The question of Nkemdiche

[top dawg]

I have seen several stories about how Robert Nkemdiche will probably fall. Many suspect that if the guy didn't have concerns regarding his fall off a balcony,  subsequent pot charge, and then presumably lying about it, including implying that his teammate was the real culprit, that Nkemdiche would have possibly gone in the top half if the first. Before last season, Nkemdiche was nearing a consensus top five draft pick.

Character concerns aside, as well as the predictable but useless comparisons to Greg Hardy, Nkemdiche's main issue just may be perceptions about his motor and football acumen. John Owning of Football Insiders wrote a pretty sobering (if not scathing) assessment of the guy.

"Sometimes, the tape doesn’t match the production, but in this case, it does. Nkemdiche is routinely handled by down blocks and he struggles mightily with hand placement and pad level. He doesn’t win consistently one-on-one and he doesn’t have a great motor. All of which should disqualify him from being a first-round pick, let alone a top-five pick."

http://www.footballinsiders.com/robert-nkemdiche-is-the-drafts-biggest-faller/

Now I am not necessarily a college football guy, and I put more energy into the offensive side of the ball when studying collegians, so for those that know, does Nkemdiche really have the type of talent that would justify passing over a Kevin Dodd, Johnathan Bullard, Shaq Lawson or Eli Apple (for example)? Let's say the aforementioned are gone, is Nkemdiche (or a guy like Noah Spence) worth the trouble? Is he even on our board?

[johnnydefence]

We can do this without making a deal with the devil. 

[sharkkiller]

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Now I am not necessarily a college football guy, and I put more energy into the offensive side of the ball when studying collegians, so for those that know, does Nkemdiche really have the type of talent that would justify passing over a Kevin Dodd, Johnathan Bullard, Shaq Lawson or Eli Apple (for example)? Let's say the aforementioned are gone, is Nkemdiche (or a guy like Noah Spence) worth the trouble? Is he even on our board?

Not in my opinion. I would take pretty much any of them before Nkemdiche.

[MHS831]

I would guess that he is not even on our board.

[iamhubby1]

Ok cool cats, lend me your eyes. Uncle Hubby gon school ya. The ONLY way this kid gets a nod from the boss. Is when we interview him. And don't kidilly kid yourself. We will interview him. He absolutely nails it.

 

If the kid can look Gman in the eye and make a believer out of him. He just might make our board. But that is the only way he even gets a look.

 

But that's the easy part. The hard part is impressing Gman during the evaluation process.

[Khyber53]

Drafting stupid people ends up biting you in the long run. If we draft him, I'm betting in a year he'll be keeping Frank Alexander from getting lonely on the couch. "Cough, pass the bong Frank, cough."

[The Lone Panther]

1% chance we draft this guy. 

[bobcat91]

He and his brother are being sued for beating a college student unconscious  with 3 other players. It is a well known rumor that they used and dealt drugs. I wouldn't take him in any round. Hardy is really stupid. Nkemdashian is criminal.

[joemac]

He doesn't scream a Panther to me...

[LinvilleGorge]

No.  Idiot.  The falling out the window stuff?  LOL, but whatever.  He completely lost me when he threw his potential #1 overall pick teammate under the bus.  You do something stupid, that's one thing, but you don't drag your friend and teammate's name into it.  I wouldn't touch the guy.

[Icebox]

Expect the Cowboys to draft him in the second round.

[LawCat]

I'm an Ole Miss grad and spend nearly as much time keeping up them as I do the Panthers. The Panthers want nothing to do with Nkemdiche. He is a phenomenal athlete but the word I have heard since he got to Ole Miss was that he surrounds himself with a very questionable group of people that place him in precarious off the field situations. His brother, Denzel, being one of them. Denzel, also a former Ole Miss football player has been hospitalized several times due to side effects is synthetic marijuana. Not many drugs make you willingly jump from a hotel window, synthetic weed is one that does.

I have no specifics, and everything I know is 2nd or 3rd hand, but all of Ole Miss was happy when he and his brother left. They were not liked. That says a lot about an otherworldly football talent in a town all about football.

[iamhubby1]

So...is he a kid that if put in the right environment, can grow into a productive adult? Will he be willing/able to distance himself from the wrong kind of people? Can he be taught how to work? Maybe all he needs is the right support group? If you think so, do you take a chance on him? He is probably gonna be on the board for a while. Is a late pick worth the chance?

 

Or is he just an idiot with talent?

[DamnItJake!]

this is one draft since Cam that I really don't give a poo about..just sucky teams at the top and have fun with your pick..Only thing makes it interesting is Cleveland as they will screw it some how..drafting Johnny makes me laugh still as I was not impressed with him in college...and well his partying should have ben a big clue..Just a shame the Browns were decent competition for Denver/Elway with Kosar at the helm... but have sucked since..but welcome to the dog pound