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It was during his freshman year so a lot happened since, but his performance against Duke in 2013 was one of the best I've ever seen.
I certainly agree he never reached the potential he had as a recruit and had his fair share of bad plays, but he was still overall a very good CB, maybe not a first round talent but certainly not the 13th or worse best CB in this draft.
You're right. I'm no NFL draft expert. But there are clearly a lot of draft experts that are coming to the same conclusion. I don't think it's unhealthy to take the homer blinders off.
He was just in Cassell last week shooting hoops and looked fine. He even thought second round, so this has to be crushing. Maybe Skins at 21 will take him, I'm still not sold on some of the secondary.
Ugh... That's right, and he got torched by Ohio State because of it.
Not a good look at all for the program right now... We could have prevented this or at least avoided worsening the situation.
Not sure anyone else is watching the NFL Network but the timing of that last commercial break was awesome. As BILLS PICK IS IN scrolls below, the Jim Kelly commercial is sitting while he's going "I didn't want to play in Buffalo, I didn't want to play where it was cold..."
Sure, he played hurt this year, but I think we let the last name blind us. I can't think of a game where I thought "holy fuck, Kendall owns this team" unlike a Kyle vs GT. I always thought the lore superseded the performance.
"NFL Comparison: Kyle Fuller"
Well that's just lazy analysis. Hey, he's like his brother! (not to mention they don't really play alike)
Basically, you don't want to see your name listed on Mel's "Best Available" list. Kendall has been on that scroll/list for a while now.
He was injured since summer camp. Bad look to ever send him to the field this year. We got the standard coach speak that he was "nicked up" or something, but his injury was clearly severe.
Interestingly, Kendall's draft profile on NFL.com has him listed as a projected round 3-4:
http://www.nfl.com/draft/2016/profiles/kendall-fuller?id=2555349
Yet the drumbeat from all the experts was round 1-2. I certainly don't think all the CBs being taken before him are actually better.
I seem to remember we played Fuller while he was injured this year... Please tell me this is wrong, else we come off looking unbelievably incompetent right now.
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It's not like Kendall's knee injury got worse after declaring for the draft. Seems someone led him astray.
He was pretty unanimously considered a 1st round pick by all experts prior to this season
2015 cost him 7 figures, easy
NFL teams must think Kendall's knee is absolutely wrecked. That's the only reason he's slipped this far. It's not just our own bias that views him highly, some very respected NFL experts had him as a first round talent that would likely be 2nd round because of the injury. For him to drop this far, something is up. Because outside of guys like Apple and Hargraves, I'd say Fuller (if healthy) better than every other DB drafted.
Kendall's knee injury must be absolutely awful. Only explanation. I could see the argument for the first 6 or 7 CB's taken before him but now it's getting ridiculous.
I guess I am in the fringe minority of homers that didn't think Kendall was a world-beater. He's good, but got smoked several times. That back-dive deflection was against an FCS team.
Panthers take 2 DBs... Neither are Fuller...
Well that's enough for me tonight
Kendall should just go ahead and fire his agent now
WHAT IS GOING ON!?!!
Dat trade up by Carolina though!
False alarm.
And a cousin? Really?
Holy crap. 12 CB's and counting before Kendall.
Please not Cleveland. Kendall deserves better than that.
Kendall didn't rack up the stats, but that's because teams often didn't throw his way. The frequent line from the commentators was basically, "kiss that half of the field goodbye." In the 2014 OSU game, when Kendall came out with cramps, the announcer mused that they should immediately go after his backup because it would be their first opportunity to go to that side of the field. Whereas you saw Kyle all the time because he was often aligned closer to the middle of the field, Kendall was off to the side, shutting down whoever he faced.