So earlier this week Jim Tressel announced that 5 Juniors had submitted paperwork to the NFL draft advisory board to get the evaluation on their draft chances. This isn’t really anything new as it is a time honored tradition at Ohio State and every other University in the country. What was shocking was that Tressel refused to announce who those 5 players were. Speculation ran rampant in some circles that Terrelle Pryor is one of those players (I hope he did) and that Tressel may be trying to shield TP from the obvious questions for the next 2 weeks leading up to the Sugar Bowl. Thanks to El Kaiser and his broad use of Twitter we were able to find out 3 of the 5 players and one who 100% didnt send in the paper work.
Here is a list of those we know who did and the one we know who didn’t.
DID– Mike Brewster, DeVier Posey, and Boom Herron.
DID NOT– Nate Williams (He said he didn,t care what they said because he is 100% coming back next year).
So that leaves 2 juniors who did submit the paperwork but haven’t stepped up to say it was them so lets speculate. I think it was probably TP and Mike Adams. Although I also think J B Shugarts might also be a culprit.
In the end dont fret too much every year they do this to gauge where they might get drafted and what they could get better at to improve their draft status. I don’t think any of these guys would leave early or are even close to being a top 3 rounds draft choice which is where Tressel advises all his juniors to leave if they reach that level of draft chances. I think Posey is the best chance to leave no matter what his draft report says. I think if TP did submit his paperwork it wont matter I believe him the dozen times I heard him say 110% done deal he will be back for his senior year.
So I ask you fellow Buckeye fans these questions……
1.) Who do you think are the other 2 players who submitted paperwork?
2.) Of all the juniors whom do you think may leave early and where will they get drafted?