re: Spoke with an NFL scout regarding early departures today.

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that 'hope' evaporate as the NFL Scouts raid the talent

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Well I guess you will have to have an NFL scout and a agent in the room and let them duke it out, because he squarely lays most of the blame on the agents.

He did say, the scouts, can't side step some of them blame but he explained it pretty simply. If you are an un-drafted underclassman free agent, he says, there is no way in hell an NFL scout had him drafted "in the best of cases" anywhere but the 6th or 7th round and he stressed "if that." He stated you can directly look at the agents on those cases if those players expected anything different. And if you are a mid to late round underclassman, he really would love to know exactly where the agent told the player he would be picked because for the most part he finds out, after they were picked, that their agents usually have given them advice they were going to get picked higher than what actually happens and where they are graded out to be from the NFL scouts.