MSU Football Player That Didn't Make it in the Pros.
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At least Tommy Kelly is still blowing mother17ers up in the NFL. I bet he makes it rain in da club.</p>
Seems like he got hurt his first year playing for the Dolphins and never got over it. Browns moved him to fullback since he had lost some speed because of it.
He had had a great SOPH season in Bob Tyler's last year and caught a lot of passes. Then Emory Bellard installed the wishbone for his JR season and he didn't catch many passes. So Bellard modified the wishbone into the wingbone with Mardy as the wingback for his SR season. Before the season Bellard said, "We may not can throw it to him, but we can damn sure hand it off to him."
Olanda Truitt
- We haven't had many leave early. And if they did, I thought they'd be sure things. Truitt was a one-and-done JUCO transfer. He played some in the NFL (Raiders? Redskins?) but didn't really amount to anything in my recollection.
Robert Bean
- Played some but never became a consistent starter.
- We haven't had many leave early. And if they did, I thought they'd be sure things. Truitt was a one-and-done JUCO transfer. He played some in the NFL (Raiders? Redskins?) but didn't really amount to anything in my recollection.
Robert Bean
- Played some but never became a consistent starter.
But was off by the time training camp got started good. I was told that they worked him out on KR/PR and got hit about twice and couldnt take it.
He even started about 10 games. He was cut this year, played in the UFL, and was then picked up by the Panthers.
And in response to the post about Fitz -- he was expected to make the Jets roster, but had a shoulder injury during the pre-season and was cut.
My vote goes to Pegues. He never even signed with anyone. I at least expected him to sign as an undrafted f/a and get cut before the season.
And in response to the post about Fitz -- he was expected to make the Jets roster, but had a shoulder injury during the pre-season and was cut.
My vote goes to Pegues. He never even signed with anyone. I at least expected him to sign as an undrafted f/a and get cut before the season.
Connor Stephens fell out of love with football during the 2001 football season.He indicated with all the juco players that came in, the chemistry was shot and fights broke out about every day. We had a lot of conversations on this at his house. He was head over hills in love with a member of the volleyball team and followed her around a little after school and the NFL training camps. Football was a way for him to make it and he would be a millionare right now if he only wanted it. I found it hard to believe until I asked him why he didn't make a career playing football.
Titus Brown is on Cleveland's practice squad. I'd go with Pegues. I saw several different mock drafts that had him in the 2nd-3rd round. If he would have came out after his junior year, the year we won the Liberty Bowl, he woulda been drafted. It seems like once he got suspended for the LA Tech game his senior year, which we subsequently lost, he never returned to form. He has a bad year, we have a bad season, and he drops out of the draft. Still figured he would have signed somewhere though
I know he made some big interceptions in his career...more due to bad passes and being out of position than anything else, though. But he always looked like he reacted a step slower than other starting defensive backs and didn't seem to know how to play in man at all. And as many opportunities as he had to lay the wood to people, he never really did it...even that shot in the '07 Auburn game could have been 10x more woody if he'd squared up.
On that subject, we wasted that kid. He was 100% pure offensive playmaker that somehow got stuck at DB. Pegues as the triggerman in a Paul Johnson option offense would have been unstoppable. Or at least less stoppable than the Dixon-or-bust O we perfected under Woody & Croom.
On that subject, we wasted that kid. He was 100% pure offensive playmaker that somehow got stuck at DB. Pegues as the triggerman in a Paul Johnson option offense would have been unstoppable. Or at least less stoppable than the Dixon-or-bust O we perfected under Woody & Croom.