How fast can a QB throw the ball?

Q: How fast can an NFL QB throw a ball?

Quarterbacks dont get much over 60 mph, no matter whos throwing. It should be noted that Thomass record is only for players who threw for velocity.

It is bull shit. I played college football with a guy that was drafted because of his arm and his throws didnt put anyone ln their ass like thag.

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How fast can an NFL QB throw a ball?
How fast can Tom Brady throw a football?
How fast can Aaron Rodgers throw a baseball?
How fast can John Elway throw a football?

The fastest And NFL qb has been clocked at a combine was 60mph and that Logan Thomas, a 6’6 250lb manimal. In comparison, Pat Mahomes is regarded to have one of the biggest arms in the NFL, topped off at 55mph at the combine.

How fast can Aaron Rodgers throw? (USA TODAY Sports Images)

Virginia Tech quarterback Logan Thomas set a throwing velocity record at the NFL combine last week. According to information from the scouting service Ourlads.com, Thomas threw a football faster than any potential draftee in the past seven years.

Did the speed measure up to the flamethrowers in baseball? How close was he to triple digits? What’s the blistering pace achieved by football’s version of Nolan Ryan?

Sixty miles per hour. Sixty, as in slower than a knuckleball. Sixty, like “pull over grandma, you’re driving too slow on the highway.” Six-tee — a speed that wouldn’t be enough to crack the rotation at the Little League World Series.

Logan Thomas throwing slower than a high-school baseball pitcher. (USA TODAY Sports Images)

60 mph is the fastest throw at the combine in seven years? That seems ridiculously low, right? One of those Aaron Rodgers’ heaters at the goal line — you know, the toss that looks like it’d break all 10 of your fingers if you tried to catch it — looks a lot faster than 60 mph. So what gives?

This isn’t an apples to apples situation, of course. Heck, it’s not even apples to oranges. A football is oblong, 11 inches from tip-to-tip and weighs about one pound. A baseball is a baseball. You can throw a pebble faster than you can throw a boulder. It’s all about relativity too. A car speeding by at 65 mph is a lot different than a tennis ball doing the same.

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Here we are though. Quarterbacks don’t get much over 60 mph, no matter who’s throwing. It should be noted that Thomas’s record is only for players who threw for velocity. Many top prospects haven’t done that at the combine, a list that includes Andrew Luck, Sam Bradford, Robert Griffin III, Tim Tebow, Matthew Stafford and Matt Ryan. Even so, Logan Thomas threw faster than Colin Kaepernick (59 mph), Nick Foles (57) and Russell Wilson (55).

Then again Tyler Bray (59), Stephen Morris (59), Drew Willy (58), Mike Reilly (58) and Paul Smith (57) were all pretty fast too. Brandon Weeden (59) and Kirk Cousins (59) were ahead of Foles and Wilson in the 2012 combine. And if throwing hard equated to on-field prowess, Jeff George would have been a first-ballot Hall of Famer.

Still, it’s a pretty cool stat.

How fast can an NFL QB throw a ball?

Quarterbacks don't get much over 60 mph, no matter who's throwing. It should be noted that Thomas's record is only for players who threw for velocity.

How fast can Tom Brady throw a football?

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady posts his pass velocity on Instagram. New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady posts his pass velocity on Instagram hitting 61 mph.

How fast can Aaron Rodgers throw a baseball?

Using those equations you find that the ball travels at 33.5 mph in the x-direction (downfield) and 45.7 mph in the y-direction (vertically). This means that Rodgers throws the ball at 57 miles per hour. I think baseball tends to skew people's idea of how fast a thrown football is.

How fast can John Elway throw a football?

Elway in his prime could throw a football just over 80 m.p.h. at will and Jay Cutler can do the same. The largest differential or gap here is in the fundamental passing technique. Elway had one of the fastest releases, with exceptions to the likes of Dan Marino, Jim Kelly, and Brett Favre.