re: Has JRussell's college career been dissed because of his NFL failure?

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JR's college career has always been misremembered and overrated in hindsight. It was a bad draft year and the idiot raiders have always been in love with the long ball. Notre dame's crappy defense made JR more money than anything. JR was ok but he was more of a 3rd or 4th rd project to anyone with a clue.

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Russell needed another year to perfect himself decent enough, but Russell was exactly what people draft in the first round. Aaron Rodgers had problems and was a first round pick. GB got him to develop him behind Favre. That's what should have happened to Russell. Drew Brees was another first round pick that had problems coming out and played terribly his first few years, but he had the talent.

Another thing people haven't brought up is Jimbo. I don't know what it is, but no Jimbo QB has been able to find his footing in the NFL despite MANY being selected in the first round. Winston, is a guy that still has major potential to become an elite QB, but Winston was a guy people talked about as already being a pretty damn polished football mind wise coming out of high school. Him, like Fields and Lawrence, and others, were considered guys that were just passing through college on to their destined first round status.