PacificNorseWest wrote:This is exactly why I'm bringing this up. Year after year I see teams pass on guys or not draft a guy because of off the field issues, bad combine numbers, or size. And year after year a lot of these guys end up tearing it up in the NFL. The football player type. The easiest (in my opinion) to spot and guys who can help every single team. Mason Foster, Honey badger, Burfict are just a few examples...I understand your stance, but I'm telling you right now that these guys are football players and proven football players at that. I'd take that over some of the bums these GM's take in the 7th round who don't have much chance of making the team anyway. And it's at a position of need. Unless they feel he's too similiar to Mauti...That's the only thing I can think of because Mauti is also slow and oft-injured...Yet they drafted him.
Happens every year. Never pass on a football player. Never.
I know what you mean but you can't draft them all so basically, you're always passing on a "football player" in the sense you mean. It happens every year because it's unavoidable. There are too many available.
Jordan Lynch went undrafted and he's a football player if I've seen one. The guy has tremendous will and genuine athletic ability but nobody wanted to invest a pick in him. He signed with the Bears after the draft ended.
Some of the late round players the Vikings drafted qualify as football players in the sense you mean too. It looks like they drafted some players today based on athletic ability more than performance, which is riskier, but they obviously have their reasons and sometimes those players work out as well.
By the way, I almost mentioned earlier that they may see Skov as similar Mauti or perhaps as unnecessary because of the inside 'backers they already have under contract so perhaps you're on to something there.
