Michael Vick is entering free agency and has made it clear that he intends on being a starting quarterback not a backup. Though he is often criticized for his style of play and injury prone nature, one NFL exec thinks he’ll be the best available free agent.
One NFL personnel executive said teams undoubtedly will rate Vick the best of a middling quarterback free-agent market — one likely to include Matt Schaub, Matt Cassel and Mark Sanchez — and the exec said he would rate him as a mid-tier starting quarterback, somewhere between 13 and 16. In a league with 32 teams, that’s better than half.
“There are too many teams that are in need of an upgrade for him not to be looked at as a starter,” the personnel executive said. “I could see a team signing him, and developing a young guy. Vick could be a very good bridge starter for two to three years.”
And that, despite his advancing age, is a remarkable improvement from where Vick was the last time he hit free agency.
