STATE COLLEGE, PA. \u2014 Former Penn State quarterback Drew Allar might have become the forgotten man in this year\u2019s draft class after a fractured ankle cut his final college season short.<\/p>\n
But Allar\u2019s road back to full health appears to be going well. He\u2019s been fully cleared for physical activity for seven weeks and said he feels like he \u201ccould have played a game two weeks ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
Allar was able to fully participate in the passing workout at the NFL combine. On Wednesday, he threw to five Penn State teammates in a scripted pro day workout with NFL scouts and position coaches in attendance.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust showing teams what I can do, kind of showcasing a lot of different things you see on Sundays,\u201d Allar said Wednesday. \u201cSo we did a lot of play action, under-center stuff, just trying to layer some throws and drive the ball. Really fun to be back with the guys here, and I\u2019m really proud of everything with the pro day.\u201d<\/p>\n
At 6 feet 5 inches, 228 pounds, Allar looks the part. He showed off his arm strength in his college career and again in Wednesday\u2019s workout, with only one of his deep passes missing its mark. During his scripted pro day workout, Allar was unofficially 49-of-55 passing, with four of the incompletions coming on drops.<\/p>\n
The Athletic\u2019s Dane Brugler projects Allar as a fourth-round pick with a chance to become a third-rounder, depending on how teams view the quarterback class and how they view Allar\u2019s ceiling.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust taking it week by week with these visits and interviews and then the chips can fall where they may,\u201d Allar said. \u201cI don\u2019t know what round or what pick or what team I\u2019m going to. I just hope for the opportunity to go into a good situation and just compete, work to make myself better and hopefully contribute to winning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Allar completed 66.5 percent of his passes while throwing for 3,327 yards and 24 touchdowns in his junior season in 2024. He\u2019s been on the NFL radar for multiple seasons and briefly considered entering last year\u2019s draft before returning to a Penn State team that had College Football Playoff aspirations.<\/p>\n
The team faltered, Allar was injured and coach James Franklin was fired amid an October losing streak.<\/p>\n
Over his sophomore and junior seasons, Allar threw 49 touchdown passes and 10 interceptions. Though he struggled in some of Penn State\u2019s biggest games, he\u2019s hoping to use this pre-draft period to show NFL teams that he\u2019s worth further development and has been working to address some of his inconsistencies.<\/p>\n
Allar said he\u2019s been training with \u201cno limitations\u201d since early February and has not worried about the ankle as he\u2019s returned to full activity. Allar did not share details but said he has some private workouts scheduled and will take \u201ca handful\u201d of formal visits to team facilities over the next several weeks.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s been talking with NFL teams via Zoom meetings this month and returned to State College a week ago to begin preparing for his pro day.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a competitor,\u201d Allar said. \u201cWhenever there\u2019s a chance to throw, I\u2019m gonna throw. I\u2019d do it seven days a week, and I\u2019ve always been wired like that. Just trying to show off my work ethic through this whole rehab process.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, there\u2019s nothing ideal about what happened last year, but I took it as an opportunity to grow and make myself a better player both athletically and mechanically.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATE COLLEGE, PA. \u2014 Former Penn State quarterback Drew Allar might have become the forgotten man in this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[331,7,49,48,6,2743],"class_list":{"0":"post-819853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college-football","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-penn-state-nittany-lions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116252238367144562","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}