Undrafted Texas players
by Texasfootball10 on Apr 25, 2010 10:43 PM CDT
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This year we had 6 players drafted:
- Earl Thomas to Seahawks
- Sergio Kindle to Ravens
- Lamar Houston to Raiders
- Jordan Shipley to Bengals
- Colt McCoy to Browns
- Roddrick Muckelroy to Bengals
For those of you who are curious where Ulatoski, Tanner, and Lawrence are.
- Adam Ulatoski signs free agent contract with the Houston Texans
- Charlie Tanner signs free agent contract with the New York Jets
- Hunter Lawrence signs a 2 year deal with Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Hopefully Ben Alexander and Deon Beasley will find a team soon. Best wishes to all of these players...Earl Thomas for DROY, Shipley for OROY. HOOK"EM HORNS!
Here's the link to the article. http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/longhorns/index.html
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Ben Alexander could always do Miller High Life commercials
if he doesnt have a football future
Yes I know, the joke has been way overdone. Deal with it.
Stumpy: It's called the '80s. Ford was president, Nixon was in the White House, and FDR was running this country into the ground. I was bummin' in a hole-in-the-wall town in what is now called "Utah".
Jevan Snead
He seems eager to take a shortcut to the NFL. Well, he jumped out of college a year early and fell sqarely on his face. He did get picked up undrafted by Tampa Bay. What was he thinking, he did not a good junior year and had no reason to leave early. Got what he earned.
before the season started he was projected as a first rounder
Now hes a no rounder.
Also, whats the difference between H Lawreneces contract and other free agent contracts? Is he guranteed a spot on the roster?
Lawrence
So far they havent released their contract information, Hunter is the only one I read that said he got a two year deal. Basically they got signed but havent released details thats it.
by Texasfootball10 on Apr 26, 2010 12:15 AM CDT up reply actions
Blame it on Todd McShay...
..he’s the one that started that buzz based on the one bowl game. He did the same to Andre Woodson of Kentucky the year before. McShay puts these thoughts in the college kids minds that they are THAT good that they can come out and the actual scouts think like McShay does, which they don’t.
by vy til i die on Apr 26, 2010 7:53 AM CDT up reply actions
I agree
but making a major life-changing decision based on what one dude from ESPN says (not even a scout)? Kids should get advice from multiple scouts before deciding.
by goingforthecorner on Apr 28, 2010 1:23 PM CDT up reply actions
Agree
He threw like 20plus int this year, his coaches and other people advised him that he should stay his senior year. If he had a decent year and limit his int he could have been a 4-5 round pick.
by Texasfootball10 on Apr 26, 2010 12:25 AM CDT up reply actions
Snead doesn't have the intangibles
Snead may have tangibles but he doesn’t have the intangibles that will allow him to reach his upside.
All TV Analystspeak aside, I believe Snead will be a starting QB in the NFL before Tebow.
Snead bothers me
I think it is the fact that he jumped ship from Texas before he had really proven his worthiness to ba a starting QB. Sure, he wasn’t likely to jump McCoy, but he had a solid year of play time coming and he would have been very well developed and ready to lead and prove himself. And, he played well below expectations this past year at Ole Miss, but instead of working harder and proving himself, he looked for a way out and tried to jump to the NFL.
Nobody wants a QB that isn’t willing to stay, fight. learn and improve. If a team had drafted him they would pretty much know he’d be whining to be traded when he didn’t get the starting job on day one. He really must have an inflated sense of self. If he worried more about improving, playing, and proving himself a winner on the field he would have more opportunity and he really made a huge mistake jumping early. He has no where to go now so maybe he will start working hard to stay in the league.
My Ole Miss friends said this about Snead...
“It was the first Saturday he didn’t get picked”
"I've never gone into a game trying to win the Heisman Trophy; I go into a game trying to win." - Colt McCoy
by Robertpz on Apr 26, 2010 7:02 AM CDT reply actions 3 recs
He actually had a pretty decent first year at Ole Miss, and not just in the bowl game (56% comp, 26/13 TD/INT, 8.5 yd/attempt). A lot of what I’ve heard from Arkansas people is that Nutt more or less ruins QBs and that is why Snead decided to get out early.
And yes thats true
I thought Snead had much more talent than he got credit for, and his arm strength was tops in the SEC, save Ryan Mallett. I think Snead has a good shot at making a team and setting himself up for a shot.
I have no problem with Snead leaving UT when he did. He wanted to play somewhere, and we couldn’t give him that chance. Fair enough. Plus…he’s a Texan.
Stumpy: It's called the '80s. Ford was president, Nixon was in the White House, and FDR was running this country into the ground. I was bummin' in a hole-in-the-wall town in what is now called "Utah".
I agree on Snead leaving early
Maybe he hadn’t proven his “worthiness” as a starting QB, but Colt McCoy had proven that Snead would never be the starting QB at Texas. Snead was too talented to resign himself to being a career backup. These kids (especially pro prospects) have to read the writing on the wall, and they can’t afford to wait around until they have one year of eligibility left to do it.
With that said, Snead obviously made a terrible decision coming out this year. I think his success during his sophomore year at Ole Miss went to his head, and he probably went into his junior year already thinking he wanted to come out early and couldn’t be convinced otherwise. Either that, or he was just getting some really bad advice from someone … perhaps an overzealous parent ready for their kid to start making millions and with a gross overestimation of the player’s worth in the eyes of NFL GMs.
Would have like to have seen Snead under GD for five years
He’d be a different player.
"You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish" -- Darrell Royal
by SpiritOfTheFedora on Apr 30, 2010 3:05 PM CDT up reply actions
I had to just rub my eyes...
Was that a compliment for Greg Davis?
by BeeCaveHornFan on May 1, 2010 4:01 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I wonder why the NFL doesn’t realize that every SEC quarterback is better than the qbs in every other league.
Snead may go No. 1 in the draft this year if the team drafting needs a quarterback. He will be the first quarterback taken in the draft and Tebow will go in the first round. Mallet next year, or the year after, will be the first quarterback taken."
http://blog.newsok.com/sportsmedia/2009/09/24/cbs-analyst-danielson-brags-about-sec-quarterbacks/
I tend to agree about Mallett, though
I don’t think Tebow belonged anywhere near the first round, but Mallett has everything one could possibly need to be an accomplished pure passer. Seems like a bigger Jeff George, except without the problems between the ears.
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by burntorangehorn on Apr 26, 2010 1:00 PM CDT up reply actions
Agreed
Mallett is a strange guy, but I have never seen a QB with the cannon this guy has.
Stumpy: It's called the '80s. Ford was president, Nixon was in the White House, and FDR was running this country into the ground. I was bummin' in a hole-in-the-wall town in what is now called "Utah".
Snead
I was thinking that Snead had at least 1 year of seperate from Colt, if not 2 years, but after reviewing what happened he really was kind of screwed if he stayed at Texas. He played his Freshman year after Colt got hurt at the end of the season against K-State and again agasint the Aggies. He almost brought us back to win so kuddos to him.
Colt had redshirted so that put them even…so I guess he really didn’t have an option to wait it out. Also, he was recruited by Orgeron at Ark and then he left and he was left with a new coach. He had some bad luck really. Still a bad decision to not prove himself this year on the field, unless maybe he though their O-Line was like OU’s and didn’t want to get injured a la Bradford.
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