That's the thing, programs don't care about stats, they go by ability shown. I'll bet you half of all the top WRs in college football played option QB in HS, at least part time, but programs recruit them heavily to be WRs. Or CBs.
And that's how you get elite talents at small schools, bypassing playing CB at Georgia and instead sticking at RB to play at Wake Forest. Marshall Faulk could have played CB at Miami, but went to San Diego State to stay at RB. All the tons of guys who transfer to smaller schools got that promise from the helmet schools to start out at their preferred position, but when it inevitably doesn't work out, they go to Louisiana Polytechnic Academy instead, just to remain a QB.
So yeah, the rocket-arm kid isn't going to have good passing stats, but they'll watch film of him and see he's running the single-wing, but he throws it on a line 65 yards. Good enough to scout further.
