More appropriately stated, what did he do to ever earn it?
Malcolm Kelly was initially told by the NFL Draft Advisory Committee that he was a second-round pick; a well-known draft site's blog intimates that his own coaches felt less optimistic and tried to dissuade him from leaving school early, feeling that he was a 3rd or 4th round prospect. So Kelly initially was given a 2nd-round grade by the NFL's Draft Advisory Committee, his own coaches allegedly didn't even share that much optimism, and then he proceeded to not be able to work out at the Combine, nor Oklahoma's first pro day, because of a long-lingering quadriceps injury. Then when he finally had his opportunity to make an argument for the first-round yesterday he was described at first as brash and self-absorbed before an embarrassing forty time- not to mention poor performances in other drills- made him whiny and flagrantly accusatory of his own coaching staff and college.
So how exactly has he parlayed that initial 2nd-round consideration into the top-11... of the first round!?!? Did he do it when he was injured and couldn't/didn't participate at all in the Combine? Did he do it when he was still injured three/four weeks later and couldn't participate in Oklahoma's official pro-day? Or did he do that when he finally did have his own pro day to validate any notion that he's a first-round talent, a mere 17 days before the draft, that he virtually self-destructed, revealing not only stunted ability for a skill position player but also a proclivity for assigning blame somewhere other than himself?
I'm going to give the Bills the benefit of what amounts to still some doubt for me that Buffalo won't take him at 11; but when did he ever deserve it?
Malcolm Kelly was initially told by the NFL Draft Advisory Committee that he was a second-round pick; a well-known draft site's blog intimates that his own coaches felt less optimistic and tried to dissuade him from leaving school early, feeling that he was a 3rd or 4th round prospect. So Kelly initially was given a 2nd-round grade by the NFL's Draft Advisory Committee, his own coaches allegedly didn't even share that much optimism, and then he proceeded to not be able to work out at the Combine, nor Oklahoma's first pro day, because of a long-lingering quadriceps injury. Then when he finally had his opportunity to make an argument for the first-round yesterday he was described at first as brash and self-absorbed before an embarrassing forty time- not to mention poor performances in other drills- made him whiny and flagrantly accusatory of his own coaching staff and college.
So how exactly has he parlayed that initial 2nd-round consideration into the top-11... of the first round!?!? Did he do it when he was injured and couldn't/didn't participate at all in the Combine? Did he do it when he was still injured three/four weeks later and couldn't participate in Oklahoma's official pro-day? Or did he do that when he finally did have his own pro day to validate any notion that he's a first-round talent, a mere 17 days before the draft, that he virtually self-destructed, revealing not only stunted ability for a skill position player but also a proclivity for assigning blame somewhere other than himself?
I'm going to give the Bills the benefit of what amounts to still some doubt for me that Buffalo won't take him at 11; but when did he ever deserve it?
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