Jake Locker previews Wednesday’s pro day

By Brady Henderson

Former Husky quarterback Jake Locker joined Brock & Salk on Tuesday to preview his pro day workout for NFL teams on Wednesday. He also discussed his experience throughout the draft process.

Here are some notes and quotes:

• Locker said he likes being able to dictate his pro day workout as opposed to being told what to do at the combine. “You get a chance to kind of determine which kind of routes you’re going to throw and who you’re throwing them to,” he said.

• Huskies’ offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Doug Nussmeier will run the workout. Locker will throw to fullbacks Austin Sylvester and Dorson Boyce and wide receiver D’Andre Goodwin, who all completed their senior seasons at Washington in 2010. Boyce will function more as a tight end.
• Consistency in his dropback and throwing motion, which Locker has been working on with former NFL quarterback Ken O’Brien, will be the most noticeable improvement to his game, he said.

• Re-running his 40-yard dash was a consideration but he’s satisfied with the 4.59 he ran at the combine, though he said that was the slowest of all the times he ran. “I don’t think that’s something I need to prove to people,” he said of his speed. “You can watch the game tape and you can tell that I’ve had success running. … I think there’s a lot of guys that can run a fast 40 but you don’t see that when they get on the field. I didn’t feel the need to run again just because of the time that I did put up and from what you can see on film.”

• The toughest question he’s been asked by an NFL team? “I was asked if I had a 16-year-old daughter whether I’d let her be on birth control or not. That one kind of threw me for a loop. It caught me off guard. I didn’t know what to say at first,” Locker said. He answered that he wouldn’t.
• He said he isn’t concerned about his score of 20 on the Wonderlic test — the lowest among the top quarterback prospects in this year’s draft — because it isn’t indicative of his football IQ. “I feel 20 is a good score; it’s not great. But of those questions, there’s nothing to do with football on there. It’s kind of like an SAT,” he said. “I respond really well to understanding offenses, understanding plays and what I’m going to be asked to do on the field. I believe that it’s not a terrible score. … I’m wired a little differently. The classroom stuff didn’t come as naturally to me as the athletic stuff did and I think that’s a result of that.”

You can listen to the entire conversation with Jake Locker here.

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