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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
I think your percentages are off. The margin of skill is so slim in the NFL, that 80 percent of a guy who was viewed as a top 15-20 pick is not even a practice squad guy.
The percentage differences in skill or speed from NFL stars and NFL never-gonna-make-its is SMALL.
Let's use speed as an easy example. If you're a WR or RB or CB or S who runs 4.4, you're fast enough to be in the NFL. But if your speed is 80 percent of what it was, you're now a 5.28 guy and probably not a football player past high school. If your speed is 90 percent of what it was, you're now a 4.84 guy and definitely not jumping from college to the NFL (and probably were a walk-on or fringer roster guy at the college level).
Guys that lose 5 percent of their physical abilities are guys that start to slide out of the league.
Simmons needs to come back at 95 percent of what he was, or better, to really even have a chance to stick in the NFL.
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I feel like you're pissing into the wind on this one...
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