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

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Of this year's crop, I think Collins should stay. He plays a high value position that gets drafted high and this is his first year playing it at the college level. An extra year could greatly benefit him. Hill, Landry, Beckham, might as well go.

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He said the same thing, Collins would be smart to stay because with a good year "nothing to believe he won't" and staying healthy "again a risk but he feels it can be easy to calculate it" he should be an easy mid 1st rounder and that will be huge as to what he will probably be drafted this year if he does go. He stated it will really depend on how well Collins does in the combines. He completely understands if Hill goes and he truly recognizes the wear and tear on RB's and with Hill he said he probably will go and the agents will be all over him. But again he truly feels that Hill would be the 1st running back off the board next year, and he will not be this year. He feels if Hill were to stay healthy "obviously the risk" and with the O-Line LSU will probably have coming back that Hill will have a monster year and that could probably mean an extra $5-7million in money to him over the life of his first contract.

Regarding OBJ & Landry it is projecting but he just can't see their draft status improving with another year in school and an inexperienced QB at the helm. So he would advise them to go.