The only guy who partially avoids that trap is NFL Network’s Mike Mayock. Though none of this means that Haden will be heading to the Hall of Fame 25 years from now, it does mean that the made-for-TV draftniks would be wise to apply a broader lens to the black-and-white absolutes they force feed us every year at this time. And he ended up being only the greatest player of all time at any position, and he’ll be joining the immortals in Canton later this year. With the made-for-TV draftniks so caught up in the number of can’t-miss prospects in an industry where history tells us that roughly half of them can and will, it’s jarring when they find fault with one of the guys destined to become an instant millionaire on April 22.īut there he is, ESPN’s junior-made-for-TV draftnik in the endless loop that is SportsCenter, telling the world that the defensive back who hurt himself the most on Tuesday was Florida’s Joe Haden, who required 4.57 seconds to run 40 yards in a straight line without pads on his body or a receiver in his crosshairs.Īnd so the junior-made-for-TV draftnik declared that Haden will “struggle” to make it into the top 10.Ī quarter-century ago, that same thinking applied to a certain receiver who required 4.5 8 seconds to run 40 yards in a straight line without pads on his body or a ball in the air.
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