I certainly wasn’t talking about his character, all my thoughts on this board are about football only. I don’t know his ceiling, but the little I have seen from spring ball and HS tapes says he ain’t that good. I don’t know any players personally.
If we had to have a player give a eulogy It'd be DK. For QB he'd be 3rd/4th string.
If you've never coached a kid or had them in your classroom, you aren't qualified to say they suck. You can speculate that they aren't good enough to crack the two deep here or whatever, that's a fan observation and that's fine. Once we start saying that a redshirt freshman kid sucks having never coached them or know what their work ethic is, that's bullshit. I've known several players through the years. Some of them played at NU, some weren't good enough to play and had to move on. None of them "sucked." If I know a kid, I'm always gonna have their back.
You might well be correct. My ground is that if you don't know a kid, never coched them, never had them in your class, I don't stand idle when someone says they "suck." Not good enough to make the travel squad depth chart, that's one observation. Saying they outright suck, that's bullshit.
According to someone i trust, DK was progressing this year and looked pretty good in practice. Freshman certainly.
If your gauge of college success is going to the NFL, that’s not a fair assessment. Do you realize how few kids from P5 schools end up in the NFL? You hope when you take a Nebraska that he can be a multi-year contributor or starter. The NFL is a pipe dream. Thats why when our staff drops the ball on guys like Fant and Phillips it hurts so much. IF it’s between two 3 star developmental guys, I’m taking the Nebraska kid every time.
Well, suck is a relative term the way people use it in sports, yes?
DR is never going to be a runner, not even mobile, so I don't see what good taking off weight does besides likely hurting his best asset, his arm strength. Hope he gets better moving in the pocket, but mobility is not his forte.
To see if they are underrated in the process and are really 5.8s. With some kids in this State, I feel like they rate them like horror movies are rated. You will never see a horror movie obtain more than a 7.5/10 even if it's a clear 9.
It had nothing to do with lateef. You can think hes better, but lateef is not why dk is leaving.
If anything I think the weight may help his durability. I’ve heard multiple former NFL players say that carrying a little fat cushion helped prevent soft tissue injuries. I’m not talking about carrying an extra 25 lbs but an extra ten never hurt any player. Dylan isn’t fat.
One good game in 2 years and people think he's a heisman caliber player. Sounds like he wanted a bag (which I don't blame him) and mr/dh decided they could get better value for the money. Not a big loss imo. Princewell and Williams are bigger losses as good d-linemen are a lot harder to find than rb's.
He may not be fat, just like Tom Brady is not fat and is actually kinda jacked, but they both run like they're fat.
I agree best of luck. I’m more upset about losing others (e.g. EJ). I saw DK play about 5 times in HS. I don’t think he could ever be the starter at Neb. Jmo.
