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2021 NFL Draft QB Jamie Newman a late add to Senior Bowl watchlist

By Cory Kinnan

CHESTNUT HILL, MASSACHUSETTS - SEPTEMBER 28: Jamie Newman #12 of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons warms up before the game against the Boston College Eagles at Alumni Stadium on September 28, 2019 in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)
CHESTNUT HILL, MASSACHUSETTS - SEPTEMBER 28: Jamie Newman #12 of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons warms up before the game against the Boston College Eagles at Alumni Stadium on September 28, 2019 in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images) /
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2021 NFL Draft prospect Jamie Newman is now on the Senior Bowl watchlist

After initially being omitted from the Reese’s Senior Bowl Top 250 watchlist, quarterback Jamie Newman has now been added to the initial watchlist. There may have been some confusion with the end of the Senior Bowl in regard to Newman’s eligibility and the number of years remaining.

While Senior Bowl director Jim Nagy initially thought Newman was a redshirt junior, he was indeed a redshirt senior after graduate transferring to the University of Georgia from Wake Forest this offseason. As the SEC gets ready for football, he is in a current quarterback competition with USC transfer J.T. Daniels (a competition Newman is expected to win).

What Jamie Newman brings to Georgia, the 2021 NFL Draft

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Listed at 6-foot-4 and 230 pounds, Newman possesses a high-level arm in terms of both talent and accuracy. Despite a low completion percentage over the last stretch of the 2019 season, Newman shows a great deal of well-placed balls along the boundary from the 10-t0-30 yard range; these are typically tabbed as NFL-caliber throws.

While he still has some growing and learning to do in terms of his on-field mental processing, he now enters a system favorable to his skillset under air raid guru Todd Monken. He has plus mobility to add to his game as well, making him a prime candidate to jump up the 2021 NFL Draft boards throughout the 2020 season.

Newman can join long list of Senior Bowl quarterbacks

The NFL has seen numerous first round picks and starting quarterbacks come through the Senior Bowl over the past three seasons. In 2018 it was Baker Mayfield and Josh Allen who attended the event, and in 2019 it was Daniel Jones, Drew Lock, and Gardner Minshew. Just this past season, first rounders Justin Herbert and Jordan Love attended the event, while second rounder Jalen Hurts used it to boost his stock as well.

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Newman could join the list of quarterbacks above, all but one of which were taken in the first two rounds of the NFL Draft. Now that he is officially on the watchlist, he looks to take his game to a new level with the Bulldogs and potentially work his name into first round conversations.

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