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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
Texas players rarely translate to the NFL.
For every Jamaal Charles, there's a Mike Williams, Limas Sweed, Derrick Johnson, Quintin Jammer, Michael Huff, so on and so forth.
Everyone here had the fear that Orapko would follow in their footsteps. Season One for him was very good but before we anoint him has a great NFL player, let's give him a few years.
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At the time, I posted every player drafted out of Texas over the last four or five years and it completely contradicts the point you are trying to make. It may have been the case in years previous to that, but Texas has turned out some pretty good NFL players.
I also tried to argue the point that just because a "Kyle Boller" flops, doesn't mean you pass on a "Aaron Rodgers".
You have to look at the indicators for the player to succeed.
production
measurables
work ethic
technique
ability to dominate
big games
maturity
Orakpo arguably had all of these indicators working in his favor.
Over time, Orakpo...otherwise known as toilet brush, will end up as the best pick that we could have made out of that class.
Oh well, hopefully a lesson was learned.