Andre Smith still leads in the Database at #13

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Originally Posted by wilsowilso

Fat Boy Smith is a very good college football player, but I would prefer that we don't draft someone who has possible character and motivation issues. Is that too much to ask for?

Personally, I don't think it's about his character or about getting motivated. With his character, there's not many "bad things" that I've heard he does. About his motivation- I think whatever type of work you do in practice - shows up on gameday (bad work ethnic-bad gameday performance, good work ethnic-good gameday performance). From what I've seen from him, he's had great performances on gameday, so...

I think the real issue is that he is not mature enough (for whatever reason) to be able to handle of all of this right now. And not in the getting-drunk-all-night-and-partying type of immature. More of a deer-in-the-headlights-I-don't-know-what's-going-on type of immaturity. And as a result, he's made a few bad decisions that have been magnified and snowballed in the public media.

I think he's worth the 13th pick, but he would need some better guidance and mentoring to really excel.