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Fans may revel in the NFL Draft, but athletes find the experience as a very unsettling waiting game: LeCharles Bentley
By Special to The Plain Dealer
April 22, 2010

Editor's note: Former St. Ignatius, Ohio State and NFL standout LeCharles Bentley remembers what it was like waiting for his call on draft day and how it took much longer than he expected before he heard from the New Orleans Saints.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The NFL Draft is often viewed as the sporting world's version of a scratch-off lottery ticket. Although this may be the reality for approximately 20 of the 224 players drafted, the draft represents much more than cash. The draft is just as much about pride, ego and competition as a fourth and 1 goal-line stand.

These young men aren't foreigners to the world of competition. From the time they were playground stars through their collegiate careers, everyone has wanted them to compete on their team. These alpha athletes were often the first players selected during childhood recreational games. The local private and public school coaches huddled around the fences of their middle school football games to get a closer look. Celebrity college coaches had taken the time out of their demanding schedules to remember the young man's name and even mail him handwritten notes of endearment. Theses athletes are accustomed to being coveted and competing.

This weekend's NFL draft will be the inaugural event in these athlete's lives that they will be on the flip side of the equation. Until this point in their athletic careers they have been the selectors. Each university represented in this year's draft had been selected by the athlete. Every agent representing players during these processes have been selected by the player. There is nothing else these players can do to convince a team they are worthy of their selection as opposed to the next guy. The selection process has begun and now these young men are emotionally exposed in ways they never imagined possible.

I was labeled as the best center in college football during the 2001 season and every draft "expert" had pegged me as a first-round selection. The reality of me being drafted was real but the question of when was difficult to stomach. My entire athletic experience had been under my control, albeit with a great supporting cast. Good coaches can play a role in an athlete's success but nobody can force a player to want to be great, it has to come from within.
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Fans may revel in the NFL Draft, but athletes find the experience as a very unsettling waiting game: LeCharles Bentley | cleveland.com
 
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LeCharles Bentley Sues Browns, Claims He Almost Died From Staph Infection -- NFL FanHouse

The Cleveland Browns are again being sued by a former player.

LeCharles Bentley has filed a suit in Cuyahoga (Oh.) County Court of Common Pleas, and his attorney said Bentley "almost died" from a Staph infection he got while rehabbing from knee surgery at the team's facility, FanHouse has learned

The suit contains claims of fraud and negligent misrepresentation against the Browns, and procedurally asks for more than $25,000 in damages.

"The Browns convinced LeCharles to rehab at their facility," Bentley's attorney, Shannon Polk, said Thursday. "Nothing required him to do it (there). That wasn't part of his job. They told him their facility was the best and that they had successfully helped others. But they never told him about a host of unsanitary conditions there and they never told him about the list of others who contracted Staph before he chose to rehab there.
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Re: The suit contains claims of fraud and negligent misrepresentation against the Browns, and procedurally asks for more than $25,000 in damages.

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After signing a six, $36 million contract -year in 2006, Bentley never saw a down in a Browns uniform. He tore his patellar tendon during the first day of training camp in 2006 and needed a second surgery to clear out a subsequent staph infection.

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Bentley claims he almost died from the infection and is only asking for $25K in damages. That's "chump change" to those guys. That has to be a misprint....:biggrin:
 
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Good luck to him in his suit. The Browns medical faciltiies became the laughing-stock of the nation. Player tears a knee, and everyone is just waiting for it to turn into a staph-infection. And 90% of the time it actually happened.

Something needed to be done, including shutting the premises down to figure out why it was a staph-infection haven. That was ridiculous.
 
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OH10;1736513; said:
He's asking for more than $25,000.00 in damages. That's the jurisdiction minimum for Common Pleas Court in Ohio. That doesn't mean he's limiting his request to that amount - could be significantly more.
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Which is what you are required to ask for in Ohio I believe...not allowed to ask for more in the complaint.
 
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LeCharles Bentley Fires Back at Braylon Edwards? Smearing of Cleveland ? With a Gay Joke
TheBigLead August 10th. 2010

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Fight: LeCharles Bentley must have read the Braylon Edwards profile in the NY Times this morning ? because the former NFL offensive lineman who hails from Cleveland drilled Edwards on twitter with a gay joke. ?Nothing that comes out of his mouth or goes into surprises me? (he forgot the word ?it?).
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LeCharles Bentley Fires Back at Braylon Edwards’ Smearing of Cleveland … With a Gay Joke | The Big Lead
 
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