Crayton is 26?

[bbgun]

He was drafted last year. Shouldn't he be 23 or so? Why do we keep drafting old rookies like him and Newman?

 

[FRDRCK]

Tyson Thompson is 24

 

[sago1]

You take good players where you can find them after all Crayton was only a 7th round draft pick. Back in 67/69 we wasted a 10th draft pick on a QB we didn't even know would ever play for us. 5 years later he started playing for us at about 27; turned out to have a pretty good career in the NFL.

 

[dougonthebench]

You take good players where you can find them after all Crayton was only a 7th round draft pick. Back in 67/69 we wasted a 10th draft pick on a QB we didn't even know would ever play for us. 5 years later he started playing for us at about 27; turned out to have a pretty good career in the NFL.

you're talkin about Staubach right?He was drafted in the 10th round 1964.(looking at the back of his rookie card.)

 

[silver]

We've had a bunch of problems with youn immature players (Derek Ross, Antonio Bryant, Kareem Larrimore) that the front office is going out of their way to avoid them.

 

[FolsomCowboy]

He was drafted last year. Shouldn't he be 23 or so? Why do we keep drafting old rookies like him and Newman?

I'm gonna go out on a limb here but I think we draft them because the scouting department and coaches think they have a shot of contributing to the team. I'd rather have a 26 year old 7th round draft pick who is gonna contribute, than a 22 year old 7th round draft pick who will do squat. Plus in the era of free agency, you need guys to produce now, you typically dont get to develop players.

 

[AbeBeta]

Yes, we wouldn't want to waste a 7th round pick on someone because he was 3 years older than we would like - very few rookies make it more than 5 years anyway so what does it matter?

 

[bbgun]

What accounts for the age gap? What happened in those missing years? Academically ineligible? Family tragedy? What?

 

[Muhast]

Well if he is like me, I graduated 18, turned 19 this summer. So if I go all 4 years i'd be 23 when i graduated, after 1 pro season i'd be 24. Hmm I dunno what happened. he is old

 

[jay cee]

Well if he is like me, I graduated 18, turned 19 this summer. So if I go all 4 years i'd be 23 when i graduated, after 1 pro season i'd be 24. Hmm I dunno what happened. he is old

He was probably more like my little boy. His b-day is sept. 26, so he could not start kindergarten until he was a little more than a month shy of his 6th birthday.

He will turn 19 right after he starts college, so if he is an athlete and has a redshirt season or something, he would be an older rookie if he was to become a professional athlete.

 

[speedkilz88]

Crayton had academic problems and was out of football until NW OK St. was looking for a cb and Crayton's former coach recomended him. He ended up playing WR, QB, and handled all their STs duties instead.

 

[jay cee]

Crayton had academic problems and was out of football until NW OK St. was looking for a cb and Crayton's former coach recomended him. He ended up playing WR, QB, and handled all their STs duties instead.

thanks speed. I think this guy will play in the NFL for the next 7 or 8 years, and look how close he came to never making it. There's probably thousands of guys who were good enough to play in the NFL, but never made it.

 

[Irving Cowboy]

you're talkin about Staubach right?He was drafted in the 10th round 1964.(looking at the back of his rookie card.)

Correct. Staubach was a 27 year old rookie when he came to the Cowboys in 1969. I'd say he paid some pretty good dividends for the Cowboys.