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What is everyone's thoughts on drafting players who are requiring surgery and may need quite a few months of recovery time. You can normally snag them a round or two later and still have the earlier round potential. With us trying to lose a lot more games than we win this year, it would seem to be a good idea to take a flyer on a couple of these guys and let them sit most of the year and have them ready to go next year at full speed. I know that drafting players with an injury history is not usually a good idea, but I wasn't sure if someone who tore a muscle or injured something at the combine would really fit into that same box.
 
Cowboys lucked out doing it with Jaylon Smith, who had a really bad knee injury and nerve damage.

I could see the benefit of it. If a top-15 talent like Jeffery Simmons is there in the 20s after a potential trade down, I wouldn't be upset with the move.

But at the same time, a player starting their NFL career on the injury report doesn't seem like a great indicator of long-term success.
 
My preference is not to unless we're taking them no earlier than round 5. We've gotten free agents before that had injury history and that hasn't worked either and while this is a little different you're still taking a risk which is ok to do later but I'd not do it the first 2 days of the draft.
 
It worked with Smith and Myles Jack but I certainly wouldn't use a 1st or 2nd on Simmons when combined with his character issues ... which might be a thing of the past but punching women in the face isn't a great indicator of the guy not being a piece of ****. Pass for me until like the 4th or 5th.
 
Miami has never had a better situation then right now to take a risk on a really talented player that has slipped because of injury. There is no pressure to win immediately with this year's team.
 
Greer17 said:
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KBEE said:
This would be the year to do it, since we are really looking at 2020.
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rickd13 said:
Miami has never had a better situation then right now to take a risk on a really talented player that has slipped because of injury. There is no pressure to win immediately with this year's team.
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One of CBSsports mocks has us trading down with the Eagles and drafting injured Jeffery Simmons, DL, Mississippi State who is rehabbing a torn ACL. But with so many Edge rushers and D-linemen in this years draft I dont really see it happening, at least in round 1

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft...or-qbs-as-20-trades-struck-on-first-two-days/
 
SCLSU Mud Dogs said:
Cowboys lucked out doing it with Jaylon Smith, who had a really bad knee injury and nerve damage.

I could see the benefit of it. If a top-15 talent like Jeffery Simmons is there in the 20s after a potential trade down, I wouldn't be upset with the move.

But at the same time, a player starting their NFL career on the injury report doesn't seem like a great indicator of long-term success.
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Depends on the nature of the injury. Didn’t seem to affect Willis McGahee and he had a gruesome knee injury in the National title game.
 
If they are hurt coming out of college good chance they will get hurt in the NFL. Late flyers like 6th round or later in my draft.
 
We've done enough of that garbage in the past and where did it get us? A roster full of players who were always getting some type of injury.
 
Those who don't learn from history.....

This front office has been mortgaging the future for decades. Well, the future is here.

They have screwed up so poorly in coaching hires, contract management & personnel acquisition that there is little choice left than to scrap all of those ridiculous contracts and overpriced FA's.

Now all we can do is see if Chris Grier has been being ignored for the last decade or so by the powers that be (have been) in Miami. Ross seems to think he was the only one whose plans made sense because he is still here. We'll see (not) soon enough.

They have been living on definition of insanity for far too long.

"Expecting people to be something they have never been".

Healthy, productive, reliable, smart, hard working, able to play a completely different position, etc. Time to start investing in people with the right tools and traits.

Work ethic, motor, conditioned, intelligent, mature, physical tools, size, consistent production, young.
 
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