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Originally Posted by Ben E Lou
One other potential biggie for him in particular is that he's considered a 'tweener. What if it turns out he just doesn't cut it on the field? I think the fact that no one wants to be the team to cut the league's first openly gay player could also hurt his draft stock.
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Saw this with Notre Dame and Ty Willingham. No matter how many years later or how poorly he did at his next stop you still have people who believe ND fired him because he was black. Sometimes that knee-jerk rush to condemn any team as prejudiced and use one player as a referendum actually hurts the "oppressed" minority. If he doesn't get drafted at all, and a guy like Kerry Rhodes being out of a job looks pretty damning, but if he falls to, say, the 5th round? Because every team will pass over Sam at least once, and probably 2-3 times if not more, and at least early in the draft it will have nothing to do with sexual orientation. Sometimes players just fall - Vontaze Burfict always had the talent, had a phenomenally productive college career, but went all the way from 1st round pick to undrafted.