Beast_from_East
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Until he is officially cleared of any involvement, I stay far away from this guy.
Yea i don't understand it. It's in his favor to atleast go undrafted and allow for a bidding war to happen for him this year. He will hurt his stock waiting a year to enter the draft.
I still take a flyer on him in the 7th. If he decides to not to re-enter in 2016 and if he is cleared of any wrong doing, we can flip him for a 1st round pick in 2016. Lots of "ifs", but the downside is minimal and the upside can potentially be huge.
And if he was completely innocent, he wouldn't be our topic of discussion. He would have been drafted already. I don't get it. Something is going on here.
If he is there in the 5th, I would select him. Somebody will select him in the 7th.
I believe according to the Collective Bargaining Agreement, the most an UDFA can get as a signing bonus is $10,000. Not much of a bidding war, and he has very little leverage.
What little I can find out is he supposedly hadn't seen Brittney Mills since September and she was killed by someone who she refused to let borrow her car. The cops have said he is a person of interest, not a suspect, however that is essentially meaningless. I know at least in some parts of the country once a person is named a suspect, law enforcement has to turn over all of the evidence it has against him to his lawyer, and they don't want to do that too soon for obvious reasons.
Even if he had an iron clad alibi, investigators would still want to interview him and anyone else who was close to her to try to get an idea of who might have had a motive to do harm to her. I find it puzzling that he hasn't talked to them yet, or at least it appears that way. Ian Rapoport said the police just wanted to talk to him about parental responsibility, but I think that is nonsense, although that is no doubt what they told him. In any case, I think the Cowboys should give this guy a wide berth if in fact he hasn't even talked to the police about the murder of his ex-girlfriend and maybe even his own child.
If you draft him at this point, you would have to negotiate with him and his agent ahead of time as he may never report and sign. My guess is he'll ask for first round money even after being drafted in the third day.
He has no leverage.
Problem is that we wouldn't either. We'd own his draft rights for the year, but if he really wants to work out his issues and not take lesser money, we'd basically whiff an entire pick.
My guess is he goes undrafted and reenters for 2016.
If he goes un-drafted and is then cleared, he will be able to negotiate with all teams. I'm not certain is player can reenter the draft the following year in the NFL. I know it happens in baseball and might have happened a long time ago in the NFL, but under the current CBA I don't know if it's even possible.
I'm certain that a team would be fine paying him the same that he would have received as a 1st round pick as a udfa. They would have had to pay him that much anyway and now can do it with using a draft pick. It's a bargain for the team. He might even get more than he would have if there is a bidding war.
If he is available in the 7th, I would draft him. If he is cleared, then pay him 2nd round money. It's not really that much anymore.