Calvin Jackson Jr?
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Not signed so far.
Undersized at 5’10”, doesn’t have blazing speed, and only 1 year of significant production. Going to be an uphill battle to get into a camp, much less make a roster.
Tay Martin signed as UDFA with the 49ers.
Returning to this, he wound up getting a minicamp invite from the Jets.
Taking a victory lap on 1 3rd round pick, 2 UDFA, and two guys brought in for extra bodies so the picks can practice?
When did this little nugget get wedged into this claim? That camp word hasn’t been there before…….
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Come on now. You also said that Borghi and Harris would be drafted.
Harris would have been drafted as a WR, IF most to almost all of the 1st round hadn't been used for defense picks, since WR's were, are so valuable, deep of a class.
The valuableness would have helped with the getting drafted if all the near record amount of defense hadn't been picked, taken.
And because of how extremely deep WR class was, is, that despite valuableness of WR's, the only way Harris, Jackson we're going to be drafted was, is for less defense to have been taken.
That draft year, was the worst possible year for Harris, Jackson to to be able to get drafted, because of Defense being taken, and how deep WR class was, despite how valuable WR are because of the Air Raidization of the NFL.
Harris didn’t get drafted because 32 teams didn’t have him as one of the best 260 eligible players. Period. I like Harris but there’s no other way to spin this. Draft picks are currency, you’ve only got so much to spend and the job of an NFL GM is to maximize what they do with that currency.
Oh Chris the hall monitor … he did say it and texted it to me several times . Biggs has opinions … you not so much …
Heck …if he was a baseball player he would be an all star hitting .333. He had Borghi, you had delaura .
DeLaura will never take a snap in a real NFL game. Borgi still has a shot in the right situation.
If your in a extremely deep position class, then your either are not going to get drafted, or not going to get drafted as high.
If your position, class can get 50 drafted, because of how deep, good the position class is, then you have a worse chance of getting drafted.
If you don't have very many almost as good, equal, slightly better competition, if you don't have a lot of draft worthy competition, then if you are a marginal, borderline draft worthy, then you might or might not get drafted.
But if you have a lot draft worthy competition, then if you are marginal, borderline draft worthy, you probably won't be drafted.
There are the following levels.
Top of 1st round.
1st round.
2nd round, 3 rd round.
Mid round.
Late round.
Borderline draft worthy, might be drafted, might not.
Not draft worthy.
Camp invitee, attendee.
Not even worthy of going to a NFL team camp.
Those are the levels regardless of how deep, good the class, position is.
Now with those levels in mind. If you are borderline draft worthy, if the class, position, is extremely deep, good, draft worthy, etc, then a borderline draft worthy player will NOT get drafted.
If the class, position, is NOT deep, good, draft worthy, etc, then a borderline draft worthy player either will, or has a extremely good chance of being drafted.
Basic Law of supply and demand.
As good as the demand for WR is, the Supply of draft worthy WR far surpassed the demand.
Add to that A NFL DRAFT RECORD AMOUNT OF DEFENSIVE PLAYERS BEING PICKED FIRST 3 ROUNDS OF DRAFT.
There was just no chance in hell of a normally borderline draft worthy WR, etc, in a normal year being drafted in a non normal year of record amount of defenders being drafted, and such a deep, good WR class of draftable WR's.
Just toooo much good draftable WR's, and defenders being drafted, for a normally borderline draft worthy WR in Harris to compete with, get drafted.
If Harris could have jumped into a time machine, and went back in time to a year, where less number of defenders got drafted, where there was a lot less number of draftable WR, with almost as high WR demand, Harris as a borderline draft worthy, in last round of draft WR, probably might probably have been drafted.
If you don't get this, your illogical, and don't understand supply vs demand, affecting the chances of getting drafted, and don't get how drafting primarily defensive players over offensive players affects the chances of a WR getting drafted or not, then your illogical.
I hesitate to say never, he’s got a couple years to let his head catch up with his arm.
Big problem is see in the last 2 years is that even when he shows improvement, he gives it back. Part of it is youth, and there were certainly politics this season that we don’t know about. But after 17 games as starter, he didn’t show that much improvement. He played well at UW (although, the whole team did)…and then laid an egg against CMU (although, the whole team did). That was a trend for him. He also frequently didn’t seem to have the team behind him, particularly in the bowl game.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see him in a camp. Also wouldn’t be surprised to see him in the indoor league. Or selling pineapples at the Dole plantation. If he doesn’t grow up, the last option is far more likely than the first.
Borghi has an uphill battle. Not many UDFAs make it, but he probably picked the right situation with the Colts. He’ll have to get over the tentativeness he showed last season though - and fast. There’s not a lot of room on a roster for an RB who can’t run between the tackles.
CJ signed with the Jets. Congratulations to him! My daughter is friends with him...says he's a really good guy.
www.newyorkjets.com
Jets Sign WR Calvin Jackson, OL Derrick Kelly
Green & White Also Waive TE Brandon Dillon, WR D.J. Montgomery
And Travell Harris signed with the Browns. If he can unseat the return man, he might have a shot
I'd love to see Borghi max an NFL roster, his biggest problem throughout his career is the injury bug, if he can stay healthy he has a chance. He had injuries in HS, missed most of the covid year with back issues, ankle at the NFLPA bowl.
Which just goes to show, semi prove the point that IF IF IF the draft hadn't taken primarily defensive players over offensive players, first 3,4 rounds, AND IF IF IF the WR class hadn't been so extremely deep, competitive, good, at the same time, that the WR demand up, Travell Harris and Calvin Jackson would have been drafted in the 6th, 7th round, and because they would have been good enough to be drafted, IF those circumstances had happened, they then demonstrated that by signing undrafted free agent contracts.
Brock Purdy, a NFL QB, was drafted Mr Irrelevant(pretty much same as not being drafted(would have signed a undrafted free agent contract had gone undrafted), and would have gone rounds 5,6, if the draft hadn't drafted primarily defensive players over offensive players, first 4 rounds.
Purdy, Harris, Jackson were pretty much in similar situations.
But oh no Purdy, Harris, Jackson are not NFL players, are not, were not draft worthy.
Yeah right.
But oh no some can continue to be illogical, and say that Purdy, Harris, Jackson, wouldn't have been drafted, etc
Your news made my point nicely.
Not IF he can unseat. Harris is one of the most electric Kick Returner, Punt Returners, that was eligible for the draft.
And if the guy in front of him is one of the better, best returners in the NFL, then Harris would eventually find a place as a Returner on some other team.
I fear for his health. There's a part of me that hopes he washes out and gets on with his life instead of destroying his body for practice squad money.
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