Why would this really affect the Steelers’ draft? They never pick anyone that the “experts” expect them to pick.
If Clarett is skipping workouts and combines, it’s his own dumb fault. Show the NFL what you have, then ask for the money. Who’s this guy’s agent?
Hell, it took until the middle of last season for Lawrence Phillips to finally burn all his bridges in the CFL. I don’t doubt that Clarett could find work there if it came to it.
Looking at the Clarett lawsuit in general, does the NFL have a realistic chance to win? I don’t know if granting an injunction is a judge saying that the league would win. Based on what happens in NHL, NBA, and MLB I can’t see how the NFL has a leg to stand on.
Sorry for the slight hijack (I started a post about it but got no responses), but I see some of you from the SDMB fantasy football league. Since I am uncertain as to whether I will be subscribing in the next few months, could one of you make sure that whoever runs the league has my email (bababoooeyn@yahoo.com or sledet3@lsu.edu)? K tHaNx Bai!!!11!!!
Define “paid.” He was already a 3/4 round pick this year. If he has to sit out another year, now you’re talking about a guy who was effective in half a season two years ago. And his work ethic doesn’t improve, his combine stats may drop. I’d bet on a 5/6 round pick in 2005.
He’ll get a chance to be an NFL back, but he won’t get the four or five chances a 1st round back gets. Three years of NFL minimum wage doesn’t go that far when you’re an irresponsible fuckup.
Clarett will be bankrupt at 30.
He was a second rounder this year from what I’ve heard. Plus, he was back to his playing weight from his Ohio State days, so there goes the work ethic thing. Teams were impressed at his private workouts.
If he has the exact same showing in the workouts next year as he had this year, he’ll still be a middle of the first day pick, because although this year’s crop of backs is pretty thin, I don’t see next year being flush with them either. Second or third rounders make a pretty decent haul. Honestly, you don’t think he’s good enough to start somewhere or be a backup for eight years? That’s all it takes to be set for life.
Like you say, he’ll get a chance. Those who get paid to know seem to think he’ll make good on it. If he’s at 260 again at this time next year, you’re right, he’s most likely finished. If I was betting, though, I’d bet on a solidly mediocre NFL career.
Well, the stay was granted because the judge thought the NFL had demonstrated a good enough case, apparently. From ESPN:
It seems to me that the judges felt like the NFL was easily within their rights to exclude younger players. I don’t know much about the labor agreements and all that, so I can’t comment on the longterm possibilities, but as far as this year’s draft, it’s very likely that Clarett and Williams are out for this Saturday. If the final ruling on the matter says they should be in, then the league will include them in a supplemental draft sometime later.
Whoever takes this guy, and doesn’y immediately trade him away to someone more gullible, will be very sorry. This guy has ‘wasted talent’ written all over him.
So with Williams out of the draft, is he allowed to go back to USC? Has he made his intentions public?
This was my next question. In basketball, AFAIK, you can declare for the draft and then pull back within some preset amount of time without any problems. You may even be able to go back to school if you get passed over in the draft, but I am not sure.
I would guess that Williams has already got an agent, and I don’t think that the NCAA likes its football players to have agents. Of course, given the extraordinary situation, if Williams is declared ineligable for the draft I think that the NCAA might allow him back. As an USC fan, I hope he does come back.
Mike Williams has already filed his own lawsuit claiming that the NFL has cost him his college career.
If the supplemental draft idea is adopted, he will definitely enter that and be the first pick. If not, since it’s a very special case, USC will petition the NCAA to grant him his eligibility back. Pete Carroll has already started the public campaign to bring him back, and some guy from the NCAA said it was possible for a player to be reinstated if the school goes through the proper channels. It seems like a pretty easy case to make- the NFL said he could enter, so he entered, but now they say he couldn’t enter. Still, he did sign with an agent, and you should probably never say never where the NCAA is concerned.
I’d like to see him back with that offense again, too.
I’d like to see him back as well. That way, when LSU kicks USC’s ass in this year’s naitional championship, USC fans won’t be able to blame it on his absense.
Someone from the SDMB fantasy league help me out please!!!
I’ll tell you what, BabaBooey. I’ll just give you my email address now- I haven’t been in the football league, but I’m in the fantasy baseball league with a bunch of those guys, and if nothing else I can look up the appropriate email address when the time comes. If I see a thread I can either post something for you or just pass along the information, since I read any thread with the word football in the title. Will that work?
The email is man6215 AT garnet.acns.fsu.edu
Don’t ask me why it has to be thirty words long.
My email is in my first post in this thread. I just want to make sure that one of the people in the league will get see it and remember that I posted it when the time comes. I guess next time you post in the baseball league, just bring it up. Thanks.
Where? IIRC, Kiper said “maybe” first day, CNNSI has him as the 13th best RB.He’ll go higher than that because of upside potential, but no way 2nd round.
Talent-wise, yes. But when you start out as a rookie backup RB, you’re out there covering punts and kickoffs and getting 2 carries a game. How’s he going to respond to that, and all the media asking "Maurice, do you wish you were back starring at Columbus instead of backing up X ? " and writing “How the might have fallen” stories, how is he gonna handle it? Will he accept a role? Will he be coachable? My guess is not, and that he’ll flame out on his first team, then one or two more until he’s 25 and “potential” doesn’t sell anymore.
He’ll get a mil or so in bonus as a rookie, but as a lot of lottery winners have found out, it goes fast when you’re a jackass. Bankrupt by 35, tops.
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Remember, all it takes is one team, not a consensus, so even if half the teams in the league consider him a fifth rounder, one of the teams that thinks he’s a second rounder will grab him long before.
Regardless, I’m sick of being on his side. He’s a child, and you could be right- he might end up Ryan Leafing his way out of the league.