Draft Day Debate: Miles Austin vs. Dez Bryant

July 8, 2010   ·   Dynasty League Football   ·   Jump to comments

As of today, gone are the pre-draft concerns that plagued Dez Bryant before ultimately being selected 24th overall by the Dallas Cowboys.  Whether you believe the criticisms of his work ethic, maturity and decision making are justified or not, it is always safe to assume that those players at the top of teams’ draft boards will be the focus of NFL-style smear campaigns with the goal of dropping value or feigning lack of interest.  After famously passing on Randy Moss in the 1998 NFL draft, you could be sure that Jerry Jones would not repeat history should Bryant have fallen to him, as he did.
Fast forward to today and those same criticisms have now been replaced with talk of the dynamic play making ability that saw Bryant, almost unanimously, as the top collegiate wideout in the nation.  While not typical of our Draft Day Debate series of articles, in which we analyze and compare closely-valued rookies, the Austin-Bryant comparison isn’t without it&rsquo...

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