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Monday, February 23, 2009
Will Crabtree's injury affect his draft status
I believe that Michael Crabtree will be just fine come draft day even though he has a hairline stress fracture in his left foot. He said he hurt it a couple weeks ago while training with ex- Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson. Crabtree found out about the injury this weekend when he arrived for the scouting combine even though he pulled out of that workout he has already stated he was going to hold off on surgery until after his pro day on March 26 because he feels no pain in the foot. With that being said I think if it had been me I would have ran at the combine got the surgery immediately after that and moved on with my ten weeks so hopefully I could be done by time rookie mini camps and ota's start. I still feel as though Crabtree is the best wide receiver if not the best player in this year's draft and regardless of his forty time i think he will still go high first round because he is a flat out beast of a ball player. Back to back Bilitnekoff winner as a red shirt freshman and sophomore, holds every receiving record in NCAA over that span of time 41 touchdowns in just 2 seasons. and I could go on and on. The scouts put to much emphasis on the measurable's of a player in my opinion so much stock is put into a forty time when speed doesn't necessarily make a great football player. That was proven with Anquan Boldin who ran a 4.7 forty and with Jerry Rice ran a 4.6 forty Chris Carter was a 4.59 4.6 guy so was Michael Irving and the list of great average speed receiver's goes on. But it is about game speed and that's what they all had and that's what Crabtree has.
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