The "rookie wall" was real; but it is no more.
College seasons used to be shorter and rookies never experienced the draining affect of two-a days and hundreds of collisions w/ bigger faster guys each week in practice.
Now there's 11 padded 2 hr practices during an NFL season and everyone goes to a Bowl game on New Year Day. They just established a new bowl this year taking the 14 place Big 10 team and 18 place SEC team called "The Petsmart there's a piece of dog sh!t over there Bowl." I can hear Lombardi: "I mean WT FLYIN' F is going on around here."
The six draftable players not playing on New Years or after, are playing in all star games and training for combine with more grueling rigors than the typical NFL dude.
Hell, compared to OSU regiment, I'll bet Linsley thought he was on vacation playing for GB last year!
That said, learning 4 WR positions in the GB offense in one year IMHO is mentally IMPOSSIBLE. I can see anyone trying, especially if he's supposed to also contribute on STs, suffering form mental fatigue. It's just too much!
Originally Posted by: Barfarn