Trivia Question: Draft Age

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(04-25-2016, 05:16 PM)Bengal Dude Wrote: Gotta be Whit and Shipley. They both turned 25 during their rookie seasons.

(04-25-2016, 05:38 PM)fredtoast Wrote: So whit must have been held back a year in school (probably for athletic reasons) and then spent 5 years at LSU.

But thanks for the ammo for the next time someone starts going off about how no team should ever draft a player as "old" as Hunt.

They turned 25 during their rookie years, but Margus Hunt turned 26 before his rookie year even started.

Not to mention both of them actually grew up playing football. They didn't just get by through physically dominating children as a grown man (Hunt never had more than 3 sacks until his senior year as a 25-year-old man playing against 18-21-year-old boys). They actually had football skills. The argument is against drafting someone that raw that old, not just that old.

Meanwhile Carlos Dunlap is heading into his 7th year in the NFL and only his age 27 season compared to Hunt's 4th year in the NFL and his age 29 season.

But please, keep pretending that it's not apples to oranges. We all know it's your specialty.