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This sounds like an April Fools joke, but apparently it's real

Mr. Scot

By Mr. Scot,
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17 minutes ago, Khaki Lackey said:

Every team needs a Brandon Williams to hang their hopes and dreams on when things aren't going well. We had our own Brandon Williams and in our case, our Brandon Williams happened to be the "actual" Brandon Williams.

He changed his name to Brandon Wehger. 

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1 hour ago, Cracka McNasty said:

I'm interested to see how he does against NFL competition, not NFL prospects and D-squad Germany players.

Still seems like a freak athlete though. 

A really good comparison is Jeff Janis of the Packers. He is a tall freak athlete WR that put up eerily similar numbers to this guy at his pro day two . He played DII college football so the competition was pretty bad although still better than those German teams. Packers drafted him in the 7th two years ago, stashed him on the back end of the roster to develop and he broke out a bit at the end of the year this past season. He was the guy who caught the two hail mary's on the last drive of their playoff game against the Cardinals.

Janis is also white so it's like a super bonus comparison where you get to include the racial component and have it still work!

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7 minutes ago, 15 said:

If Belichick gets his hands on this kid....fug.

Nah, don't worry. Grigson is definitely gonna draft this guy in the 2nd before the Pats even pick. He's a German and a WR. That's the Grigson exacta.

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3 minutes ago, KB_fan said:

Could it be that skipping the 7th round allow him to get an upper hand in identifying / contacting priority UDFAs?

My guess would be that he doesn't really see them as any different than UDFAs so if he can use it to move up in the draft to get a player he likes earlier or a player that he knows can make the roster like Norwood then in his mind he is coming out ahead since he can get the UDFAs he likely wants anyway.

i.e. Why draft Philly in the 7th when I can use the 7th to move up to get Bene in the 5th and sign Philly as a UDFA anyway?

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Interesting player! He seems to have all the physical attributes of a mismatch as a WR like Megatron did...and Megatron didn't show a lot from college as far as production because he played in that triple option at GT. My question is what showed the GM's and the draft analyst that Megatron was going to be a beast and top 5 pick in the draft the year he came out? Would this guy be any different than Hill or could he be at least a Megatron-lite?

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2 hours ago, Bartin said:

More likely that he trades the 7th. DG seems to have a real aversion to 7th round picks to the point where it seems like he thinks they are pretty useless. He's traded away the last 2 to move up in the draft as well as the one in 2017 for Norwood(the 7th in 2013 was traded away before DG got here) and a recent comment about Norwood where he said "we got a player for a 7th round pick which is really good" or something along those lines which makes me believe he doesn't really value them at all.

And he showed last year that he would trade picks in the draft to move up if he got the chance to snag someone who has fallen. I think losing his 6th rounder, Gaffney, to the Patriots from the practice squad made him value guys who can come in and make the roster over late rounders that usually don't make the squad and then get poached. He likes UDFAs it seems because you have little investment if they don't make the team and the talent between a late rounder and UDFA isn't that large.

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So let's say it is the end of the 7th round, and you still have that pick. If there is a UDFA out there that gets your juices flowing. Having the pick to use can be and advantage. Which is fine for teams where that UDFA may actually have a chance to make the team.

 

Whereas, with us. That 7th rounder, or the UDFA really have no reasonable chance of making our team. So using that 7th in conjunction with other picks to move up is a sound business practice.

 

 

On a side note. I almost got sex this afternoon. Damm I hate April Fools.

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