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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AmishMafia" data-source="post: 529473" data-attributes="member: 2846"><p>Great point.  Some people think it is easy to assess talent - physical skills are easy, but there is much more to it than that.  Each season there are maybe 3 or 5 players who can step in day one and play at the NFL level - these are the only guys who are 'easy' to project.  A bunch more get it during or soon after training camp and produce well as rookies.  Most, though, you hope are able to make the step up within a year or two.   So, the vast majority of NFL draft picks you are projecting what they may become with work, training, and growth.  You can't predict how strong a player will become or his motivation to work - especially after you cut him a check for more money he has ever seen in his lifetime - opening up not-positive-for-athletes-opportunities he has never known.  And I don't just mean drugs - I mean big houses with pools; women; vacations; fine dining; etc.  All of which are fine (except the drugs of course) - just brings about some level of distraction.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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