Cranx
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That logic simply does not work since a player who has been out of football for several years will not garner the same kind of attention and draft status as he did prior to his leaving the game. Henson will have been out of football for close to four years by the time this season rolls around and there is no way that any team would take a flyer on this guy in the first round, especially not in the top 10! Even if he decided to declare his love for football today and decided to enter the draft, he would be no better than a third round pick due to the fact that he's exceptionally rusty, scouts have no way to evaluate his current football talent level since they will have no recent tape of him playing, and there's no telling whether or not he still has the same kind of football talent he once had.
The best example I can give of this is Dave Ragone. Here's a guy who was a consensus top 5 pick last year. He likely would be a Lion right now in lieu of Joey Harrington because he was considered that good. He decided to forego the draft and return for his senior year and he is now projected as a mid second rounder to an early first. Even though everyone knows that he can play and that he was playing behind what was possibly the worst O-line in the country last year, he is still no longer near the commodity he once was.
The same will be true of Henson. He is not top 10 talent anymore, and he is certainly not worth wasting anything but a 7th round pick on in this year's draft.
