Will Size Stop Vernon Hargreaves from Reaching Elite NFL Potential?

February 28, 2016   ·   Sean Tomlinson   ·   Jump to comments

There’s a language tied to the NFL draft, and if you listen hard enough between the NFL Scouting Combine and the first round on April 28 (the unofficial tentpoles for draft season), you’ll start to speak it fluently.
Much of the industry-standard vernacular has been championed by NFL Network’s Mike Mayock over the years. You might get an offensive or defensive lineman to blush by saying he has a bubble butt. The same large men will grumble if you observe they’re not natural benders.
But one simple word is the most damning of all, especially if it’s used to describe a wide receiver or cornerback, two positions where size has increasingly separated premier players from the more pedestrian middle-tier talents.
That word? Small.
Being labeled as small sticks as a stinging insult. It’s a word that analysts dance around but don’t quite land on when taking a microscope to Vernon Hargreaves III, the former Florida Gators cornerback ...

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