Tim Tebow's love for football has been put to the test throughout his career. In retrospect, maybe Tebow should have stuck to baseball, a sport he once played and drew the Los Angeles Angels' attention during his junior year of high school.
Tebow drew interest from a former Angels' scout, Tom Kotchman, who is now with the Boston Red Sox organization. Tebow never handed in his information card for the draft and that was the end of the Angels' interest in Tebow. Imagine a team with Mike Trout, Mark Trumbo and Tebow? There's a lot of muscle to flex in that bunch.
Tebow has a football build, but he doesn't look like a quarterback, so maybe he made the wrong decision choosing football over baseball?
The numbers don't lie, he was talented and during his junior year, Tebow hit high school baseball hard batting .494 with four home runs. However, after Kotchman and the Angels were shutdown the first time, Tebow never gave them a chance to scout him senior year as the now Patriots third-string quarterback got a head start on his football career, enrolling with Florida in order to speed up his football career.
What did Kotchman see? Apparently something football scouts don't see in Tebow now.
"He stood out. Right when you walked up to the field, he passed the body test. He was bigger and stronger than everybody. This guy is 6-foot-4, 200 pounds. ... You thought, if this guy dedicated everything to baseball like he did to football how good could he be?"
Tebow has been continuously been criticized for not being athletic enough or having the appropriate strength in his arm to make it as quarterback in the NFL. While analysts have suggested changing his position to a fullback or tight end, Tebow has ignored this critics. The Patriots will give Tebow a chance after he signed a two-year contract with no guaranteed money.
