I've made my opinion very clear on this, I think it was an admirable gesture to draft him that was decided by our teams owner and executed by a pretty amazing HC.
But the spin I keep getting about the guys talent on the heels of it I just don't buy, if Mike Sam had been as highly rated on draft boards as people are pretending it's a damned prime fascia case every other team in this league is either afraid of the pub or afraid of the effects on the locker room and I just don't buy it. If he was that good we just wouldn't have been able to get him where we did, I would submit he was probably the most analyzed player outside the first round in this draft.
He wasn't a draft able player according to most real, football non media analysts just wasn't ,the rest of the teams in this league aren't afraid ,maybe a few, but he just isn't that good ,GREAT college players playing week after week against guys who will never be NFL starters can be dominant but not be good pro prospects. Sam was an awesome college player he's got a long uphill challenge to earn a roster spot and possibly on the worst possible team for him to achieve it.
I wish him every good thing life has to offer,but I ain't pretending I think he's better'n he is,I think some people are.