Around the NFL: Offseason edition 2.0

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Originally Posted by JoeRedskin

I routinely sat next to a guy who was on his last year of eligibility and was the 3rd string WR. We're talking one day and he tells me he has a plate in his wrist that restricts its mobility. In the next breath, he tells me how he's training hard for the draft and his agent thinks he could go in the 9th or 10th round; he was certain that, once he got drafted, he would be in the NFL for life b/c his coaches kept telling him he was just a victim of the numbers game at UMCP.

I just remember thinking - "3rd string WR from a sometimes top 20 school with a plate in your wrist. Oh yeah, that's spells perennial All-Pro." Guy was nice enough but dumber than a brick.

A shame, but a lot of them have that very mindset.