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Topic: All-Decade Team: 2000s

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OrangeAfroMan

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Re: All-Decade Team: 2000s
« Reply #126 on: December 01, 2025, 09:55:29 PM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on December 01, 2025, 10:47:17 AM
I actually don't remember Larry Fitzgerald in college.  Not sure how much I saw him play, if any.     

This astounds me, as he was obsessed upon by the talking heads and highlight shows.

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Why I HATE HATE HATE NFL busts sort of being all they're known for (by and large) is that it's nuts MSU's Charles Rogers isn't on this team (there's 30 right answers at WR, I'm sure, but still).  Dude was HIM (as the kids say).
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MikeDeTiger

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Re: All-Decade Team: 2000s
« Reply #127 on: December 02, 2025, 09:43:42 AM »
Yeah.  I recall USC had Dwayne Jarrett and another guy or two who didn't amount to much in the pros.  But they were really good college WRs.  Maybe not All-Decade Team good, but great nonetheless.  It feels to me like in retrospect they get downgraded because they didn't have the proper tools for the NFL.  

There's also the reverse sometimes.  Some guys were okay college players but blossomed in the league.  
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Re: All-Decade Team: 2000s
« Reply #128 on: December 02, 2025, 09:59:01 AM »
Mike Williams at USC was good.

I hate this guy but Michael Crabtree at Texas Tech was pretty good too.
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Re: All-Decade Team: 2000s
« Reply #129 on: December 02, 2025, 10:10:28 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on December 02, 2025, 09:59:01 AM
Mike Williams at USC was good.

I hate this guy but Michael Crabtree at Texas Tech was pretty good too.


Mike Williams, iirc, was the guy who tried to enter the NFL before 3 years had gone by post-high school.  Seems like he maybe even sued the NFL over the age-restriction, or something like that.  It didn't work out, but his amateur status was ruined and he couldn't play the next year for USC either.  So he wound up sitting out of football a year.  Always made me wonder if he'd have been a better pro if he hadn't been out of the game for a year.  

Crabtree was good, but it seemed like a lot of people dismissed him in college as a "system" guy....whatever that meant.  Every play ever has played in some kind of system.  He played in Leach's Air Raid, but, I mean, there are tons of NFL teams that employ Air Raid concepts.  And, turns out, he was pretty good in the NFL too.   
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Re: All-Decade Team: 2000s
« Reply #130 on: December 02, 2025, 10:15:55 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on December 02, 2025, 09:59:01 AM
Mike Williams at USC was good.

I hate this guy but Michael Crabtree at Texas Tech was pretty good too.
yes sir
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Re: All-Decade Team: 2000s
« Reply #131 on: December 02, 2025, 08:17:27 PM »
Here's some AA WRs from 2000-2009 who didn't pan out in the pros:
Snoop Minnis, FSU
Jabar Gaffney, Florida
Josh Reed, LSU
Charles Rogers, MSU
Reggie Williams, Wash
Rashaun Woods, OKST
Braylon Edwards, UM
Mike Haas, ORST
Jordan Shipley, Texas

Go back to the late 2000s and who was putting money on KSU's Jordy Nelson being one of the best of the next decade in the NFL?!?  Insane.  Utter coin toss, I swear.
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Re: All-Decade Team: 2000s
« Reply #132 on: December 02, 2025, 08:23:52 PM »
Crabtree was a man child in college, including his Freshman year.
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Re: All-Decade Team: 2000s
« Reply #133 on: December 02, 2025, 11:13:52 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on December 02, 2025, 08:17:27 PM
Go back to the late 2000s and who was putting money on KSU's Jordy Nelson being one of the best of the next decade in the NFL?!?  Insane.  Utter coin toss, I swear.
Jordy grew up in Manhattan.........

Nelson began his college career as a walk-on at Kansas State and took his redshirt year as a member of the Wildcats' 2003 Big 12 Championship team.

For 2004, Nelson was set to play defensive back, but during spring practice following his first year, Snyder moved him to the wide receiver position. He did not record any meaningful statistics in the Wildcats' 4–7 season in 2004.
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