You know who else were FREAKS? Guys like Andre Johnson, Calvin Johnson, Patrick Willis, Adrian Peterson, Tommie Harris, Haloti Ngata, Chris Johnson, Vernon Davis, Kellen Winslow, Julius Peppers, Dwight Freeney, Mario Williams, Champ Bailey, Nnamdi Asomugha, LaRon Landry, Sean Taylor, etc.
You think I couldn't go on for an hour naming players that people have attempted to defend at one point or another as just a "football player"?
Matt Roth was just a football player. Bill Swancutt was just a football player. Rocky Calmus was a football player. Rashaun Woods was a football player. Graham Harrell was a football player. Cedric Cobbs was a football player.
It's all bull ****. No matter how much people TRY and paint it like there's some magic formula for finding great NFL prospects, there damn well isn't. It's all individual player evaluation. All of it. So and so might be a FREAK, and end up a good NFL player. So and so might be a football player with terrible tangibles and end up a good NFL player too. These are humans, not playing cards. Humans are the most complicated phenomenon on the planet. They can't be summarized and amalgamated, themed and strategized. At least not accurately.