Tim Tebow is one of the best college football players of all time. There’s not a ton of debate in that. There is, however, a lot of debate on whether he is going to project as a pro quarterback. I linked this yesterday in Lost Time, but Matt Hinton had a pretty good rebuttal to Mel Kiper’s assertion that Tim Tebow isn’t going to be a quarterback in the NFL.

I’m still sort of split on this: The type of player and skill set he has leads me to believe he will flip to tight end, and just be a quarterback on some sets with a team, like he did when Chris Leak was the starter for Florida in 2006. Or he could go out and be Paul Bunyan in the NFL and dominate at the quarterback position. I’m not a very decisive person.

But anyways, Tebow was recently on Mel Kiper’s radio show, and he went at the Man With Perfect Hair:

“You tell me this,” Tebow said to Kiper during the radio exchange. “What do you think I need to do to be an NFL quarterback? You tell me that.”

Unfortunately, Kiper didn’t give Tebow a direct answer to his direct question.

“You’re just too good with the ball in your hands not to think, Could he be Frank Wycheck? Could he be Chris Cooley? That’s why,” Kiper said. “You’re too good, doing what you do, Tim, running with the football.”

[...]To which Tebow replied, “The quarterback has the ball in his hands every play.”

Oh snap, son. I wish it was like, four years from now, so we could see who was really right. Anyone have a time machine I can borrow?

Via Brinson at FanHouse, who yeah, blogs here too. It’s like a blogger circle of love, or something.