FSU football: Lessons learned from 2021 NFL Draft
By Kelvin Hunt
College football is essentially multiple job interviews for the NFL. Do you remember applying for a job and listing your credentials and the job requiring references?
The employer will look at what you’ve accomplished and then call those references to see what kind of person you are.
They could ask what your character is like? They might ask if you consistently show up for work? Can you be counted on when the going gets tough? Will they work within the confines of a team?
Will, you quit if things don’t go your way? Are you selfish or whine and complain when things don’t go your way?
Guess what? These NFL teams ask the same things and guess who those references are whether the player wants them to be the references or not?
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The coaches they play for every Saturday. I remember my college baseball coach having this exact conversation with our team when I was a freshman in 1996, and he was absolutely right.
I had some folks asking how a couple of standout players didn’t get drafted over the last few days. It was a combination of things. At the end of the day, it was enough for teams to decline to invest millions of dollars into those players. Would you spend big money on a car with a suspect performance rating?
Those teams took the low-risk route by signing them as undrafted free agents. Think of it as a probationary period at a new job. Now it’s up to those players to prove themselves worthy of making the roster to reap the benefits of that contract beyond the guaranteed signing bonus. They are still interviewing for the job.