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Evaluator on Bowers: “He cost himself millions”


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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/01/evaluator-on-bowers-he-cost-himself-millions/

Three teams at the workout told PFW’s Nolan Nawrocki that Bowers struggled. They had his forty times in the mid 4.9′s and don’t think his knee is healthy.

“He’s not ready. He was hobbling around out there. The shuttles were bad. There’s no way to sugarcoat it. He cost himself millions of dollars,” one team said.

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that is what i was thinking. i doubt he'd last until the 3rd so we won't get to take advantage but some team will get him in the top or mid second and could be a steal then. even if he needs microfracture surgury and is out another year he will recover and he has tremendous talent once he is healed. i know team will want their 2nd round pick to not sit two years but if they can get him fixed up and ready for 2012, especially if 2011 never happens, then they've really lost nothing! at most, they lose 1 year.

Blake Griffin lost his rookie season to injury and look at him now.

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that is what i was thinking. i doubt he'd last until the 3rd so we won't get to take advantage but some team will get him in the top or mid second and could be a steal then. even if he needs microfracture surgury and is out another year he will recover and he has tremendous talent once he is healed. i know team will want their 2nd round pick to not sit two years but if they can get him fixed up and ready for 2012, especially if 2011 never happens, then they've really lost nothing! at most, they lose 1 year.

Blake Griffin lost his rookie season to injury and look at him now.

I Dout he falls to the 2nd but if he did I d give uP next years 2 and a this years 3 to get him

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Said in the other thread. He'll have a chance to be another Greg Hardy (underdrafted overachiever).

Did he likely lose millions on his first contract though? Probably not as much as it would have been without a rookie salary cap (still in discussion) but yeah.

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Said in the other thread. He'll have a chance to be another Greg Hardy (underdrafted overachiever).

Did he likely lose millions on his first contract though? Probably not as much as it would have been without a rookie salary cap (still in discussion) but yeah.

No way in the world he drops as far as Hardy did.

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