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Barely competent is a bit harsh. He was SEC Defensive Player of the Year. The kid could play in the best conference in college football. But a lot of great college players aren’t a great fit for the NFL. But to say “barely competent” is pretty ridiculous.

Indeed, it is harsh. I know of one case where a player was drafted from a very unknown college so he didn't even play in one of the big conferences.

Still, I heard some sort of rundown on Sam's stats, his more stellar games were against teams like Vanderbilt I think I heard but he did have a top play in the Cotton Bowl, I guess the Tigers may have won with help of that play.

This ain’t your grandfathers Vandy. They were a good team last year. Beat UGA at home and went to another bowl game.

Sam had 3 sacks against Vamdy. 3 more against Florida (they were ranked in that game and before they imploded) and had three tackles for loss against South Carolina when they were a top 10 team.

And there are dozens of players from small schools in the NFL. That’s no surprise at all.