly has the intelligence you need to play NFL quarterback at a high level. And from a physical standpoint, he has everything you look for: size, mobility, arm strength and speed. Now that his rigorous college classes are behind him, he has a ton of potential as he commits all of his time to football. I’ve heard talk from others that he’s a third- or fourth-round pick, but I think he’ll come off the board in the second round."

Domnik’s quotes come after a long period of Dobbs’s rising stock.

This all started after Dobbs’s solid Senior Day performance and impressive NFL Combine. The 6’3″ 216-pound quarterback ran  a 4.64 40-yard dash.

And building off of what Dominik said, nobody was going to question his intelligence.

And everybody that meets him falls in love with his intangibles. It’s the nice-guy factor that helps push up his stock as well.

Now, his prospects are flying higher than the airplanes he’s so interested in as an aerospace engineer.

Mel Kiper started it three weeks ago by projecting Dobbs to go in the second round.

But over the weekend, Todd McShay took a huge leap by saying on Mike and Mike that he could be a late first-round pick.

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So Dobbs is looking better and better, and that’s a huge plus for him. We can now start looking on Thursday to see if somebody takes a risk on him.

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