Randall Cobb Considers the NFL, Levitation
By Paul Jordan
Randall Cobb returning to the Earth after inter-dimensional flight
With the Cats resting this week, all we have to do for our weekly football fix is to now begin freaking out about the offseason. When not freaking out about basketball, I have been known, on occasion, to dabble in nervous breakdowns over football. Normally this has been kept in check over the years, before the bowl game streak there was basically no panic attacks, and early players departures were usually due to injuries or callings from higher powers. Now that there is some talent on the football team I have a whole new set of issues to worry about; and that’s early departures to the NFL. There aren’t too many seniors on the team that I feel have a great shot at getting into the league, but our class of thrilling third-years has started fielding questions on whether or not they will venture off the beach of college football and into the dark waters of pro ball. Recently Randall Cobb answered the question by giving a clear and definite “maybe”, and even cyborg tackling machine Danny Trevathan has mentioned the possibility. With two of your best players and team leaders on both sides of the ball start making talk like that, one could ponder if that will affect preparations for the filthiest team on this side of the Mississip’, but hopefully the extra week will allow these questions to die down. Let’s look at the draft prospects for Cobb and see if we can find anything that would convince him to go out and show the rest of the world his telekinetic abilities.
NFLDraftScout.com has a surprisingly small amount of information on our young man god but does rank him 6th out of all wide receivers in the country and has his stock going up. Most of the stuff on there read like a UK athletics player bio but it is nice to see such a high ranking for the 3rd ranked total yards performer in the SEC. Give me a break Draftscout, I dare you to name 5 better players in the country, much less receivers.
Thesportsjury.com has an overview of the receivers in the SEC, along with NFL comparisons and projected draft position. Not the most professional site in the world, but they make good points evaluating Cobb and have him going somewhere in the last three rounds if he goes this year, but project him going in the middle rounds if he waits until next year.
Walterfootball has Randall Cobb as the 15th ranked WR going in the 4th or 5th round….in 2012. They don’t even have him ranked in the top-45 this year, so I’m not going to waste much time on this site, they’re obviously a little shallow on intellect, or they’re from eastern Tennessee. Same thing.
Looking over all this information, one hing is evident: People recognize the ability of Randall Cobb but still don’t buy in to his prospects at the next level. While putting your name in for the draft may seem like a death knell to the casual observer, it is far from buying a ticket out of Lexington. Many draft eligible underclassmen do this so they can be evaluated by a professional team of scouts, after which they can read their report. The benefits of having such a report are numerous, the evaluation shows what your strengths are and what you need to work on, as well as giving yourself a non-partisan judgment of your draft stock. What I see happening here is that Cobb is looking at the next level but keeping his bags unpacked until next year, when he doesn’t have to contend with the potential of trying to get picked alongside draft candy like A.J. Green and Julio Jones. So unless someone pulls some sort of dark magic out and goes all “Yes Randolph Morris, I think you could be a first rounder this year” on Cobb, we will have our beloved deity back for one more year.
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