{"id":34107,"date":"2018-12-09T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34107"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:00:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T00:00:12","slug":"how-do-you-prepare-for-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34107","title":{"rendered":"How do you &#8216;prepare&#8217; for NFL draft?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/untitled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34108\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/untitled-300x210.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/untitled-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/untitled-768x538.png 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/untitled.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I do not understand this development, so someone might have to explain it to me.<\/p>\n<p>Will Grier, a top flight quarterback for West Virginia University is the latest top-tier athlete to forgo a football bowl game to &#8220;prepare for the National Football League draft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s ponder that for a moment. The Mountaineers are going to play a game against Syracuse in the Camping World Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Grier received a scholarship to play football in Morgantown, W.Va. The school paid for his education. The school&#8217;s fans packed the stadium to watch Grier play QB. So now he wants to exhibit his loyalty to the school by skipping the team&#8217;s final game of the year?<\/p>\n<p>To prepare for the NFL draft? What in the world do these guys do to prep for a draft? Spare me the excuse that they are seeking to prevent career-ending injury; that event could happen at any time of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Royce Freeman, a running back at Oregon, stiffed the Ducks a year ago. So did Christian McCaffrey at Stanford a couple of years before that. These high-profile athletes occasionally bail on their schools to, um, <em>get ready to be drafted<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I keep circling back to a series of questions: What in the world do these fellows do to <em>prepare<\/em> to have their name called as a member of an NFL franchise? Do they run wind sprints in their front yard? Do they practice blocking and tackling in the garage? Do they, um, memorize play books?<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, is there no more loyalty to the schools that shell out good money to pay for their education?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not understand this development, so someone might have to explain it to me. Will Grier, a top flight quarterback for West Virginia University is the latest top-tier athlete to forgo a football bowl game to &#8220;prepare for the National Football League draft.&#8221; Let&#8217;s ponder that for a moment. The Mountaineers are going to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34107\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How do you &#8216;prepare&#8217; for NFL draft?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1059,3240,3302,6777],"class_list":["post-34107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-college-football","tag-ncaa","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-draft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34109,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34107\/revisions\/34109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}