Don’t believe the hype!
It’s that time of year when interesting news about the NFL is at a minimum. There’s no combine to get us speculating. The draft is over so that means the 286 mock drafts you studied were all proved to be totally wrong. Any of the Free Agents you were really interested in are already signed. The only things happening at this particular moment are Rookie Minicamps. As a result of this the NFL Insiders really have nothing better to do than exaggerate everything they see happen. When you here someone speculate that Derrius Guice could be the next Marshall Faulk because he caught two passes during a drill in the Rookie Minicamp. Do yourself a favour and don’t just take that statement with a grain of salt. Take it with the whole damn salt shaker! I came across an article that described Baker Mayfield as the second coming. Not only did he complete three straight passes, but it was to two different Receivers! I hope the Patriots had a spy close by to take notes so they can properly game plan for him. What’s really disappointing about the information that industry Insiders choose to share with the masses, is that they only focus on the obvious stars!
What about the undrafted Free Agents?
If you are a true fan of NFL football, then you will know of at least a couple Undrafted Free Agents that went on to become Superstars. I’m talking about the Tony Romo, Kurt Warner, or Antonio Gates type of Player. Could there be a Player of that caliber picked up a few days after the draft? Has anyone that we don’t already know about show some real promise in the Rookie Minicamp? If there is I’d absolutely love to hear about it! I’m going to go out on a metaphorical limb here, and say that we won’t hear about anyone. You can be damn sure that by week 1 of the NFL Season there will be a few names of Players that you didn’t hear a peep about until they lit it up during the Preseason. One day they seemingly don’t exist, then during the third game of the Preseason they make a highlight reel play, and every NFL Insider has full chapter and verse on them. It happens in mere seconds. Sure they have Player profiles in their database on every Player. That’s not what this is. They already saw the potential in the Rookie Minicamp, OTAs, and full team training camps. They just never had the guts to go on the record, and make a real prediction. Better to say absolutely nothing than to risk being wrong.
And that’s precisely why!
All you are going to hear about over the next couple of weeks are safe predictions about first or second Round draft selections. You will get tidbits of information about Players that provide a suitable scandal, or human interest story. What I can promise you is that anything you hear shouldn’t effect who you plan on keeping in your Keeper league, or selecting in your Fantasy draft. Unless they get injured of course. Well that’s just a part of football. If you didn’t know that you probably shouldn’t be playing Fantasy.