It didn’t take an expert watching Tim Tebow play quarterback for Florida over the last four years to see that he was a great college player and a good and decent human being. It also didn’t take a genius to guess that he’d have trouble translating his ample skills to the National Football League, at least if he wanted to continue playing quarterback.

While he was a great scrambler and he could buy enough time in college where his long windup didn’t hurt him he wasn’t going to get away with windmilling his throws playing against elite competition every week.

Those beliefs seemed to be confirmed when Tebow went to the Senior Bowl and promptly struggled – not only with his throwing but with taking snaps from center.

Give Tebow credit for paying attention. In a recent story published at Bleacher Report he indicates a realization that he’s got shortcomings and that he is and plans to continue working on them.

That same story, however, indicates that he won’t throw at the NFL Scouting Combine.

Huh?

If you know you have issues to overcome and you know all the scouts know you have issues to overcome and you say you’ve been working on correcting them wouldn’t you want to show that off?

“The changes I’m making have gone very well and it’s becoming more and more natural to me,” Tebow told ESPN’s Adam Schefter, according to Bleacher Report.

So throw at the Combine. Give scouts a reason to believe they should bump you up on their boards.

I’ve never been a fan of players not doing all the drills at the Combine. To me it shows confidence in your abilities if you go and do everything even if you are projected to be a top pick rather than picking and choosing the drills you are going to take part in. But it’s a bigger mystery when guys who aren’t at the top sit drills out. That only makes it look like you’re trying to cover up weaknesses.

As far as Tebow goes it’s hard to say where he’s projected to go. Most experts seem to indicate that he’ll be drafted but only as a project who’s going to need to sit for a couple years while fine-tuning those fundamentals he missed out on playing in the Gators’ spread offense.

If he is making progress one would think he’d want to take every opportunity he might have to show people and move up a few notches on their draft boards.

Or maybe not. What do I know?