He should have been a 1st round pick and has stated he would sit out the year, but a 7th round pick isn't much and if out GM or HC can talk him into playing and he isn't in jail, what a steal! This kid is playing he isn't drafted so he becomes a FA and when the case blows over, he will sign a huge deal. Spend a 7th rd on him!
all i'm going to say is this. NFL teams aren't stupid and they know way more about this than us any team in their right mind would have spent a pick on this kid if they believed he wasn't involved at all in this murder
'innocent until proven guilty' is for the court of law I really dont care if he is guilty or not. i dont want to take the chance he is and have any kind of association with him. and i dont want to be the team that takes a gamble that a guy didnt kill someone. pass.
NFL teams don't know, they can't know at this point...this 'investigation' is days old. THAT'S the problem, at this stage not knowing is just as bad as guilt cause if you're an NFL team you can't use a real asset to draft this guy and risk another Aaron Hernandez blowing up on you. For a seventh-round pick I could see someone taking him, I'm not morally opposed to taking him atm cause if he's gulity he'll just be cut like 98% of 7th rounders anyway (and of course jailed like seemingly 98% of NFL players are these days). And if he's not guilty and doesn't sign, again it's nothing lost...you can always pick up the phone and trade a special teams guy for a seventh-rounder.
i'm sure many teams have done their due diligence looking for a reason to make that pick, but so far it has not happened. I can only believe there is a reason behind it we have not learned yet.
This question has been talked about all weekend in the draft forum, check it out. No reason to take him when there's a chance you are drafting a murderer. Even if there's a 99% chance he's not guilty the PR hit we'll take if he is and we drafted him is not worth it. If he's proven innocent make a run to sign him.
Taking him would be pointless and stupid. What incentive does he have for saying he won't sign if you draft me on day 3? None. So take him at his word. I'd rather get a camp body than no one at all.
His agent has already said he won't sign after the 3rd round. He'll go back into the draft (and take a year off) in 2016.
The way the modern media is hell never shake the scandal. Even if he is innocent it's not worth the hassle. Let the Cowboys take a chance.
Fuck this guy. Aside from the obvious issues, he comes out and says he won't waste his time signing with a team if he's drafted lower than the 3rd. I'd rather draft the green beret guy as a sign of respect then eventually cut Him instead of drafting this asshole.
I'm not but you gotta admit it's not ideal to have a potential PR sideshow in NY of all places, with a first-year GM and coach. The Fattys of the world will line up to drumbeat the Jets to a pulp, especially if something eventually gets found out that's damning.
Hypothetically, say we drafted this kid and he refused to sign. What happens then? We could trade him like the Chargers did with Eli, but suppose we refuse to trade him. Does he just sit in limbo forever?
