Clifford was the leader after the first round, but did not finish as well as he

started and finished just outside the tie-breaker for the top spot. Throughout

the first round Clifford threw the ball with authority and carried himself with

a lot of confidence. The weight of being the leader looked to weigh heavy on

Clifford in the second round, though, and he was not throwing with the same

confidence as he did early on. Throughout the weekend Clifford showed

why he is a four-star prospect and has seen his offer list take off this spring.

An argument can be made that, from beginning to end, Smith put together the most

consistently impressive performance at the Rivals Quarterback

Challenge Finals. What hurt him, however, was that while he

threw very few poor passes on the day, the 6-foot-3, 188-pound passer did not

make enough perfect passes that hit the pocket and scored additional points.

In fact, two passes that he did hit perfectly in the decision tree were taken

away due to not throwing to the proper target or double-hitching on his passes.

Smith threw the best-looking ball on the day, though, and had a very strong

showing.

We noted after Saturday's event that Wallace had a chance to challenge for the

top spot if he had a consistent day and that is exactly what happened. The

Vanderbilt commit started off the event throwing a beautiful deep ball

in the fade throw and rolled through the first three stations before producing a

ball that was not well thrown. He slowed through the middle of the event before

rebounding toward the end. Outside of the deep ball, Wallace's next best showing

was in the hitch route where he hit the pocket on two out of three throws.

Oden wins the comeback award after rebounding from a poor showing in the

preliminaries on Saturday and putting together a very solid effort on Sunday.

The 6-foot-5, 175-pound Louisville commit is a dual-threat quarterback

whose value is increased when he is able to run around and make plays with his

legs, but he snaps the ball of with good velocity. When he is in-sync -- like he

was Sunday -- Oden can move the ball around the field. His arm motion is long

and that leads to the inconsistency that creeps up, but nothing in his mechanics

is unfixable and Oden appears to have a bright future.

Neville was a popular pick among the analysts heading into the finals to come

out as the overall winner, but he never was able to build momentum. The

6-foot-1, 186-pound Neville's forte is the deep ball and when he did not hit the

pocket in that station during the first throw of the day he seemed to have

trouble bouncing back. One of the best parts about Neville's game is that his

motion is compact and easily repeatable. That produced a very accurate football

and one of the reasons he was considered a top contender, but Sunday was just

not his best performance.

Rawlings' point total was pretty respectable at day's end, but he interspersed

some really good throws with a host of very average passes. It takes a little

while for Rawlings to get the ball out of his hand and he has a lot of moving

parts in his motion. His strength is the short to intermediate routes where he

is able to throttle back and throw a very catchable ball at the proper speed.

Rawlings also shows very good discipline and coachability. When the coach told

them to look off the safety on a seam throw, Rawlings did it to perfection while

others made little effort.

Martell finished on a high note by throwing 65 yards to take the long pass title

in the final throw of the day. Despite being just 5-foot-10 and 190 pounds,

Martell can absolutely rifle the football. That was his undoing on Sunday,

though, as he was overthrowing the football and lost accuracy as a result. His

ball was not spinning as well as it was Saturday either and he just had a rough

all-around day from an accuracy standpoint. Not surprisingly, his strength was

in throwing the deep fade where he got the ball there easily.

There were highs and lows on the day for Johnson, and his final point total

reflected that inconsistency. The 6-foot, 202-pound rising senior needs a lot of

footwork development and he usually ends up with body parts moving in several

different directions, which affects both velocity and accuracy. There were

several stations during the day, however, when he put it all together and in

those instances showed the ability that won him the Dallas stop of the

Quarterback Challenge.

Similar to Johnson, Burmeister tends to have his feet and arm moving in

different directions and that led to an up and down day. There were certain

stations that he excelled in, though, and one was the deep ball. The 6-foot,

211-pounder's deep ball travels well and turns over perfectly. He did not hit

the deep fade target, but was always in the proper vicinity. Due to his

over-the-top throwing motion, Burmeister tends to underthrow the short and

intermediate passes where he is forced to throttle back.

The strength of Clark's game is his big arm, which can be at odds with throwing

an accurate football. At 6-foot-2 and 225 pounds, Clark is a big-framed

quarterback and he has easy power. What he does not have at this stage -- and he

is just a rising junior -- is the ability to put the ball where he wants it with

consistency. He started off throwing the football all over the yard, but to his

credit rebounded toward the end of the first round and carried that over to the

second round, throwing several sets of passes that were on-target.

When Mitchell was on he was right up there with the best throwers on the day.

The issue Sunday was his misses were really bad and he had more

negative point throws than any other passer on the day. The 5-foot-11, 181-pound

rising junior threw the ball with much better velocity on Sunday than he did on

Saturday and he had several impressive throws on the day. The inability to avoid

the big mistake, however, plagued him from start to finish and he was noticeably

frustrated as the day wore on.

Tate apparently injured a finger on his throwing hand sometime before Sunday's

event and the effect on his performance was noticeable. He could not put any velocity on the

football opted out of the long toss throw at the end. His accuracy was also

affected, though he was still able to spin the ball well as he showed during

Saturday's preliminaries. The Arizona commit is listed as an athlete

and has the ability to play other positions, but whether he can succeed as a

college quarterback was a question we were not able to answer based solely on

Sunday's performance.