All the "distractions" notwithstanding... I'm curious. How many 7th round draft choices have actually made an NFL team in the last, say, ten years?
I can think of one 17th rounder who turned out pretty good, but that was in prehistoric times.
If you had said 15 years...
TJ Hoisermama, Marques E. Colston, Stevie Johnson, Ryan Fitzpatrick? Not to mention all the undrafted guys just from the Pack alone.
Shannon Sharpe was taken in the 7th. So was Bo Jackson (second time around).
EDIT: Whoops, TJ should be in the second list, over ten years ago drafted.
Originally Posted by SanDiegoPackFan:
wow...speaking of intolerant people, Hank. You just made my point, thanks!
now, don't get all butt-hurt about being called out on your intolerance....you know, start swearing and calling others' names when you can't defend your point of view and all. 
BTW....calling any American a "Reaganite" is a compliment. Thanks!
You take generic cowardly stupidity to a whole new level.
GENERIC?!?! Come on now...if anything, it should be NAME-BRAND stupidity.
You are the Mountain Yeller of banal idiocy. Revel in it.
Piggly Wiggly. Ahhhh...Wisconsin, the taste of home.
I'm having a ZBud flashback.
Too much glue?
Rich Vos is appearing at Helium Comedy Club in Buffalo August 7-9.
Is TCTD opening for him?
Originally Posted by SanDiegoPackFan:
Piggly Wiggly. Ahhhh...Wisconsin, the taste of home.
Red Owl!
That logo creeped me out as a kid.
LOL, 'Big Red Owl' is watching you!
Nothin' against Piggly, my first love worked at GB's east side Wiggly.
Straight, white, Christian guys are victims....
...of ticking basically every box on majority positions. It's a tough world for them. If only they had the extreme advantages of homeless minorities they could live a decent life.
Originally Posted by StarrToDowler:
All the "distractions" notwithstanding... I'm curious. How many 7th round draft choices have actually made an NFL team in the last, say, ten years?
I can think of one 17th rounder who turned out pretty good, but that was in prehistoric times.
I guess I asked the wrong question. True, a number of late and last round picks have survived and flourished. But statistically, the great majority never made through their first training camp.
The question really should be is someone who supposedly is a marginal player at this level worth all that comes along with it? Or, are the "experts" wrong, he's not marginal, should have been picked a lot earlier, and wasn't because of prejudice and discrimination?