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Originally Posted by dlphg9
I'm not questioning them. They're not coming out here and saying "wow Justyn is going to crack the starting lineup." They literally haven't lost out on anything by keeping him around. He's not taking up a roster spot, costs basically nothing, and didn't cost a draft pick. How do my thoughts on an UDFA contradict what I said about them and the draft? There was no risk. None. What bad faith arguments have I made? He's never been some great athlete.
There are plenty of people in this thread that are giddy about Ross, especially before he missed basically all of last off-season.
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You've argued that he's not an NFL athlete several times. You've brought up the high school 40 time several times. You've brought up the 4.63 pro day 40 time several times, even though we now know he ran it on a botched surgery and the foot required another surgery to get it right.
People are giddy because they see what he did as a freshman, which is understandable, but the kid hasn't played a lot of football since, so they ought to cool their jets a bit - but there's intriguing possibility there without a doubt. He's not a typical UDFA talent.
He's got a big hill to climb because he missed a lot of football development.
That's about as even handed an opinion as I can give, and it seems to be right where Veach and Reid are at. I think if you're too far either way on the kid you're off base.
Rooting for him to succeed is just being a fan and loving an underdog story.