Making the Case For Brandon Graham

March 24, 2010   ·   Mark Novak   ·   Jump to comments

Every year players with freakish size, talent, and great upsides are selected in the NFL draft despite having questionable work ethics, criminal records, and occasionally three children by three different wives.
Coaches and GM’s go against their better nature when selecting these troubled but gifted athletes, and sometimes they are rewarded. Other times the problems cannot be nurtured out of these players and the problems continue, leading to an early exit from a league that seems to be created by the same guy who invented the revolving door.
Brandon Graham is not one of those players.
Brandon Graham enters the NFL draft with no off-field issues. He has a tremendous work ethic, a nonstop motor, and is as explosive off the ball as any NCAA DE in recent memory. Unfortunately, Brandon Graham stands only 6’2” and weighs a mere 270 pounds.
Although he leaves the collegiate ranks as a highly decorated defensive juggernaut— having been a First-team ...

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