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The Louisville quarterback talks about draft day expectations, playing for his brother and what aspect of his game needs improvement. To listen to our interview with Brian Brohm from his Pro Day, click our Player Spotlight Archives.
Draft Bible: Are you getting nervous for the Draft?  Credit: College Press Box Brohm: It is a long ride from the end of the season until draft day. It’s nerve racking and fun, but it’s been quite a while and I can’t wait to see which team I am going to end up with.
Draft Bible: Has any team shown any special interest in you so far?
Brohm: I have had quite a few personal workouts so far with many teams. I have a few coming up in the next few weeks with Atlanta and Baltimore. I just got done with Tampa Bay today. There are obviously a lot of teams with interest so hopefully I can just get up as high as I can.
Draft Bible: Do you pay attention to where people predict you may get picked?
Brohm: I try not to look at it too much, but I have family members and friends looking at it. I will occasionally look and see what people are saying and thinking but really nobody knows. Only the teams know what is going to happen and they really don’t tell anybody, so it’s tough to tell where you are going to go and end up with. All I can do now is do the best I can in my individual workouts. I had a pretty good Pro Day so hopefully the film won’t lie and they will watch that and my stock will rise.
Draft Bible: What should the evaluators be looking for in a quarterback?
Brohm:I think there are so many variables to watching a quarterback. Sometimes the film is the best way to evaluate and see if the quarterback is going through his reads and getting the ball out on time and accurately, being able to move around the pocket with the rush coming at him…but there are always a lot of variables in film like how good are his teammates? How good are his receivers? How good is his line? How was his competition? And what kind of intangibles does he have? So quarterback is a little more difficult for people to evaluate just based on those facts, but I do think that the film is where you will get 80-85 percent of the grade for these NFL Scouts.
Draft Bible: The biggest criticism of you is that Louisville quarterbacks always put up big numbers but are not successful in the NFL, tell us what you think about that?
Brohm: I think you have to look at it on an individual basis. There are a lot of quarterbacks from a bunch of different places that may have had success in college but maybe didn’t work out in the pros. Others may not have been as successful in college and had great careers. I think you just have to look at everybody individually and I think at Louisville, we have stepped up a little bit going from Conference USA to the Big East and really picked up our competition level quite a bit. With Coach Petrino we really ran an NFL Offense.
Draft Bible: Do you think it is an advantage or disadvantage that people knew so much about you heading into this season? We have so much tape of you and people know the good stuff so do they look for the negatives?
Brohm:That does seem to happen sometimes where guys may get over-analyzed or overlooked. People try to pick at little things but I feel like I have played consistently year in and year out no matter how the team is doing, or who the coach was. I feel my game is consistent and getting consistently better year after year. I am pretty happy with how I played throughout my career, even my last year. I wish there were some things I could have done a little better so that we could’ve won a few more ball games, but I am pretty proud of what I did.
Draft Bible: Are there any areas of your game that you would like to work on or improve?
Brohm: I think one thing that I have been working on lately is the fact that I may get a few too many balls batted down. One of the things that I am trying to work on is moving in the pocket. It has always been on the shallow crosses, which is something that our offense ran quite a bit. Just being able to get into the throwing lane…not trying to throw on top of those guys, but trying to throw at a different angle to get the ball out and make sure that no passes get batted down.
Draft Bible: Have you had the chance to speak to any pros and have you gotten any good advice from them?
Brohm: I’ve talked to a few guys, which I have agents in common (with). Chris Redman being one of them from Louisville, Carson Palmer is another. They just said go through this process and have fun and go out there and just throw the ball like you always have and don’t get nervous. You are just throwing the football like you have done it since you were a kid and be yourself. Really, it’s a less stressful process if you realize that it’s not in your hands, you just have to go out there and perform, but you don’t get to pick where you are going, the teams are going to pick you.
Draft Bible: When you compare your stats from last year to this year? Does it bother you that you have had a better year statistically but your stock has dropped?
Brohm: I think a lot of it has to do with the team not being as successful. A lot of other guys also had great years. I am really not sure, I felt like I got better as a player. I felt like I made better reads and was more accurate with the football. I think teams are realizing that. Hopefully teams will keep watching the film and keep evaluating and I will start going back up that board.
Draft Bible: Your brother was your coach, so what was it like being coached by him?
Brohm: It was tough, there are a lot of advantages having him as your coach--he knows your game inside and out, he’s been watching me forever so he knew little things to fix that maybe other quarterback coaches may not have know right away. There was still that sibling rivalry that your big brother was coaching you, but sometimes you just have to let it just roll off your back because when you know it’s your brother yelling at you, you may get right back in his face. But he is also my coach so I just let it roll off. It was tough but definitely beneficial.
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