Alshon Jeffery rumor <THREAD CLOSED>

[baarbogast]

" WR Alshon Jeffery, #SouthCarolina is training at St Vincents here in Indy. Sources say he's weighing 249lbs + running a 4.88 Forty#NFLDraft "

- Joe Everett

Michael Schottey @Schottey
Confirmed...Alshon Jeffery has been in Tampa since January 8th. IF he ran a 4.88 in Indianapolis, it was over a month ago.

Is there anything legal that Jeffery can do about this? It seems like a defamation of character and this may cost the guy $100’s/k in his contract.

[dapperdan]

Originally Posted by baarbogast

" WR Alshon Jeffery, #SouthCarolina is training at St Vincents here in Indy. Sources say he's weighing 249lbs + running a 4.88 Forty#NFLDraft "

- Joe Everett

Michael Schottey @Schottey
Confirmed...Alshon Jeffery has been in Tampa since January 8th. IF he ran a 4.88 in Indianapolis, it was over a month ago.

Is there anything legal that Jeffery can do about this? It seems like a defamation of character and this may cost the guy $100’s/k in his contract.

It's not going to cost him a penny for now. If he runs a 4.88 at the combined, then he's got problems.

[NYCsaint]

Originally Posted by baarbogast

" WR Alshon Jeffery, #SouthCarolina is training at St Vincents here in Indy. Sources say he's weighing 249lbs + running a 4.88 Forty#NFLDraft "

- Joe Everett

Michael Schottey @Schottey
Confirmed...Alshon Jeffery has been in Tampa since January 8th. IF he ran a 4.88 in Indianapolis, it was over a month ago.

Is there anything legal that Jeffery can do about this? It seems like a defamation of character and this may cost the guy $100’s/k in his contract.

no team is moving him on their draft board based on that tweet.

[obwhiteo]

Just move to tight end, problem solved

[NYCsaint]

Originally Posted by obwhiteo

Just move to tight end, problem solved

why stop there. i see the makings of a great tackle is eligible play.

[bornnraisedwhodat]

We'll see in Indy.

But there have been churps about him being out of shape.

[NYCsaint]

Originally Posted by bornnraisedwhodat

We'll see in Indy.

But there have been churps about him being out of shape.

mcshay and kiper were discussing him as getting towards a tightend body on espn this week. i suspect the second tweet might be the one thats false, honestly

[Brad01]

Originally Posted by baarbogast

Is there anything legal that Jeffery can do about this? It seems like a defamation of character and this may cost the guy $100’s/k in his contract.

Even if there was, how would he be able to prove that a tweet cost him his draft status?

Most of the mud on players gets slung around the week leading up to the draft anyway. And that's done generally on purpose by anonymous team sources so that they have a chance at drafting that player in a later round. Shoot... Mark Ingram is a recent example of this. Around April 13th last year, word came out that his knee injury was worse than reported and that teams were taking him off the draft board.

The draft was two weeks later and he almost fell out of the first round. He did have some injuries this year, but it was to his heel and toe, and both probably weren't as bad as it seemed from the time that he missed... simply because the Saints were relatively healthy all year at RB and had a healthy Chris Ivory ready to play if Mark got hurt.

[DownWithDisease]

If Alshon somehow falls to us in the 2nd, we gotta take him... no question about it.

[21counterZ-trap]

The knock on him all along was that he was gonna have a hard time getting separation in the NFL

[The Nomad]

He has a weight issue history-

Mayock said he’s heard whispers of Jeffery’s suspect conditioning, rumors that may have begun with this picture, believed to have been taken just before the 2011 college season. (Jeffery, No. 1, is on the far left.) For this year’s receiver class, Mayock has first-round grades on Oklahoma State’s Justin Blackmon, Baylor’s Kendall Wright, Notre Dame’s Michael Floyd, and LSU’s Rueben Randle.

He doesn’t have one on Jeffery.

Mayock: Alshon Jeffery not worth a first-round pick | ProFootballTalk

[sm504]

Originally Posted by baarbogast

" WR Alshon Jeffery, #SouthCarolina is training at St Vincents here in Indy. Sources say he's weighing 249lbs + running a 4.88 Forty#NFLDraft "

- Joe Everett

Michael Schottey @Schottey
Confirmed...Alshon Jeffery has been in Tampa since January 8th. IF he ran a 4.88 in Indianapolis, it was over a month ago.

Is there anything legal that Jeffery can do about this? It seems like a defamation of character and this may cost the guy $100’s/k in his contract.

I don't see how the truth about a player being scouted by hundreds can be defamatory. As long as it can be proven as a fact in court, he can say whatever he wants.

[Analyze This]

Hope it's true and he falls to us in the 2nd. He could be the 2nd coming of Colston (slower) or Graham.

[NYCsaint]

Originally Posted by Analyze This

Hope it's true and he falls to us in the 2nd. He could be the 2nd coming of Colston (slower) or Graham.

you hope we get a guy thats not just too lazy to get in shape, but dumb enough to pack on weight before the draft?

really?

[NYCsaint]

Originally Posted by 21counterZ-trap

The knock on him all along was that he was gonna have a hard time getting separation in the NFL

now he can use his gut to push off. beat the system!