For Scouts: Seeing Is Believing

By
for NFLSportChannel.com

Published: June 12, 2009

commentComment        

... having a great "supporting cast."

For NFL scouts, there is nothing amusing about it.

While most think of offense, lets look at defense. Lets also modify the term "supporting cast" for something more trivial.

How about the guy standing next to you.

In 2001, Ryan Sims and Julius Peppers stood side by side for North Carolina

At the University of Tennessee, it was Albert Haynesworth and John Henderson

Years later, North Carolina State really took the cake. They had four and three went on to be First-Round Picks—Mario Williams, Manny Lawson, and John McCargo. The fourth became a Third Rounder named Tank Tyler

This brings to mind some obvious questions.

Did Peppers make Ryan Sims look better than he really was?

Peppers was always doubled and sometimes even triple teamed in college. Sims wasn't.

At Tennessee, it was even more confusing. For Haynesworth and Henderson it wasn't a matter of whethe...

Read Complete Article at Bleacher Report - NFL
Article Source: BleacherReport.com


Comments