Quote:Earl Thomas left as a soph too, even tho he did start his freshman year, but he had a simlar year as Hooker as a redshirt soph, making explosive plays and range, I would gladly have taken him at 4. Heck we could have had him at 10, but we took Alualu, if a player is projected to be a great player, who cares where you pick them at.

I agree that if they're projected to be a great player you take him where you can. But now that hooker is going to miss the combine and his pro day bc of his shoulder and hernia surgeries there is going to be a lot of unknowns with him. So scouts are only going to have tape from one season to try and project where he ranks in this class. I still think he's a first rounder but 4 is a little rich. Also Earl's game was more well rounded than hooker's seems to be.

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