SUPERFANTASTIC GINORMOUS HOLY CAPTAIN NEMO BATMAN NEWS from the NFL Draft world today.
Mel Kiper Jr. dropped Jameis Winston 22 spots on his Big Board from #3 to #25 overall for the 2015 NFL Draft. Stop the presses!
I’ll give you a moment to collect yourselves.
Kiper went on SportsCenter to explain the decision and said that Winston needed to mature and grow to the point where he can be trusted to be the face of an organization. Predicatbly, this earth-shattering development is getting the full ESPN Echo Chamber treatment as Kiper’s dropping of Winston is being treated as a major news story.
Going beyond the ridiculousness of Mel Kiper’s draft board as a news story in September, how does someone quantify the negative impact on someone’s draft stock of shouting an obscene internet meme on top of a table at the student union? Of course Winston’s character issues will see his draft stock fall under closer scrutiny, but why 22 spots? Why not 12? Why not 2?
Additionally, Kiper didn’t feel like the sexual assault allegations or the shoplifting or any of those other issues were serious enough questions of Winston’s character to drop him down his mythical board… but standing up on a table and shouting an internet meme was? That’s the final straw!? None of this makes sense.
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