Quote:Unless team doctors specifically say he's not going to play again, I wouldn't hesitate to draft him in the fourth round. He was my favorite prospect in the entire draft and sometimes you have to gamble, especially on a player of his caliber.

4th round, 5th round...at that point it's really semantics. I think the point is moreso that no one has any clue how nerve recoveries will go, The only constant is that they take a long, long time to heal (more of a year to year timeframe than month to month) and you don't know how well they will recover until the very end of that process.

 

It's extremely unlikely that in the one month since the combine that any teams will have gone from comparing him to Lattimore to being comfortable taking a late 1st flier, as has been suggested. 

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