Brock Lesnar NFL Update

[MikeVic]

Link

http://www.startribune.com/stories/510/4802803.html

I'm not sure how reliable this site is, so if someone knows this site lies or something... ignore the link.

This article contains some info. on what teams are interested in Brock, and how he's coming along in working out. Looks like teams will be trying him out late in June.

[MikeVick7]

It's the Minneapolis newspaper...so it's about as reliable a newspaper can get.

[cthomer5000]

Dungy specifically mentions D-line in there, and I think DE would have to be what we're talking here. His size is perfect for it.

It'll be interesting to see what happens.

[nfg22]

He looks promising but his volatility is high in my opinion(in FOF terms.) He is 290 and has run as fast as 4.5 the minneapolis paper quoted his agent saying. this was before his accident. they expect a 4.7 now and that is fast for a DE with a 33 inch vert at that size is great. but he hast played past the highschool level and if he is so great I dont know why he didnt garner attention before this, He will either be great or be a flop, ill bet on the latter seeing as minnesota things have a way of flopping.

[Mota]

Bah, he might be in good shape, but he's got no college or NFL experience. He will be practice trash for a couple years at least before he can contribute. It's sad because he was doing really well in pro wrestling. Guess it didn't have enough (or any) credibility for him.

[Lathum]

I really hope this idiot doesn't take a spot away from some rookie free agent who busted his ass for 4 years to mabye have a chance.

[mckerney]

Originally Posted by MikeVic

I'm not sure how reliable this site is, so if someone knows this site lies or something... ignore the link.

It's the Red Star Tribune, they generally don't lie in the sports pages.



If you're reading anything from the Pioneer Press sports pages, make sure it's not from Charley Walters before taking it too seriously though. It seems like that guy makes up half his rumors.

[cthomer5000]

Originally Posted by nfg22

if he is so great I dont know why he didnt garner attention before this,

Did you read the article? Tony Dungy talked about how he tried to sign him out of college.

[MikeVic]

Originally Posted by Lathum

I really hope this idiot doesn't take a spot away from some rookie free agent who busted his ass for 4 years to mabye have a chance.

I think he's being given the same opportunity that every other player gets. IF he makes it over a rookie free agent, doesn't that mean he deserved to?

Originally Posted by Mota

Bah, he might be in good shape, but he's got no college or NFL experience. He will be practice trash for a couple years at least before he can contribute. It's sad because he was doing really well in pro wrestling. Guess it didn't have enough (or any) credibility for him.

He says in this article (and other various articles I've read) that the schedule was too hard on him. He has a young child, and being home for maybe 100 days out of the year was hard on him and his family. He could be lying, but I think this is the reason why he left wrestling.

[JeeberD]

hxxp://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/lesnar1.html

Brock Lesnar, the World Wrestling Entertainment champion, was once arrested for illegally possessing steroids, though the felony charge against the 26-year-old athlete was dismissed four months after his January 2001 arrest. Lesnar, pictured in the below mug shot, was popped by Louisville Division of Police detectives after receiving and opening a parcel that cops said contained a "large amount of steroids." Lesnar, a 295-pound former college wrestling champ, was in Kentucky training at a WWE facility. Hit with a trafficking in controlled substances charge, Lesnar was exonerated when tests showed that the seized pills were not, in fact, steroids. While a Louisville detective told TSG that the material was some kind of growth hormone, Lesnar's defense attorney, Scott Cox, characterized the confiscated pills as a "vitamin type of thing." According to Cox, officers seemed "very apologetic" when lab results cleared Lesnar. It is unclear how investigators concluded that the parcel sent to Lesnar may have contained illicit substances.


Just a little something to think about...