steveski said:
Nice. I like the thought of him being a COP back to start. Seems like the nerves get to this kid a lot and I think it's best for him to be used in that way to start.
Let's not forget that there were other COP backs in the league last year that were definitely fantasy relevant. Gio and Ellington to name a couple. IMO, Wilson is more talented than both of those guys, so hopefully he gets cleared and we get to see this play out.
Don't know that Wilson is more talented than Gio. Gio proved it last year.
Wilson has only reinforced concerns over Body type / health and ball control issues.
Having a spinal defect that he was playing with for years isn't exactly indicative of his body type/health correlations. I think we proved long ago in this thread that there was way more backs his exact same size that didn't have injury histories than backs his size that did. Spinal Stenosis wasn't an injury CAUSED by the hit, it was a condition that he's lived with for years and didn't know about. The hit just made enough doctors look at his neck to find it.
That's almost like saying that Jay Cutler is injury prone because he has diabetes.
His ability to take on a full load in terms of NFL wear and tear was an issue - and he did nothing to dispel that last year.
Ball control - same thing.
Man, are the blinders back on this guy already?
No, it was never an issue. You made it into an issue but it never was and still isn't. He had never even been injured once in his entire career coming into the league. He just so happens to have a spinal defect, but that has nothing to do with his size. Michael Irvin has the same condition, was Michael Irvin to small for the NFL?
Ball control, sure. Gio fumbled too did he not?
It's not a matter of blinders, it's a matter of unproven nonsense being used as reasons to dislike someone. Size =/= injury prone.