PacMan v.2

[CJD]

(12-13-2019, 05:38 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: I feel like a decent amount of red flags for draft picks end up causing major issues in the Pros.

A guy like Burfict goes undrafted because of a ton of personal fouls in college and kind of being uncontrollable. I'd say that we got a few productive years out of him, but for the most part...the red flags were right on.

Same with Jones. Same with Jenkins.

Guys like Lawson and Ross were labelled as injury risks...and they've been hurt a lot in their Pro careers.

We could probably name others.

There are guys like Mixon though that have college issues, that are good citizens in the Pros though, so it's not a 100% of the time thing. But it happens a lot.

I don't know the history of Jones' and Jenkins' off field issues during college, but one reason Mixon may not be a track for this kind of predictive cycle is because he had one issue right before his freshman year. His entire college career (with the exception of one game suspension for mouthing off to a parking attendant) was pretty much spotless and we were only talking about it before his draft because the video from 3 years prior had just recently been released.

I imagine Jenkins and Jones (and I know this to be the case for Burfict) were more "consistent" off field (or in Burfict's case, on field) issue causers.