NFL Tebow: Peter King Says Early 2nd

From today's Monday Morning Quarterback from Peter King:

I think I've said it before about Tim Tebow and I'll say it again: The NFL team that can't find a spot for Tebow to help it win games is close-minded. I don't know if he can be an every-down quarterback, but I do know 28 teams passed on Joe Montana through two rounds because he was too small, 31 teams passed on Tom Brady through five rounds because he was just another guy, and Kurt Warner went undrafted and twice went knocking on doors as an unwanted free-agent even after he won a Super Bowl in the NFL. Every GM didn't go to Harvard. Every personnel czar is not Ron Wolf. What I do know is if I ran a team, and I've got the 40th pick in the draft, and Tebow's there, I pick him without hesitation and pass the card in as, "Tim Tebow, football player, Florida.'' And I pop the champagne corks.

Here is what King leaves hanging: 40th? Fine. But he's hardly being generous or unconventional in his thinking. Even the Tebow Draft Denialists think he'll go in the 2nd round.

But what about 10th? Or 20th? Or 30th? King's "40th" point makes it sound like he doesn't think that Tebow is worth picking earlier than the early 2nd round -- and certainly not the 1st round. Doesn't that undercut his entire preceding argument?

King is one of the folks who will have to reconcile their own personal evaluation -- Tebow as 2nd-rounder -- with the reality that there is a team that will take him in the 1st round, possibly the top half of the 1st round, possibly the Top 10.

I do, however, completely agree with his larger point: "The NFL team that can't find a spot for Tebow to help it win games is close-minded."