re: Players that may come back for one last year

Reid fell off due to losing his surrounding cast of BT18 and TM7. I think Wing fell off because he was reading his own clippings and playing the rockstar persona. Mingo is still a bit raw.

I can't understand why a punter would want to leave early. It's not like his draft potential is ever going to get better or worse, and there's no guarantee you're going to walk into the league and take one of only 32 spots on planet earth reserved for punters. Assuming no financial hardship, why not just play football and enjoy college? The league will be there when you're a senior.

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Wing is a virtual lock to leave. He does not exactly love school, and the league already knows how good he is despite a relative off year (which was still pretty damn good by anyone else's standards--finished #8 nationally in net punting, despite losing his snapper and two stud gunners). He is unlikely to improve his stock by coming back; as a punter he kind of is what he is already. May as well start earning that paper ASAP. I have seen where some scout said he might go as high as 3rd-4th round.

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Thank you!!!

So many ignorant statements earlier in this thread. Wing had a bad year??? Really, look at the numbers. He hit about 3-4 bad punts all year. He didn't have as many punts downed inside the 5 yard line this year because the gunners couldn't get down the field quick enough to stop the ball.

Wing is uber-talented with what he can do punting the football. He does more than just kick it as far as he can each kick. He can angle kick, he can kick it high and short, he can boom it when backed up deep in his own territory. He's very good at kicking the ball to a place where the returner can't make a play on the ball.

If the dude doesn't like going to class, might as well start getting paid in the NFL.

Does anyone else feel like Loston has been here for 8 years?

Without looking at any posts here besides the OP's....

I could see Logan, Minter, Simon, Wing, and Ford coming back.

I will be surprised to see Mingo, Reid, Ware, or Montgomery back.

Minter has a good chance to go pro this year. The reason I think he comes back is that with the Chief, you know from years past he can really churn out some great LBs, and Minter can be the best we've had in a few years if he comes back. Also, if Simon goes pro, it'll blow my fricking mind. It's true, it was me earlier in the season saying how few times I've heard his name called, and how that's a great thing, but he's not a PP7, HB7, or Claiborne type of talent that should bolt early.

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He's probably the least ready of those guys with the option of leaving IMO

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Agrred, would figure Reid and Simon would be swapped on that list.

Mingo
Logan
Johnson
Rasco

Barrow
Minter
Kwon

Collins
Reid
Loston
Mills


that's a bad arse defense right there

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don't normally fap to this stuff, but I would make an exception if this were next year's starting 11:

Montgomery
Logan
Johnson
Rasco

Mingo
Minter
Alexander

Simon
Reid
Martin
Mills

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Geez dude, you're still stuck on Mingo at LB. He's not a 4-3 LB, it's not a hard concept to understand

Simon said he was staying per twitter

Wing is gone IMO per twitter