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Todd Gurley passes physical

YAJ2112 : 7/28/2015 2:43 pm
will start camp on active roster, not on the Non-Football Injury list.


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FF draft stock just rose  
superspynyg : 7/28/2015 2:46 pm : link
He should be a late 2 early 3rd round
Rams fans  
OC2.0 : 7/28/2015 2:56 pm : link
Finally have something to cheer about on O again.
Best wishes to him.  
section125 : 7/28/2015 3:09 pm : link
Hope he has a healthy career.
he  
area junc : 7/28/2015 3:24 pm : link
was the smokescreen the giants floated trying to get teams off the "scent of Flowers"
mayock and others thought we were taking Gurley
AJ: Mayock's final mock had NYG taking Scherff, Rams taking Flowers.  
Big Blue Blogger : 7/28/2015 3:32 pm : link
He had Gurley going to the Chargers at #17, as did Davis and Casserly.
nfl.com final mocks: Mayock and Co. - ( New Window )
scherff was gone  
area junc : 7/28/2015 3:37 pm : link
and then he had us taking gurley as did a bunch of other guys. there was a lot of gurley to the Giants talk starting a couple days before the draft
The curveball in that first round was Washington taking Scherff.  
Big Blue Blogger : 7/28/2015 3:43 pm : link
I can imagine the Redskin war room reaching a consensus on Leonard Williams. Then Snyder pulls off his sunglasses, raises an eyebrow and murmurs, "No... That's just what they'll be expecting us to do."

As the linked mock page shows, everyone and his sister had the Giants taking Scherff. Would they have taken him, or was Flowers the pick all along? Who knows? In any case, considering subsequent events, it's a good thing they didn't take Gurley - not that it ever seemed likely.
so glad  
area junc : 7/28/2015 3:48 pm : link
the skins didn't take williams. he's a great player
I think McShay was the first biggie to mock Gurley --> Giants  
Big Blue Blogger : 7/28/2015 3:56 pm : link
A lot of second-tier draftniks picked up his tune. As the draft approached, though, McShay joined the mainstream and consistently had NYG taking Scherff.

I don't remember every name the talking heads on ESPN linked to the Giants in the half hour or so between the Redskins taking Scherff and NYG going on the clock. It's only natural that Gurley would have been one of them, since he was the next player selected after the Giants took Flowers.

If there was a pre-draft smokescreen though, it was Scherff, because that's the guy everyone thought Reese would take. And we'll never know whether it was a smokescreen or a reflection of their actual board.

Gurley was just one name among many: White, Waynes, Peat, Parker, Beasley, Dupree, blah, blah, blah. Even Landon Collins (right team; wrong round).
In other words, the Giants may have blown smoke about Gurley...  
Big Blue Blogger : 7/28/2015 3:59 pm : link
...but not many people bought it - at least not for long.
BBB Sure sounded like the Giants would have taken Scherff  
Coach Mason : 7/28/2015 4:46 pm : link
over Flowers based on the tenor of the post-draft comments from the F.O.

I think Flowers has the higher upside and MAY become a franchise quality LT (something we haven't had since perhaps Jumbo) but is much less polished. In Lieu of Beatty's injury Scherff may have been the better fit at least short term.

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