McFadden to Oakland
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- April
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“The only thing Darren McFadden has ever wanted to do is play pro football,” Arkansas running backs coach Tim Horton said. “If he could’ve left after his sophomore year he would have.”
The way I see it, the Jets can consider themselves lucky Oakland made their pick easier. If you are a team that values character over talent, and the Jets say they do, then it’s hard to pick McFadden. His own history—babies on the way by different women and bar fights—is riddled with issues. To pretend that those will go away when he has a signing bonus worth millions in his back pocket is just self deception.
It’s one thing to be a team that takes on projects, but the Jets have set themselves apart. To draft McFadden would have been to turn away from that path. If the Jets want to do that, fine, but you can’t say you adhere to those principles and then draft a kid like McFadden.
His issues haven’t been resolved, and he’s about to become a much richer target.
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