Even the coaches Drew Allar had at Penn State know they didn\u2019t exactly help him to be a pro. Now he\u2019s figuring it out on his own. Or at least, he\u2019s figuring out with professional coaching that much work takes place on your own. Heading into his first training camp, he already has a busy itinerary\u2014and the right mindset.<\/p>\n
A third-round pick, Drew Allar was once considered a first-round quarterback prospect. Inconsistent play and an injury damaged his draft stock before the Steelers selected him with the 76th overall pick. Now working under HC Mike McCarthy, QB coach Tom Arth, and with QB Aaron Rodgers, he is learning how to be a professional.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like I\u2019ve taken the right step. Now I\u2019ve just got to keep continuing to work on it in my free time\u201d, Allar said, via the Steelers\u2019 website<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t just watch myself. I watch all the reps from the quarterbacks because there\u2019s always something you can learn from everybody\u201d.<\/p>\n He added in response to another question, \u201cYou really have to take time out of your day when you\u2019re not in the facility to really prepare yourself\u201d.<\/p>\n Drew Allar has the most talent of a Steelers quarterback draft pick in years. But it\u2019s up to not just the coaching staff, but himself to bring his talent to the surface. He has the size that you want and the arm strength. Right now, the Steelers are working on resetting his footwork, among other things. And he has help he\u2019ll be working with in the form of John Beck and 3DQB<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel like it\u2019s gonna go really well\u201d, Allar said of his plans ahead of training camp and integrating his coaching with the Steelers with his private coaching. \u201cI just need to get all the information I can from the coaches here and what they want me to keep working on, what throws, what drills, so then I can take that to John and all the trainers I\u2019m with, and then also when I can work out on my own when I\u2019m not with them\u201d.<\/p>\n Beck has previously worked with, among others, Cowboys QB Dak Prescott, so there is some familiarity with what Steelers HC Mike McCarthy wants. Allar has been working with him for over a year, as he told reporters, but now he has a professional plan to work with.<\/p>\n Of course, this season will be about development for Drew Allar, who is likely to spend the year as the third quarterback. Barring the unlikely event that the Steelers carry four quarterbacks, he should at least dress for games. But he would only serve as the emergency quarterback, who can only enter a game if the first two quarterbacks are injured.<\/p>\n The Steelers, though, drafted him thinking that he has the potential to be a starter. They need Allar to develop, and that\u2019s largely on him. The coaching staff is giving him the structure, but he seems prepared to apply the necessary mindset and work ethic to get the most out of his abilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even the coaches Drew Allar had at Penn State know they didn\u2019t exactly help him to be a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":858216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[39],"tags":[70473,1232,1545,62,939,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-858215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-drew-allar","tag-nfl","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-sports","tag-trending","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116727637133890103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}