This. I bought, at a reasonable price, and am anticipating a possible low floor only including further suspension etc, but as far as ceiling and ability, top 10. This kid is super young, and again, missed a whole year of work/exp in college, and still came out and produced in a crappy offense with a rookie, albeit older, Qb.Chris_R wrote:How do we know he has questionable work ethic again? I'm starting to think maybe I'm missing something about Gordon this off-season that I need to be filled in on. If somebody can be out of college football for over a year(keep in mind when you aren't in the program it's incredibly hard to stay in shape, which is why guys like Dez, Mathieu, Big Mike Williams and others were out of shape by their pro days), miss all of OTA's and mini camps as a rookie, come in around Training Camp time, ascend up the depth chart and produce 50/805/5 as a 21 year old rookie, he would probably have to be one of the most physically talented players in the entire NFL. I mean come on, think about that for a minute.
So maybe someone could just explain that to me. A guy with a poor work ethic gets kicked out of school and becomes fat, lazy, slow, and out of shape. Especially for that length of time. He doesn't do what Gordon did at his age in that amount of time. I don't need any rumors or sources to put the pieces to that puzzle together.
To me the question is not work ethic on the field, lots of wrs especially have the diva mentality and let natural ability carry them, though that's not optimal of course, some guys really can just make it happen, but the question of staying out of trouble, as he is...21 years old. I think most of us can't say we were the model of perfect behavior at 21, and we dont have his money and celebrity to warp even further.
So if he can keep his head on it will only get better from here, if we extrapolate last season. This is risk/reward incarnate.