Quote:The big difference is passion, and desire to play at the next level. Fowler is 100% all about it. Harvey was never excited at any point. Teams got infatuated with his measureables and that is all it took. He got paid and that was that.

I agree that they difference is passion...Fowler seems to have a relentless motor and never seems to give up on the play from the little I have seen him play...the thing that scares me away from him is I never remember hearing or seeing him be truly dominate at the college level.  You never really heard, or at least I didn't and I hang out with a lot of Florida fans, of him just taking over a game at DE position.

 

According to CFBstats he had 17 QB hurries...a far cry from the 37 another poster stated. Of his 8.5 sacks...3 of them came against East Carolina in the Birmingham bowl.  One could argue I guess that he was dominating lesser talent but I am not sure since he was held sackless against other teams like Eastern Michigan, Eastern Kentucky, Vanderbilt, and only had one sack and 6 tackles against Kentucky in a game that had 3 OTs. 

 

I know I am only focusing on the sacks there but sacks...but his tackle total is not great either...he had 60 but 11 of them  came in the game against LSU...he had a lot of games at 3 or 4 tackels and no sacks.

 

Now I understand that a lot of these teams may have game planned away from Fowler or used different blocking schemes to help limit his impact (even though I don't really remember people talking this up during the year like you would hear about guys like Clowney)...and I also know that stats at face value don't tell the whole story...but from what they do say I think it is perfectly OK to be scared off or question Fowler at 3 with legitimate concerns.

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