A decade of might have been..

[IUPNation]

Tell that to players like Michael Thomas, Ted Ginn, Cam Heyward, Zeke Elliot, Both Bosa's, Eddie George, etc. That's just off the top of my head...

It just Seems like the Suckeyes have big recruits who flame out all the time or wind up in jail.

Poor Idaho. I hope they at least enjoyed the rest of their time in the Happy Valley.

[IUP24]

He should have gone to Penn State. The Overrated State University is a curse.

Name the last Penn State player other than Saquan Barkley to be an offensive impact player in the NFL.

Penn State was never even in his Top 5 schools. He was down to Ohio State, Michigan, Pitt, West Virginia, and Oregon. The final two were Ohio State and Michigan. While he didn't actually go to Pitt and they never were in his Final 2 schools, many people still believe Pitt is the indirect reason as to why Pryor ended up at Ohio State. Most recruiting experts actually had him pegged to go to West Virginia. In 2007, Pitt beat #2 West Virginia in what is one of the biggest and most shocking upsets in the last 50 years of college football. Pryor was really tight with Rich Rodriguez, who bolted for Michigan after the loss to Pitt in the that year's Backyard Brawl. That essentially eliminated WVU from contention. Pryor did not graduate until the following year. But Michigan was not in a great place at that time post Lloyd Carr and at the beginning of the Rich Rod era. He went to Ohio State and had a good career there. I've always been fascinated at how the dominoes fall in recruiting and how certain players end up playing at a certain school due to a number of different events that happened.

Where Pryor truly went wrong was that he likely picked the wrong position to play in college. When he was coming out of high school, scouts thought he had NFL potential at 5 positions (QB, WR, TE, DE, and Safety). Had he honed his craft in college as a WR with his size and athleticism, he may not have bounced around as much. Others believe that his speed could have been deadly coming off the edge as a pass rusher in the right defense had he put on weight.

But to play in the league for the amount of time he has and to make 15 million, you can't say he failed as a pro. Not in the slightest.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Pryor has made $15m in his NFL career.

I'd guess he will be signed off the wire within a couple days (or certainly as injuries inevitability start to mount).

He wasn't the star many thought he'd be but from his childhood in a very rough part to Jeannette to $15m .... he's done real, real well.

[IUPTrackMan]

[IUPalum]

He should have gone to Penn State. The Overrated State University is a curse.

Tell that to players like Michael Thomas, Ted Ginn, Cam Heyward, Zeke Elliot, Both Bosa's, Eddie George, etc. That's just off the top of my head...

[IUPNation]

Noticed a name I hadn't seen for some time on today's cut list, Terrelle Pryor. JAGS released him today, the 9th team to do so since his arrival in the 3rd round of the supplemental draft by the RAIDERS. From the time he flip flopped on his choice of college, the Jeanette HS GOAT seemed to be on the wrong path making one bad move after another. Hard to say that things would have been better but playing BB for Jamie Dixon at Pitt could have put him on a different path. Don't know if a 30 year old jack of no trades gets another shot. Hope he saved his $$$.

He should have gone to Penn State. The Overrated State University is a curse.

[CALUPA69]

Noticed a name I hadn't seen for some time on today's cut list, Terrelle Pryor. JAGS released him today, the 9th team to do so since his arrival in the 3rd round of the supplemental draft by the RAIDERS. From the time he flip flopped on his choice of college, the Jeanette HS GOAT seemed to be on the wrong path making one bad move after another. Hard to say that things would have been better but playing BB for Jamie Dixon at Pitt could have put him on a different path. Don't know if a 30 year old jack of no trades gets another shot. Hope he saved his $$$.