It looks like Woeful Weslye Saunders will enter the 2011 NFL Draft after all. Yesterday, ProFootballWeekly.com reported that the NFL announced that the former University of South Carolina tight end is eligible to be selected, changing its former stance of disallowing the player from being a part of the draft after he failed to file paperwork necessary for all football players who sit out their senior seasons yet want to retain draft eligibility.
This is certainly good news for Saunders and his agent Butch Williams, but I bet that it will not halt rival agents from throwing the mishap in Saunders’ face, hoping that he may eventually find himself on our “On To The Next One” feature. Furthermore, we still have no explanation for why Saunders has declined his official invite to the NFL Scouting Combine. He better hope that he has a stellar Pro Day, because it will be his only opportunity to prove his skills in front of all NFL scouts at the same time.
Update (3:03 p.m.) – Butch Williams has just informed me that Weslye Saunders will, in fact, be participating at the NFL Scouting Combine. Williams claims that Saunders never turned down his invitation, but that it was rescinded when the NFL initially declared Saunders ineligible for the NFL Draft. Now that he is draft eligible, he has once again been offered the opportunity to participate in the Combine. He is scheduled to report with the rest of the Tight Ends.
4 replies on “Woeful Weslye Saunders Now Draft Eligible”
Woefule Weslye Saunders? ouch lol
how come joe bick and nick swisher were not featured in ” On To The Next One”?
– bobby r.
I actually plan on writing about the switch to Lozano (ppl originally thought he changed to Boras).
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