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Saturday, February 21, 2009
No. 1 for Stafford? I don’t care
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I’m sorry, but I can’t really get too worked up about whether Matthew Stafford throws for the pro scouts or not and whether he goes No. 1 in the NFL draft.
I enjoyed watching him play for the Dawgs and I wish him well in his pro career. I’ll definitely follow his progress, though perhaps not with the same feeling as I would for a player who stuck around his full four years in Athens and accomplished a bit more.
If he goes No. 1, good for him (though I’m not sure it really will be good for him if that means he winds up in Detroit). If he doesn’t go No. 1 but still goes on to become a top-notch NFL quarterback, I doubt anyone will remember where he went in the draft. And if he’s a bust in the pros (unlikely as that seems), he’ll only get cited as one of those No. 1 draft picks that didn’t work out.
Aside from possibly padding Stafford’s bank account a bit more (and that of his agent), I can’t see where there’s that much of an up side to going No. 1.
OK, I recognize there’s maybe some sort of PR prestige from having a UGA player go first in the draft. But that and a buck and a quarter will get you a drink in one of the AJC’s new “high end” vending machines.
In other words, Stafford being drafted No. 1 won’t really do anything for the program he left behind in Athens.
And so it doesn’t really matter all that much to me.
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