B.J. Coleman, quarterback for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football team, discusses practice recently with a coach at Scrappy Moore Field.
Staff photo by Jenna Walker/Chattanooga Times Free PressAs he watched last weekend’s NFL draft, B.J. Coleman couldn’t help but think about his own future.
“It was cool to sit there and pay attention and see kind of the teams’ thought processes on quarterbacks,” the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga senior quarterback said Monday.
One thing Coleman noted was how often the draft analysts on television mentioned character when describing some of the 12 QBs selected, such as Florida State’s Christian Ponder and Washington’s Jake Locker.
“I watched how Minnesota took Ponder and how the Titans took Locker,” he said, “and then saw how character plays a huge role in the draft, too, with some of the high-character picks that were taken.”
At 6-foot-3 and 222 pounds, Coleman is roughly the same size as most of the quarterbacks drafted this year. Mocs offensive coordinator Marcus Satterfield said his quarterback has all the tools that NFL teams want.