It seems one Blaine Gabbert from MU's football program can play some pretty good football, sure, but what really has the NFL scouts and teams excited are....his brains?
Wha??
Yes indeed, it seems Mr. Gabbert has a near-photographic memory and can use that information in his head quickly and easily, again and again:
Quarterback dazzling NFL with rare attribute
Blaine Gabbert rattled through math problems so easily as a child, remembering everything from multiplication tables to batting averages, that his mother, Bev, began to imagine something magnificent going on in her oldest son’s head.
“He’s almost got a photographic memory,” she says over the phone from the family house just outside St. Louis.
This is the attribute that might just take Gabbert far in his pursuit to be a starting quarterback in the NFL. He already has those other things the NFL desires: standing 6-foot-5 with the ability to fling the ball three-quarters of the field in the air. But it is his mind that might push him farther, for in the complex world of football offenses little matters more than memory.
“Once you say it to him it is set in stone,” says David Yost, University of Missouri offensive coordinator and quarterback coach. “His ability to process the information is amazing. You give it to him, he retains it.”Imagine that.
Brains helping in a football game.
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