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New Orleans Saints reserve quarterback Taysom Hill is not actually throwing the football for the Saints, but he is playing, serving special teams and utility roles for the NFC's No. 1 seed.
Former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow digs the way New Orleans has been using Hill and said that that was the same vision Saints head coach Sean Payton had for him back in 2013, according to Christopher Dabe of The New Orleans Times-Picayune:
“He did a good job making it clear what he thought,” Tebow said. “It just wasn’t necessarily in my heart at the time. It was cool. It wasn’t like I was totally against it. Love coach Payton. He’s one of the best coaches out there. For me, I still wanted to pursue being a quarterback and then baseball. Sometimes it’s not that you dislike something. It’s that you have something even more in your heart.”
Tebow also liked what he saw from Hill in college, saying that if he played for a bigger school, he may have been more highly sought after:
“If he was on a better team — I’m not trying to knock his college team — if he was on a better team, I think he would have had a chance to be special,” Tebow said. “You put him on the field with good teams and see what he could do, I think he could have done really well. I liked watching him a lot.”
The former signal-caller turned baseball hitter also loves the way NFL offenses have evolved:
“Now you look at it and every team almost runs the spread,” Tebow said. “And the best teams. Look at Kansas City. It’s cool to see how they’re just breaking molds and trends and so many of the eyes that didn’t want to change, they’re adapting.”
Tebow is currently in the New York Mets' minor-league system.
