Pro Football Talk is reporting that the Packers have worked out Duke University's Greg Paulus. What may be peculiar to many is that he is known as the Blue Devils former point guard whose role basically disappeared during his senior season. What many people do not know, however, was that in high school he was just as good a quarterback as he was a point guard. He was offered scholarships to Notre Dame and the University of Miami to play quarterback, but he decided playing point guard at Duke was what he wanted to do. Now that his basketball career has clearly derailed, he is apparently looking for a shot to get back into football, and the Packers are the team that is giving him a shot. I would imagine that his skills as a quarterback are still there, but his footwork at the position has probably deteriorated and will need some work. In high school he was the 2004 Gatorade National Football Player of the Year and set the New York state record in passing yards with 11,763. He also holds five other state records at QB, and led the Christian Brothers Academy of Syracuse to a 42-3 record while throwing 152 TD passes.This was quite interesting to me, first of all as both a Duke and Green Bay Packers fan, but also because a friend that I've been doing the ESPN work with saw him play quarterback in high school (their high schools were rivals), and he said he was an absolutely amazing QB. We had a long conversation about his decision to play basketball and if that was the right one, but Paulus is hoping to change his fortunes and get a shot in the NFL.
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