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would you take a shot on a player who has never played football 7th round?

micnificent28

By micnificent28,
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Absolutely. 7th round picks are throwaways anyway. Better to spend a 7th and secure the rights to a guy than have to try to win him over via FA. If a guy is a freak athlete and you don't have any qualms about him other than inexperience, I'd definitely take a shot in the 7th, or even the 6th if there's not another more pressing need available (for example, Kicker).

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Athleticism you can't teach... unfortunately, you can't really teach football field smarts to a guy who has spent 22 years never knowing what it feels like to be on the field. You can be as fast as you want to be, but if you don't know where to run then you're worthless. It's the same reason that Usain Bolt wouldn't work as an NFL player. It takes more than physical gifts to make it work. He'll be coming to a league where he's only a few tenths of a second faster than guys who have been playing the game their whole life. It just makes no sense to invest a draft pick into a guy like this.

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