NFL Network did an piece on Bush and interviewed him. He is ready to go, and he looks good for a guy who had two surgeries. Thomas Jones is going to be 31-32 at the end of the contract and this kid might be the answer to him after it. He is the ultimate compliment to Leon Washington in the running game. Why not take the 3 pick and use it on him thinking ahead. The Jets have 21 of 22 starters returning, and Askew has been replaced by Barnes. This is a depth draft. Taking in players that are ready to be great contributors a year from now is the name of the game. Bush will be ready to contribute in 08 big time, and why not be the team to get a prospect more powerful and faster than Mike Jacobs for the future?
I know a lot of people here don't want him at any pick. I would draft him in a minute. If you ever saw him play you know how good he was. The problem is somebody will take him much higher then he is worth. It won't be us. I see him as a 4th which we don't have and only because of his injury. He will probably go to somebody in the 3rd. Somebody who has the extra picks like NE or Atlanta.
A running back's legs are his bread and butter. Two surgeries makes me really nervous. I didn't want McGahee either and his path to recovery was a lot cleaner and more straightforward than Bush.
McGahee had a much much more serious injury. He pretty much tore every tendon in his knee. Bush only had a broken leg which is much easier to fix.
A leg is a leg. Runningbacks only have two of them and they need them both. When one of them has been damaged badly enough to require multiple surgeries they come off of my list. Bush was jogging and doing other calisthenics for the camera yesterday to prove he was almost recovered. He would never have done that five weeks after having a second surgery on the leg if the expectation was not that he was in real danger of going undrafted. http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070320/SPORTS02/70320087/1002/SPORTS His original break is not healing properly so they replaced the rod to see if that would speed up the process.
Well, that would be ok too if we could sign him as an UFA. They said McGahee would never recover and look at what he has done. Wasn't he taken in the first round too? Talk about a gamble. Right now the same thing is going on with Peterson. They say it needs collar bone surgery and will miss all of training camp. Of course it's not a leg and nowhere near as serious but it may make him fall out of the top 10. The more I think about it the more I think that Peterson may be just as big a risk as Bush is. He has broken his collar bone twice and they say he needs surgery. Knowing the vicious hits RBs take on their shoulders you have to wonder if that may not be a long term problem for him. Watch him slip a lot farther then predicted.
Peterson on the 10 is a far greater risk than Bush in the 5th round. Of course Peterson would be a good risk later down in the draft. At what point he's a very good risk I don't know. Runningbacks are the pitchers of football. What they're there for is to break your heart.
Way too much risk here to use a day 1 pick on Bush. If he's available on Sunday though, I would trade up for him.
