Sam was rated at the bottom of the combine. He only placed ahead of a few QBs, I believe. His D MVP is meaningless when you consider Heisman winners have also been drafted in the later rounds or undrafted period. And now to hear him say he should have been drafted higher? C'mon, man. You are NOT that talented.
I don't care that he's gay. If he can play ball, fine. But the reason he slid down the draft order isn't because of his sexuality. Its because he lacks talent at the NFL level. AS an MSU Alum, I'm pissed that 3 more talented athletes and better football players didn't get drafted AT ALL, and this guy did.
Pundits like Peter King and the like made this all about his sexuality- not his football talent. THAT is the problem.
Rush was right about McNabb. It was about his skin color, not his talent as a QB. We see it again with Sam.
Players with talent that don’t get drafted get signed as UDFA’s (Undrafted Free Agents) and each team signs about a dozen or so UDFA’s right after the draft with the hopes of finding a diamond in the rough, so if any NFL teams felt there were more talented players than Sam, they could easily sign them as an UDFA so it’s not like Sam took away anyone’s chance to play.
If a team had a player on their board but didn’t draft him, then they offer him a UDFA contract.
Just because someone isn’t drafted doesn’t mean they are not allowed to play in the NFL.
Kurt Warner was never drafted, yet he was a two-time league MVP as well as a Super Bowl MVP and took two of the leagues worst franchises to the Super Bowl, winning SB 34 in 2000 when a year before, no one outside of the Rams and their fans had ever heard of him.