![]() Plus, I liked what I saw of Morris on film (via YouTube) which suggested that this was not your typical 6th round pick and worth adding to my rosters. ![]() I could have just said "Taken in 6th, 95% bust rate, end of story, nothing to see here because I will be right 95% of time." Instead I took the time to look at the context (which Bloom went over extensively with EBF in another thread) and among them was the Helu injury and what Shanny had done with other unheralded picks in the past. That is how I ended up with Morris on three of my dynasty teams last year. So, probabilities really don't mean that much when you are looking at individual players, their background story, viewing their highlight/game tapes and the unique team context they find themselves in. ![]() In a more talented draft class Pinner would likely be a 6-7th round pick.Ĭlick to expand.As I have said before in other threads, we are just talking probabilities, which are fine if one knows absolutely nothing else about a player except that he was taken in a certain round. Suggs was actually the next highest rated guy going into the draft but all of these players ended up being useless except for the 1st rounders. Larry Johnson was good but had attitude problems. I do not think it is fair to compare Stacy to Pinner when Stacy is clearly a much better prospect than Pinner was. Eric Shelton was an actual example of a Workout Warrior (don’t say Mike Mamula or I’ll throw things - Mamula was a solid pro) he had a great Combine, went in the second round, and then had eight pro carries.Ĭlick to expand.Stacy on the other hand had 4.55 40 27 bench reps (Doug Martin 28 last season) tied with Ahmad Bradshaw for 7th overall in 3 cone since 2006.įurthermore Stacy was the main thing that allowed the Vanderbuilt Commodores to be a winning team for the 1st time in like 80 years in the tough SEC conference that is perennially a huge supplier of Nfl defensive players. Chris Henry, a second-round pick at 122.7, quickly fell behind LenDale White and CJ38 in the depth chart and hasn’t done anything as a pro. Kevin Jones had an elite Speed Score, at 123.4 after a great rookie year, he suffered through injuries and the miasmic suck that was Detroit, and never developed. Speed Score has a few misses in the first couple of rounds. You’d certainly prefer the guys at the top of this list over the guys at the bottom. Here’s a listing of the players taken in the fourth round from 1999 through 2009 (the years for which Speed Score exists), sorted by Speed Score:įrank Moreau (100.5 - everything below here would be considered a below-average Speed Score) He graduated in December 2013.Take the aforementioned fourth round, for example. Pinner returned to the University of Kentucky in the summer of 2013 to complete his degree in media studies. After the 2008 preseason, he was waived by the Lions during final cuts on August 30, 2008. On May 1, 2008, he returned to the Detroit Lions. He had his best game statistically, which was his first start in the NFL, on December 10, 2006, when he ran for 125 yards and three touchdowns against his former Detroit Lions. Pinner was cut by the Detroit Lions in 2006 and was quickly claimed by the Minnesota Vikings. Through the 2005 season, Pinner scored five touchdowns, all rushing. He increased his rushing total in each of his first three seasons in the league, going from 99 yards in 2003 to 174 yards in 2004 to 349 yards in 2005. Pinner was drafted with the second pick of the fourth round of the 2003 NFL Draft by the Lions. He was a star running back for the University of Kentucky between 19, running for 1414 yards in 2002, second-most in a single season in school history to Moe Williams. In track, he was a two-time Regional Champion in the 400 meter dash. Pinner attended Hopkinsville High School in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and was a standout in football and track. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the fourth round of the 2003 NFL Draft.
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