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NFL Team Official: Michael Sam Is ‘Not A Really Good Athlete’ (https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=283541)

Michael Sam should have maybe come out AFTER the draft...

I mean the SEC Defensive player of the year is a 6-7 round pick in what other draft?

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Originally Posted by teedubya (Post 10615808)

Michael Sam should have maybe come out AFTER the draft...

I mean the SEC Defensive player of the year is a 6-7 round pick in what other draft?

He runs a 4.9, is a tweener, and isn't athletic enough to make the transition to OLB in a 3-4. He also lacks the explosiveness to be a legitimate option for any team that's running the wide-9. This draft is packed full of great prospects and athletic freaks.

You really expect someone to draft Michael Sam ahead of a lot of other talent who are seen as having vastly superior potential?

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Originally Posted by OldSchool (Post 10615820)

Exactly.

Not big enough for 4-3 DE, not athletic enough for 3-4 OLB.

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Originally Posted by mikey23545 (Post 10615740)

Just because he's gay?

That's reeruned.

Well it is the chiefs. I can see this fan base falling in love with him.

He does have a Purdy mouth.

He'll be a Bronco.

He's ghey.

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Originally Posted by MagicHef (Post 10615499)

I don't really follow college football, but how was he the SEC defensive player of the year if all he can do is "just run up the field?"

Didn't see anyone answer this.
The SEC defensive player of the year isn't NFL material? Does seem a little odd. Found this on the web, for what it's worth:

To get some sense of the range of outcomes for the “productive” players who won their major conference Defensive Player of the Year awards, I looked back at the last decade in the SEC, ACC, Big Ten, Big XII, and Pac-10/12. In the SEC, only one player who won the award was selected outside the top 33 picks in the draft–Chad Lavalais of LSU (who won the award in 2003) in the fifth round (pick #148 overall). When we look at all five conferences, here are the results.

Of the 54 players, almost three-fourths were selected in the first two rounds of the draft (74.1%). Only three players lasted past the sixth round–all undrafted, and all three were middle linebackers/leaders of defenses. One of those was Mark Herzlich, who dealt with cancer and made a valiant comeback after sitting out an entire season, after winning the award in 2008.

He got a lot of "should be" sacks.

Meaning there were times he just had a straight shot to the QB unblocked.

I saw that numerous times last season.

Some really, really good college football players just don't translate physically to the NFL. Michael Sam is one of them.

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Originally Posted by htismaqe (Post 10617228)

Some really, really good college football players just don't translate physically to the NFL. Michael Sam is one of them.

But But glabbert was a stud qb / life loser.

In sprint drills he always comes in a little behind.

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Originally Posted by 3rd&48ers (Post 10615487)

Got to give the home town kid a chance man, quit being a homophobe:shake:

Guess most NFL personnel men agreed with me... ;)

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Originally Posted by listopencil (Post 10615780)

I totally failed Tex's test. I mean I just started laughing my ass off.