No word yet as to where or whether Erik Gill is going to get a free agent offer from a team. Same for JJ Horne and Tez Morris.
Josh Cummings will get a shot to become a dome kicker after signing on with the St. Louis Rams. The Rams also signed UConn Power Forward Ed Nelson to come in as a Tight End.
Looks confirmed that Greg Lee has signed with the Arizona Cardinals. Lee is now getting the “What were you thinking?” treatment from pundits.
Don’t you feel dumb award: Pick a name, any name, of a poor boob who declared for the draft . . . and didn’t get drafted. My choice for biggest dunce: Pitt WR Greg Lee.
Or worse, the head-shaking, pity view.
4. Stay in school (unless you are a going on the first day): Coming out of school early is great if your name is Mario Williams, Reggie Bush, Vince Young, Vernon Davis or any of the other first-round selections. But it is really awful when a guy gives up a year of his college experience and his name is called in the seventh round or not at all. Fred Matua, Stanley McClover and Dee Webb, among others, should have stayed in school. I feel even worse for receiver Greg Lee, linebacker Kai Parham and others who went undrafted. It always amazes me how players hear what they want to hear about what will happen to them if they leave school early.
Like I said yesterday, if Lee could have come out as a Sophomore he would have been a 3d round pick on potential alone. Instead he had to come back, and was shown in his Junior season to have issues of concentration and consistency, not great speed, and his overall numbers dropped. I’m not sure any of that would have improved coming back for his Senior season. If Dickerson, Porter, Fields or any of the redshirt receivers even step up a little; Lee’s numbers drop further raising more questions about him.
Of course, he’d also be much closer to getting his degree (assuming like many other players, he doesn’t actually come back for his final semester while trying to concentrate on conditioning and training for the draft) which has to count for something.
