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Originally Posted by staylor26
A healthy Simmons is better than any player that will possibly be available other than Nolen, who will also only be there for reasons other than football.
Some of you are just way too extreme with the anti-Simmons stuff. And I'm just not seeing it outside of CP. I'm starting to think we have some groupthink going on here.
It's one thing to be concerned about the injury and not wanting to take the risk. It's another to pretend he isn't a top 15 talent when healthy that has no business being available at 31 otherwise.
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The issue isn't talent. The issue is that he actually did get injured. He has a very severe injury when it comes to football. Sorry if talent gets trumped by the reality of the injury for many of us but it absolutely is an issue. The issue as a whole in the national media is that most of them don't know he had a patella tendon tear; you still have them regurgitating "ACL injury." I screamed from the mountain tops that it would be idiotic of teams to take a player in the 1st round, or even the 2nd, coming off an Achilles. That turned out to be spot on because none of them have produced anywhere near average. Taking Simmons coming off this injury is an enormous risk. It's not about what he was, it's about what he might be now. This injury healing has absolutely no bearing on that.