Urban Meyer on Tim Tebow: 'I don't doubt Tim can do anything'
Tim Tebow played for Urban Meyer at Florida. Now with the Patriots, Tebow is just looking to make the team. On Monday, Meyer was asked if his former star quarterback could play tight end in the NFL.
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Ryan Wilson
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Hernandez's current situation probably has a lot to do with Meyer's decision to not say anything on the matter.
Bring up Tebow, however, and Meyer is a regular Chatty Cathy.
Tebow won a Heisman Trophy at Florida and helped the Gators to two national titles, all while playing quarterback. But the skills that made him so successful in college haven't translated to the NFL, which invariably leads to conversations about him moving to H-back or tight end. On Monday, that question was put to Meyer.
“I don’t doubt Tim can do anything,” he said, according the News-Herald of Willoughby, Ohio. “If you are asking me, that’s all speculation. He’s a good athlete, incredible competitor. To play NFL tight end now. ... There’s only a few of them that can do that.”
That's not exactly a ringing endorsement. But maybe Meyer thinks Tebow's best position is quarterback. Or perhaps Meyer isn't convinced Tebow could handle the day-to-day, play-to-play rigors of being a tight end.
We've written previously that although Tebow certainly looks like a tight end, that doesn't magically make him one.
"It's a mind-set," Hall of Fame tight end and NFL Today analyst Shannon Sharpe said several years ago. "I don't know if [Tebow] has the mind-set for that. I understand that if you play in the National Football League, everybody's tough. But there are levels of toughness. And for a quarterback to think he's going to play something else -- especially one of those positions … now a quarterback can move to wide receiver, but to move to a fullback, H-back or tight end, that's a whole different mentality."
Meyer, who happens to be close to Patriots coach Bill Belichick, says he speaks regularly to Tebow. And, as for what he could say publicly regarding Hernandez -- whom Meyer used to host in his home for daily Bible study sessions -- CBSSSports.com's Gary Parrish has a suggestion:
How about, "It's sad and I'm struggling with it. This is not the young man I thought I knew. My thoughts are with the victim's family."
— Gary Parrish (@GaryParrishCBS) July 1, 2013
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