The Ravens sent quarterbacks coach Craig Ver Steeg to the Pro Day workout for the All-Big Ten Conference quarterback and also observed him at the Senior Bowl.

"It's a guy that plays well on tape, first of all," Ravens director of player personnel Eric DeCosta said. "Our coaches and scouts have looked at these guys. Intelligence is important at that position and the accuracy is important. Experience, production, character, a whole bunch of different things just like with every other position.

"Every position has what we call position-specific and critical factors. Again, we've ranked all these quarterbacks in value. Craig Ver Steeg has done a great job looking at all of these guys. We've got a good quarterback board, and if there's a good player at some point in the draft available, we could turn the card in."

 

Other second-tier or third-tier quarterbacks who could be of interest to the Ravens are Delaware quarterback Pat Devlin, Alabama quarterback Greg McElroy, Idaho quarterback Nathan Enderle, North Carolina quarterback T.J. Yates, Minnesota quarterback Adam Weber, Virginia Tech quarterback Tyrod Taylor, California (Pa.) quarterback Josh Portis, a former University of Maryland player, and Texas A&M quarterback Jerod Johnson.

 

Taylor, Portis and Johnson are athletic enough to run the Wildcat formation or even offer some positional flexibility as wide receivers.

McElroy broke his hand at the Senior Bowl, but is healthy now. He won a national championship with the Crimson Tide as a junior, completing 70 percent of his throws as a senior.

"Stanzi is a smart, heady quarterback who makes good decisions and is a leader, but has struggled to be a consistent accurate guy," said Russ Lande, the Sporting News' draft analyst who used to scout for the Cleveland Browns and the St. Louis Rams.

 

"McElroy is intriguing. He has everything above the shoulders. Mechanically, he's not quite there and he's not a very good athlete with a good arm.

 

"Guys have developed arm strength. He could be like Gary Kubiak and stick around for 10 years as a backup. McElroy would be a great guy for Flacco to be around and wouldn't be a threat to him."

Johnson was benched as a senior and ruined his draft stock.

"I would have bet he was going to be a second-round pick or a third-round pick after his junior year," Lande said. "He basically pissed down his leg."

Devlin played at Delaware, Flacco's alma mater.

"Devlin has got a chance," Lande said. "I'm not super-high on him."

Weber has visited the Vikings. He passed for 10,917 yards, but struggled with his accuracy.

Yates was an ultra-productive four-year starter for the Tar Heels with 58 career touchdowns who has been tutored by former New England Patriots quarterbacks coach Larry Kennan.

"Yates is a very talented kid, athletic with a big arm," Lande said. "He can make all the throws. He's not consistent. You watch him in games sometimes and he's pretty. There are games where he's as athletic as you want to see."

In the history of the franchise, the Ravens have drafted the following quarterbacks: seventh-rounder Jon Stark (1996, Trinity), seventh-rounder Wally Richardson (1997, Penn State), third-rounder Chris Redman (2000, Louisville), seventh-rounder Wes Pate (2002, Louisville), first-rounder Kyle Boller (2003, Cal-Berkeley), sixth-rounder Josh Harris (2004, Bowling Green), sixth-rounder Derek Anderson (2005, Oregon State), fifth-rounder Troy Smith (2007, Ohio State) and Flacco in the first round (2008, Delaware).

"I don't know how many years we've drafted quarterbacks, but I think you can never have enough good quarterbacks on the team," DeCosta said. "Obviously if there's a good player at the quarterback position available at some point in the draft, we'll turn it in. It's just based on how they stack up against the other players in the league."