01-31-2024, 08:03 PM
(01-31-2024, 07:53 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Equally irritating is if people pretend there wasn't a whole boatload of red flags about John Ross and those red flags weren't overlooked because speed.
John Ross was a <5'11" and <190lb WR who had had one knee with an ACL tear, the other knee with 3 meniscus tears. He had a torn labrum his draft offseason that got surgery that December, and then he injured his calf running his 40 yard dash.
He had exactly 1 year of production and in that year he got absolutely shut down by Alabama (5 catches for 28 yards (5.6 AVG).
Then here comes the NFL and he gets an injured knee and ends up on the IR with a shoulder injury. Then he pulls his groin, pulls his groin again. Then he goes on IR with yet another shoulder injury.
Ross had missed the entire previous year and then after his one productive season he needed shoulder surgery. He hurt himself running his 40.
He was a small fragile dude with small hands and had only played WR for an entire year once. He missed 2015 entirely, in 2014 he was a part-time WR and part-time CB, and in 2013 he was a return specialist.
To be clear, I'm not trying to pretend that he had no red flags. His injury history was an issue and obviously manifested once he got to the NFL. I can happily accept that he wasn't a flawless prospect. I just take umbrage with the assessment of "he was fast and nothing else". There were several other reasons that brought him as high as he went, but it never worked out.
