re: Maurice Hampton

I have no clue why he dropped so far. This last update is primarily about senior film and the all-star events. He won Mr. Football for his class division in TN. He also was selected and participated in Under Armour all star events.

For the people mentioning he may have dropped due to his MLB projections, Jerrion Ealy is a higher rated MLB prospect and more likely to go that direction, he moved up their rankings.

Couldn’t he still sign with the baseball program even without playing football here?

I think that’s the point whitefoot is trying to make.
Or I may be wrong. This is getting confusing.

What if we had a chance at getting a good OL/DL?
Would we still be signing hm?

Hampton stated that he wanted to wait until February so he could with the rest of his high school teammates.

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it’s gonna be hard for him to turn down low first, early second money

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This statement is full of nothing considering we don't know what kind of money he's looking for or what the slot numbers for the draft yet.

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This statement is full of nothing considering we don't know what kind of money he's looking for or what the slot numbers for the draft yet.

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I mean, you have a general range, right? It’s not gonna be 30k or something

The film I saw on this kid is impressive at WR/DB. He's quite an athlete.

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I have a baseball agent in my family, he doesn't think Hampton gets drafted anywhere near as high as this board does

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The people on this board won't listen to that. Most of them prefer to stay woefully ignorant to the way the MLB draft works.

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he doesn't think Hampton gets drafted anywhere near as high as this board does

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Where would he need to get drafted to be unlikely to go to MLB?

If I'm reading this correctly, it appears that only 4 players picked in the top 10 rounds did not sign last year.
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Any mock draft that's actually out right now should just be disregarded. They're clickbait only.

Any rankings out right now should be taken with a grain of salt. We're still 6 months out from the actual draft.

As you get closer to the draft, the rankings will reflect talent, the (educated) mock drafts will build in signability.

The things we don't know at this time:
-Slot values
-bonus pools
-Hampton's ask

Hampton's rawness as a baseball player will drop him. Buying a kid out of a college commitment can raise the price for some prospects. Typically buying a kid out of a football commitment costs even more. Him signing a football LOI locks in that leverage to ask for more.

We still would have to learn who actually would pick him and compare his number to their bonus pool and their appetite to exceed that pool, their other draft picks and their asks, and other external factors that aren't apparent right now.

Also, who knows what kind of affect the Kyler Murray situation will have on teams looking to draft two sport athletes.

Anyone claiming anything definitive right now is full of shite. There are far too many unknowns. The biggest unknown is what amount is he looking for. If it's more than $2MM, he's going to have to get drafted by the first half of round 2 or get drafted by a team with a ton of extra picks (and extra pool $) to work with.

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That gets said about every high profile kid every single year. Hell, we have about 8 guys on the baseball team right now that were "never coming to campus."

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Gotcha. But, hopefully, you can now see why we, the ignorant masses, are easily swayed when it comes to this. It's not that we don't want to listen...it's that we don't know who to listen to, or what to believe.