Jermaine Burton not going to Pittsburgh

[Essex Johnson]

(01-03-2025, 09:47 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I mean, at the risk of defending Burton, that's most NFL rookies. He went from being an actual legal child to being a 4 star recruit to Div 1 top-tier SEC teams. 

Having to learn life skills, working side jobs to make ends meet and so they can budget out enough of their money to eat ramen wasn't ever really in his curriculum. It's not like public schools are really teaching you useful life skills like that, so unless your parents teach you, you're kind of stuck to figure it out yourself. 

For normal people it's slower and with lower stakes than a 7-digit salary, and probably close to your childhood home rather than wherever the 1 of 32 teams took you are located.

One big problem with this assumption why is it then that a super majority of nfl rookies dont end up like it seems Burton is headed. It looks like he attended a solid high school in CA that offered classes that would have taught him  to know you have to pay your rent and show up to class/work .