Jacob
Eason.
Jacob
Eason.
Washington· 6'6"· 231 lb· 4.89s 40
"The 2015 Gatorade National Player of the Year who lost his Georgia job to Jake Fromm, transferred home for one 3,132-yard season, and carried the strongest arm and the stiffest feet in the class."Pre-draft read
Eason is a 6-6 pocket passer with one of the strongest arms in his class. He can drive an out to the far hash from the opposite side of the field without resetting his feet, and his deep ball travels on a rope, which makes play-action shots and back-shoulder throws his most comfortable plays.
He is a classic tall, still quarterback. He works from the pocket, throws with a compact delivery and shows anticipation on timing routes when the picture is clean. When it is not, the game gets hard: he takes sacks instead of escaping, drops his eyes under interior pressure and forces throws into windows only his arm believes in. He is a non-factor as a runner. The signature is arm talent without the processing or mobility to protect it.
A vertical play-action offense that protects the quarterback, throws on rhythm from under center and uses deep shots off run action.
Year 1 developmental third quarterback and practice arm, with a ceiling as a starter in a run-heavy, protection-first offense that limits how often he must improvise.
A spread offense built on movement, RPOs and quarterback runs, or any scheme behind a leaky offensive line.
NFL Draft Analysis: Jacob Eason
Quarterback-coach film study of the arm talent alongside the pocket and processing concerns.
Washington QB Jacob Eason 2019 Highlights
Full cutup of his only season as a Husky, the body of work the evaluation rested on.
Jacob Eason (Washington QB) vs Utah (2019)
Single-game all-22 against a top defense, where the pressure issues showed up clearly.
Eason was a five-star before he was a prospect, the 2015 Gatorade National Player of the Year out of Lake Stevens, Washington, who went to Georgia and started as a true freshman. A knee injury in the 2017 opener opened the door for Jake Fromm, Fromm never gave it back, and Eason threw seven passes that season before transferring home to Washington and sitting out 2018.
His one year as a Husky was productive. He started all thirteen games in 2019 and completed 260 of 405 throws for 3,132 yards with 23 touchdowns and eight interceptions, the fourth-most passing yards and sixth-most touchdowns in a season in school history. Across three college seasons he appeared in 32 games with 26 starts, completing 59.8 percent for 5,562 yards, 39 touchdowns and sixteen interceptions.
The board was split between the tools and everything else. He tied for the tallest quarterback at the Combine and tested near the bottom athletically, running 4.89 with a 27.5-inch vertical, and evaluators worried about pocket poise, ball placement under pressure and a 7-6 team record in his only full season. Some had a first-round grade on the arm; Sporting News put him on its bust list. He lasted until Indianapolis at 122.
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Elite arm strength
Drives the ball to every area of the field and can make the deep out throw from the opposite hash without stepping into it.
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Prototype size
At 6-6 and 231 pounds he sees over the interior and delivers cleanly above the rush in a crowded pocket.
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Play-action production
Excellent throwing on rhythm off boot and deep shots, the concepts that produced most of his 23 touchdowns.
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Proven at two programs
Started as a true freshman in the SEC and then as a transfer in the Pac-12, with 26 career starts.
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Record-setting single season
Fourth-most passing yards and sixth-most touchdowns in a season in Washington history in his only year there.
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Poor pocket movement
Takes sacks rather than sliding or escaping, with no ability to extend plays when the first read is gone.
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Processing under pressure
Drops his eyes when the interior collapses and forces throws into coverage he believes his arm can beat.
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Bottom-tier athleticism
A 4.89 forty and 27.5-inch vertical put him at the very bottom of the quarterback group at the Combine.
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Thin body of work
Only one full season as a college starter after losing his Georgia job and sitting out a transfer year.
Relative Athletic Score (Kent Lee Platte) benchmarks combine/pro-day numbers against every measured prospect at the position since 1987. 10.00 is elite; 5.00 is average.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 4.89sp50
- Vertical
- 27.5inp50
- Broad jump
- 110inp50
- Three-cone
- 7.50sp50
- Shuttle
- 4.75sp50
- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Georgia | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | Georgia | 3 | 4 | 7 | 28 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | Washington | 13 | 260 | 405 | 3132 | 23 | 8 |
| Career | — | 32 | 468 | 782 | 5562 | 39 | 16 |
Career totals of 32 games and 26 starts with 468-of-782 for 5,562 yards, 39 touchdowns and sixteen interceptions come from his NFL club bio; the 2017 and 2019 lines come from published season tables. His 2016 true-freshman season at Georgia is not broken out consistently across sources and the games played do not reconcile cleanly against the career figure, so that row is left empty rather than derived by subtraction. He redshirted at Washington in 2018 after transferring.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
A tall developmental arm who gets a handful of chances as a backup and never holds a starting job.
The ceiling: a big, immobile arm talent who wins from a clean pocket in a vertical play-action offense.
A tools-first quarterback whose processing under pressure ends his career before he ever establishes himself.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
He barely played. Eason spent his rookie year in 2020 as the third quarterback behind Philip Rivers and Jacoby Brissett without taking a snap, then appeared in one game in 2021 after Carson Wentz's injury scare, going 2 of 5 for 25 yards with an interception. Indianapolis waived him that October and Seattle claimed him, and he spent the rest of the season on the Seahawks' roster without appearing.
Carolina signed him in 2022, where he played one game, completing three of five for 59 yards with another interception, and he returned to Indianapolis on the practice squad in 2023, dressing for the season finale without throwing a pass. His entire NFL career amounts to two games, five completions on ten attempts for 84 yards, zero touchdowns and two interceptions. In hindsight the bust warnings were right, and the pick itself was defensible: a fourth-round shot at a quarterback with that arm is a reasonable lottery ticket, and the traits never survived contact with NFL pressure.