QB/WR Terrelle Pryor ('10 Rose, '11 Sugar MVP)

[Jake]

Much like others are getting tired of the "It's just youth" mantra, I'm getting tired of the "B-b-but he's the star QB" excuse. So what? Last time I checked he didn't do anything worse than the others yet he's only one who gets forced out of school and basically getting spat on by fans.

He chose to leave. No one forced him to do anything. I hope someone takes him in the supplemental, as I expect someone will, and he lives his NFL dream. But let's not paint him as a victim, despite the stupidity of some fans/students who projected their frustrations toward him.

It's just annoying as hell to listen to people bash Pryor like he single-handily brought down the program or something. On the contrary, it seems like this could of happen any time within the past 10 years and Tat-5 just hit a streak of bad luck.

It was not "bad luck" that turned the Tat-5 into a major scandal for the football program. It was a conscious decision by a former representative of the University to not self-report that made the Tat-5 into a major scandal for the football program.

 

[Pheasant]

Pryor and the NFL is interesting. If you were an NFL GM what draft pick would you spend on an unpolished yet winning quarterback who will be at least one of the two best athletes on your roster the day he pulls the jersey on?
This isn't the Raiders drafting Usain Bolt (which I sort of can't believe hasn't happened yet-maybe I just don't remember it happening), this isn't even the Raiders drafting Todd Dopovich or Jamarcus Russell. The kid's a winner, not a freak.

As to his role/responsibility for the incredibly interesting off season it's been. I'm over it. He fucked some things up, so did some other people. It's too bad Tressel didn't handle it better. Get off the kid's back.

 

[NFBuck]

WTF? Did he have plastic surgery? That doesn't look anything like him. He looks 35. There's your next "scandel"..."Former Ohio State QB Terrelle Pryor lied about age"

 

[Wells4Heisman]

Working out in that Florida sun will do that to ya. He probably even gained some speed since he's in SEC country.

 

[BUCKYLE]

WTF? Did he have plastic surgery? That doesn't look anything like him. He looks 35. There's your next "scandel"..."Former Ohio State QB Terrelle Pryor lied about age"

He's really a forty year old Dominican dude.

 

[scooter1369]

WTF? Did he have plastic surgery? That doesn't look anything like him. He looks 35. There's your next "scandel"..."Former Ohio State QB Terrelle Pryor lied about age"

ESPN: Breaking News - Terrelle Pryor is Greg Oden's dad.

 

[GomerBucks]

That is the strangest photo pose ever. Nothing natural about how he is sitting. Is he stretching? On the bleachers?

 

[Buckskin86]

July 22, 2011

Could the Bucs be interested in QB Terrelle Pryor? What level of draft pick would the team fork over for Pryor? Find out right here.

In 2009 the Tampa Bay Buccaneers put in a bid in the supplemental draft for defensive end Jeremy Jarmon. The Washington Redskins outbid the Bucs and other teams and Jarmon went to D.C. This year the Buccaneers could look to find a backup signal caller and developmental quarterback in the supplemental draft with Ohio State?s Terrelle Pryor.

Pryor is entering the supplemental draft after leaving Ohio State and a five game suspension that would have started the 2011 college football season. Pryor was at the center of a controversy and investigation into players receiving gifts and cash that violated NCAA rules. Pryor was alleged to have sold and traded game worn memorabilia. The infractions cost coach Jim Tressel his job as he resigned earlier this year.

Last year Pryor completed 65 percent of his passes for 2,772 yards with 27 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. Pryor also ran for 754 yards with an average of 5.6 yards per carry and four touchdowns. In his career he ran for 2,164 yards and 17 touchdowns while averaging 5.0 yards per carry. In his collegiate career he threw for 6,177 yards with 57 touchdowns, 26 interceptions and completed 61 percent of his passes.


Pryor has prototype size at 6-foot-5, 230-pounds. He has a strong arm and is a very good runner with the ball in his hands. At the NFL level Pryor will need to work on his accuracy and his pocket passing. Pryor will also have to be developed in understanding an NFL offense and reading an NFL defense. The mental and physical development that is needed for Pryor causes many in the league to believe that he grades out to be a mid-round or late-round pick, especially with the concerns about Pryor?s off the field decision making.

The Buccaneers are doing their due diligence and going through Pryor?s tape to access if they are willing to submit a bid on Pryor in the supplemental draft. Pewter Report believes that it would be unlikely that Tampa Bay would surrender anything more than a fifth-round pick. Their fourth-round pick in the 2012 NFL Draft was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles when the Bucs moved up in the fourth round to get tight end Luke Stocker.

Cont...

http://www.pewterreport.com/index.p...=7052:could-the-bucs-select-pryor?&Itemid=105

 

[morbitzerker]

WTF? Did he have plastic surgery? That doesn't look anything like him. He looks 35. There's your next "scandel"..."Former Ohio State QB Terrelle Pryor lied about age"

I saw this photo right after the story was linked in this thread and thought "Holy shit has he aged," I was wondering if anyone else would say something. We're all on the same page. Dude looks old as fuck for being 22.

 

[utgrad73]

Working out in that Florida sun will do that to ya. He probably even gained some speed since he's in SEC country.

He now runs a 4.2 forty and is working out with the Gators. He's the "slow" man on the field. But he can play in the cold north in November in Browns Stadium.

 

[Gatorubet]

I saw this photo right after the story was linked in this thread and thought "Holy [Mark May] has he aged," I was wondering if anyone else would say something. We're all on the same page. Dude looks old as [censored] for being 22.

Greg Oden juice. It does that.

 

[Tonyank]

http://nmsn.foxsports.com/nfl/story...ligible-if-NFL-has-supplemental-draft--072411

Pryor ineligible for supplemental draft?

Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor’s journey to the NFL might take longer than expected.

Not only has the NFL yet to schedule a supplemental draft for the 2011 season, but Pryor might not qualify if there is one despite having announced plans to enter after leaving Ohio State in early June.

“If there are no players eligible for a supplemental draft, there is no supplemental draft,” NFL spokesman Greg Aiello wrote in an email to FOXSports.com on Sunday. “It is for players whose circumstances have changed in an unforeseen way after the regular (college) draft. It is not a mechanism for simply bypassing the regular (draft).”

Aiello cited examples of “unforeseen” changes as players who were kicked off their college teams, declared academically ineligible or graduated and then decided to leave school. Pryor doesn’t qualify on any of those fronts.

Although engulfed in a payola scandal that also involved some teammates, Pryor’s eligibility status at Ohio State hadn’t recently changed at the time of his departure.

 

[Bucknut24]

d'oh

 

[buckeyeintn]

A payola scandal? That's a bit of a stretch. He received improper benefits by trading memorabilia for tats. Payola would indicate he was receiving money to induce him to play, not benefits because he was already playing.

 

[cdiddy70]

"Aiello cited examples of ?unforeseen? changes as players who were kicked off their college teams, declared academically ineligible or graduated and then decided to leave school. Pryor doesn?t qualify on any of those fronts."

What a tool.

So if Pryor punches a coed in the face and/or blows a .19, gets a formal letter he is kicked of the team, then he is eligible.