Red flags pre-draft (immature, combative with coaches/team mates, lacked discipline, poor decision making) was the reason fell out of the 1st rd. and surely pulled from a lot of teams' boards. And predictably, carried into his NFL career (before it even started):
- Just drafted, a few days out from going to his first training camp...he decided to race around on an ATV without a helmet and crashed. Red flag: Bad decision making skills.
- Months later, when he should be resting his friggin neck/head, he gets arrested for disorderly conduct and instead of cooperating with police:
"Officers struggled to subdue McDowell, according to the report.
'I repeatedly had to give him instructions and at one point he threw himself down on the ground in a tantrum,' one of the officers wrote in the report. 'He immediately accused me of stealing money from him, while I began to search his person, before placing him inside my vehicle, as we are trained to do. I tried to reason with him but to no avail.'
Another officer wrote that he pulled out his pepper spray before McDowell calmed down. "
^^^^Any of those previous red flags showing up again?
