From the Examiner...

"I don't know Jason Whitlock, the wildly opinionated columnist for the Kansas City Star and Fox Sports, but I thought of him immediately when the 49ers drafted quarterback Nate Davis yesterday. Whitlock made a mid-season critique of Davis that caused a swirl of controversy in the football world.

You'd never know it from his rotund physique, but Whitlock was a lineman on the Ball State football team in his trimmer collegiate days. As such, he paid particularly close attention to Davis' career at his alma mater. After the Oklahoma-Texas Tech game this year, matching quarterbacks Sam Bradford and Graham Harrell, Whitlock wrote, "I live in Big 12 country. I follow the league and have watched them all play regularly. Michael Crabtree is the best football player in the Big 12, but not one of the Big 12's quarterbacks is in the same physical ballpark as Nate Davis. It's not close. They can't match his arm, instincts, touch, accuracy, presence, ability to move in the pocket, out of the pocket or make plays when things break down."

In a savage criticism of ESPN, which did not include Davis in its rundown of the nation's top quarterbacks, Whitlock went on, "A powerful, unbiased, independent journalist would've traveled to Ball State during the summer and talked with the man who recruited Tom Brady to Michigan (Ball State coach Brady Hoke) and the man who coached Brady at Michigan (Ball State offensive coordinator Stan Parrish). They'll tell you that Nate Davis has the tools to be better than Tom Brady -- and they absolutely adore Brady. If you watch Davis play, he looks like the second coming of Brett Favre."