Anzalone Practicing

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I don't think it was and if he can play effectively it is great news.
 

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Hey, LDR played with one arm, I'm sure Anzalone can.
 

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Ive seen some kids play with some pretty big casts.

Its his last game in a more bitter than sweet career. Admirable. He could easily sit it out.
 

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Did you see how easy that bone in his wrist broke? Watch the disturbing replay.

The guy is too fragile for the game. Nothing personal towards him.
 

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Its his last game in a more bitter than sweet career. Admirable. He could easily sit it out.

I'm not sure Anzelone is entering the draft this year. He's never finished an entire season. Unless he does amazing things at the combine I don't think he'll get drafted in one of the early rounds.
 

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He's graduated already. He's gone.
 

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When he was in he was lights-out. Hope he's got one more game in him - if so it'll likely be the last football game he plays in. Go Anzalone! GO GATORS!
 

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I suspect that he'll play to show that it wasn't a season ending injury and that he finished the season. He's playing because he's leaving.
 

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Why not apply for the medical hardship? Get one more year of scholarship money, further your degree / resume, and potentially be the star on defense next year propelling yourself into draft talk for 2018 if you can play the whole year injury free. Possibly get drafted relatively high/get drafted at all, get a nice contract, and see if you can play professionally/ milk that puppy for all it's worth. Than use your extra year of schooling/ degree to get a better job than you could've have gotten without doing an extra year when your NFL stint (possibly great career) is over.
 

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I'm not sure Anzelone is entering the draft this year. He's never finished an entire season. Unless he does amazing things at the combine I don't think he'll get drafted in one of the early rounds.
Wouldn't it be beneficial for him to stay another year? He'd be the star on defense and could show NFL teams that if he stays healthy the whole year they don't have to worry about old injuries/durability.
 

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Wouldn't it be beneficial for him to stay another year? He'd be the star on defense and could show NFL teams that if he stays healthy the whole year they don't have to worry about old injuries/durability.

I don't think it would be. The NFL already has good tape on him. And he had an excellent junior year. He'll probably be drafted in the first three rounds off of that. If he stayed another year his game will get nitpicked (as all seniors do) and if he gets hurt again he won't get drafted.
 

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I don't think it would be. The NFL already has good tape on him. And he had an excellent junior year. He'll probably be drafted in the first three rounds off of that. If he stayed another year his game will get nitpicked (as all seniors do) and if he gets hurt again he won't get drafted.
True. Imo, he's probably going to enter the draft. I assume people in the know are telling him his draft stock is relatively high. It's just hard to wrap my head around why an NFL team would take somebody who is so injury prone and hasn't played much at all. I guess they see the potential/size tho.
 

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Why not apply for the medical hardship? Get one more year of scholarship money, further your degree / resume,
What are you talking about? He is a junior and already has another year of eligibility.

and potentially be the star on defense next year propelling yourself into draft talk for 2018 if you can play the whole year injury free.
His injury this year was a freak thing, someone falling on his forearm.

He is gone. He doesn't want to do more school. He doesn't want to be a part of next year's Donkey Show. I don't blame him. Who does?
 

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