He's an overhyped punk living off of ONE lucky game where he got held to nearly half his usual offensive output per game but because he caught a team coming off an emotional must-win game on the road and put together......you know.....a solid quarter of output against that team in their lair just by chance the first year his team was in a new conference with glossy coverage........
You know how I'm always saying to look closer than the hype? His record (basically) was 19-5 in two years as a starter. While that's not too bad......if you looked closer when he was playing you'd have noticed something:
2012
He beat lousy teams relatively easily
Auburn wasn't any good and neither was Arkansas.....or Ole Miss (and that one took a miracle).....the only really good team he beat was Alabama and sure he beat OU in the bowl game but other than Alabama in 2013 who HASN'T beaten OU in a bowl game in recent years?
2013
Again, go look at the schedule.....they lost to 11-win Alabama at home, survived 8-win Ole Miss and 9-win Vandy, and lost to 12-win Auburn, 10-win LSU, and 12-win Mizzou......and then needed a spectacular comeback to beat a mid-level Duke team with ten wins.
Sure, he was college level talent but so are a lot of guys. In all seriousness, he needs to divide up half his NFL salary and disperse it to the 11 Tide starting defenders from the 2012 team because without that one quarter I seriously doubt the hype machine puts him in the NFL in the FIRST round.
On a personal level of basic human decency, this is sad; as someone who watched this unfold and figured it was just a matter of time, this is sheer comedy. My fear is that this one is another Rae Carruth, Lawrence Phillips, Aaron Hernandez just waiting to happen and maybe worse since he comes from a wealthy family is liable to think he can buy his way out of a sentence.
I hope not for more than one reason - but it really wouldn't surprise me.