NinerRider
05-03-2006, 10:43 AM
You know, it seems as if teams are focusing on the PF position when looking for basketball players that could possibly make the transition to the NFL since Julius Peppers, Tony Gonzalez and Antonio Gates all played PF. The trend continued this past weekend with Jai Lewis, Ed Nelson and the guy we picked up from Long Beach St, they were all PFs I believe.
I think scouts should take good looks at PGs and SGs as well. PGs with their speed,quickness and court vision would make nice RBs/S. Average height for PGs in college is probably 5'10 - 6-2 which would be ideal for a RB or S. PGs at 5'9-5'11 with exceptional quickness could have Steve Smith like ability at WR or maybe even be a good DB.
Shooting guards possess good speed and are usually the best athletes on the court. With their athleticism, jumping ability there could be a few Randy Moss/TO type WRs out there. SGs usually are about 6'2 to 6'6, which fits the new trend of big WRs that teams are looking for. Randy Moss and Terrell Owens were excellent high school basketball players, TO even played hoop in college but he wasn't anything special. Now imagine a SG that had better basketball skills than TO in college, but wasn't good enough to make the NBA, don't you think that type of player would have the potential to do TO type things in the NFL?
At Small Forward you may be able to find a guy at 6'5 or 6'7 that could play some DE possibly OLB, of course it'd have to be a rather built SF and not the usually skinny tweener types you see these days in basketball.
I just think it would be a good idea to expand the scouting of NCAA basketball players. Remember, most college athletes were 2 or 3 sport stars in high school so I'm sure lots of basketball players were also stars in football but just chose to focus on one sport in college. Lebron James was an All-State WR as sopomore.
Maybe someone can shoot this idea to McLoughan or something.
I think scouts should take good looks at PGs and SGs as well. PGs with their speed,quickness and court vision would make nice RBs/S. Average height for PGs in college is probably 5'10 - 6-2 which would be ideal for a RB or S. PGs at 5'9-5'11 with exceptional quickness could have Steve Smith like ability at WR or maybe even be a good DB.
Shooting guards possess good speed and are usually the best athletes on the court. With their athleticism, jumping ability there could be a few Randy Moss/TO type WRs out there. SGs usually are about 6'2 to 6'6, which fits the new trend of big WRs that teams are looking for. Randy Moss and Terrell Owens were excellent high school basketball players, TO even played hoop in college but he wasn't anything special. Now imagine a SG that had better basketball skills than TO in college, but wasn't good enough to make the NBA, don't you think that type of player would have the potential to do TO type things in the NFL?
At Small Forward you may be able to find a guy at 6'5 or 6'7 that could play some DE possibly OLB, of course it'd have to be a rather built SF and not the usually skinny tweener types you see these days in basketball.
I just think it would be a good idea to expand the scouting of NCAA basketball players. Remember, most college athletes were 2 or 3 sport stars in high school so I'm sure lots of basketball players were also stars in football but just chose to focus on one sport in college. Lebron James was an All-State WR as sopomore.
Maybe someone can shoot this idea to McLoughan or something.