03-16-2022, 01:32 PM
(03-16-2022, 12:03 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Anyone who judges an NFL player by his rookie season does not really understand the NFL. In the last 10 years there have been 15 O-linemne who did not start as a rookie who went on to Pro Bowl selections.(T.J. Lang, Evan Mathis, Donald Penn, Taylor Lewan, Rodney Hudson, Brandon Brooks, Terron Armstead, Josh Sitton, Jason Peters, Jerome Bushrod, Charles Leno, Chris Meyers, Jeff Saturday, Wyatt Teller, Jeremy Zuttah).
The list of guys who just became good starters would be much, much longer. So to answer your question, it happens all the time.
Andrew Whitworth would not have started as a rookie except for injuries, and he looked so bad playing OT against the Colts that there were many Bengal fans who claimed FOR YEARS that he was not good enough to play OT in the NFL and should be moved back to OG.
I have to say, that is an impressive list. I wonder how well that it would stack up against a list highly regarded college OL that busted, or never came near reaching their expected potential in the NFL?
It almost feels like you are using an exception rather than the norm, and attempting to present it as "it happens all the time".
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