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Originally Posted by Couch-Potato
I agree. His stock is high enough that someone will have to take a risk to draft him, by that I mean taking him fairly high for his lack of experience.
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Maybe have to take a 'Hardman' sort of flyer on him.
Veach pretty much said "**** the production; gimme some tools" and grabbed Hardman at least a round before predicted. And those tools translated immediately in at least a gadget sort of role.
It'll be interesting to see if the downside of that equation presents itself over the coming years. We still don't know if he can play with the polish to be a true X in this offense and that's why he wasn't widely projected to go as early as he did. Whereas someone like McLauren would've probably made Watkins expendable as early as this season.
Not often that both the upside and downside to a player emerges so quickly. The good news is that demonstrating the upside is the hardest part; the downsides can often be handled through coaching and experience.