Position: Quarterback
Height: 6’3
Weight: 240
Stats: 2025 (9 Games) – 62%, 1536 yards, 7 TD, 5 INT, 88 att, 425 yards, 3 TD, 5 fumbles, 4.5% BTT, 3.1% Turnover Worthy Plays
Class/Age: RS Sophomore, 20
Team: South Carolina
Positives:
LaNorris Sellers is a magical prospect to watch and try and evaluate. For starters, Sellers has been pressured on 47.8% of his dropbacks this season, the highest by nearly 15% in the country. Undre Pressure, Sellers has been poor but his large sample size shows flashes of brilliance as well.
A year removed from a 66% completion, 2534 yards, 18 TD, 7 INT, and over 800 rushing yards with 7 TD Sellers has a ton of traits that make him interesting. Sellers has prototypical NFL size at 6’3, 240 and he looks all of it with a well built frame and good solid strength. To pair with his size, Sellers has an elite level of athleticism with exceptional movement skills and running ability. Sellers displays high end ability to accelerate out of cuts and has true 4.4 speed at the quarterback position. Sellers is able to work and extend plays with his legs, scramble for large chunks, and also work as a designed runner in the offensive system. Additionally, Sellers shows the ability to utilize his legs well in the pocket and has the ability to step up and evade pressure, move to his left or right and extend the play well. While moving, Sellers continues to keep his eyes downfield and can find open targets, while also having the knowledge and awareness to throw the ball away, take his checkdown, or convert to a full time runner. Sellers pairs his elite athletic traits with an exceptional arm. Sellers has a true high end NFL arm and displays elite ability to generate passes 50+ yards downfield while also generating exceptional zip and velocity on pass attempts. Sellers is able to utilize his full frame to create strong armed throws into tight windows that displays NFL caliber ability. Sellers has good pocket awareness as mentioned, and understands the timing of the position and when to get rid of the ball or move instead of relying solely on his legs and looking to run first. He’s a high IQ player who shows the ability to read the defense pre snap and create opportunities for himself, Sellers displays a good ability to manipulate defenses with his eyes and feet before making throws or running. In addition, Sellers has shown a good ability to create touch and layer passes though consistency is an issue. At just 20 years old, the QB has a large window of growth in his future and has displayed high end traits and processing as is. Sellers does a good job with accuracy at times though it will need some improvement, he shows the ability to create hole shots and throw into the tight windows and with anticipation. Additionally, Sellers has an ability to keep decent footwork and shown the ability to scissor his footwork and recorrect before throws.
Weakness:
Sellers has regressed this season, largely in part to an awful offensive system paired with a true lack of talent at the offensive line and wide receiver positions, though Sellers isn’t spare of blame. Sellers has to improve his accuracy and touch overall, especially with consistency. Sellers has a tendency to get low on the ball and push passes high while also having instances where he just missed the throw wide as well or low. Sellers, often has inconsistent footwork that can cause for him to have these poor throws, and that consistency to clean it up will be crucial. Sellers has a tendency to play too fast and can get panicked at times under pressure or when blitzed, quarterbacks with this issue tend to have a tough struggle at times in the NFL though Sellers pocket presences and awareness might help mitigate this when he’s pressured less (see 2024). The sophomore QB has shown an ability to anticipate and throw with anticipation though he’s struggled as well and can lead to those poor throws outside the receivers frame, in addition he will need to refine his ability to throw into separation and YAC where Sellers has a tendency at times to not put the ball a yard or so in front of his receiver when able too and prevents additional yardage. Sellers has an issue with turnovers and has had his fair share of issues throwing into poor reads or errant throws that causes a turnover, in addition to a fumbling issues (16 in 2 years) which will need to be eliminated in the NFL quickly. Sellers has inconsistent footwork, and his mechanics are clean and fluid so footwork improvement should help in eliminating the issues with errant throws along with steady coaching.
Grade: 1.95 – Late 1st Round
Pro-Comp: Jalen Hurts
Sellers is fascinating, there’s the clear choice of whether or not he will declare this season or leave to another program. That said, Sellers has the traits and athleticism alone that will get him picked inside the top 20 selections most likely. Before anyone says it, no he is not Anthony Richardson and couldn’t be farther from that. Sellers ideally is a QB that can sit for 1-2 seasons, similar to Hurts and Jordan Love, which will allow him to refine the footwork, learn the position, and understand the NFL level. Sellers best fit is a team which has stable coaching looking for a new QB in the near future (see Rams). As for the Raiders, while Sellers displays elite traits and arm talent you can’t bank on him to be a starter day one or even year one and doing so is a failure to him. Teams fail young QBs quicker than the QB fails the franchise, and Las Vegas would be in a risky spot to do so with Sellers. He’s a high risk high reward prospect but if things click, Sellers has the ability to be a multi time Pro Bowl and MVP caliber QB.
