The NFL combine is currently going on as we speak.

I despise the combine. It is a waste of time. It is a meat market. It doesn't really prove anything that really translates to being in a game on the field. None of the guys wear pads. They don't really do true one on one drills. They have no one covering them when route running. The QB's have no stress or pressure on them when throwing. Even that dumbass test, I can't think of the name of it right now, is pointless. I mean, Ryan Fitzpatrick has one of the highest scores ever, and while he has made a career for himself, I don't think the Wonderlic, I remembered it, has anything to do with why he has stuck around for a decade plus. Basically, the combine is a useless waste of time. It is just a spot for older gentleman to gush over young athletic guys.

As much as I try to avoid anything involved with the combine I cannot get away from the stories circulating that a bunch of NFL teams representatives that were sent there have been asking Heisman winning QB Lamar Jackson to try playing wide receiver.

This is absolutely asinine.

Like I just said, he won the Heisman 2 years ago as a QB. I don't think I ever even saw him play any wide out while he was at Louisville. He probably didn't play it much in high school either since he was recruited as a QB. So I am flabbergasted as to why these reps think they have the nerve to ask this kid that has been a QB all his life to play wide out, a position that he isn't fully familiar with. I honestly do not know what to make of this, outside of the fact that he is a hyper athletic player that is a bit slight for the position he has played his whole life. But, you look at where the NFL is heading, because of the college game, the run pass option offense is more en vogue now. Hell, the Eagles just won the Super Bowl with a backup QB running the RPO offense. Lamar Jackson excels at this type of game. He put up incredible, almost video game like numbers, in the past 2 seasons. Two years ago, his Heisman year, he had ridiculous numbers. I'm pretty sure he threw for over 4,000 yards, ran for another 1,500 and had right around 40 TD passes and another 15-20 TD runs. Then this past season, which some considered a bit of a letdown, he still went for 3,500 plus pass yards, 1,000 plus rush yards, 36 TD's passing and another 10-12 rushing. Oh yeah, he was a finalist for the Heisman in his "down year". That is some outrageous stat lines. And now these "geniuses" that run teams want him to switch to being a wide out?

Get the hell out of here.

Again, I am amazed that they have the nerve to even suggest this. I first heard Bill Polian, who is a million years old and far too removed from the game, say that he should consider the switch on ESPN. I say to Polian, shut the hell up. Why do you even think you have the right to say this? What team are you the GM for right now? How is this take any different from the bull shit that is spewed out of Skip Bayless' on the daily? Bill Polian is an old man has been. No one working in an NFL front office right now should listen to any nonsense he has to say. But, as the draft is getting closer and the combine is here, more and more reports are surfacing that other teams have asked him to try wide out.

That is ludicrous.

No one asked Deshaun Watson, the guy Jackson beat in the Heisman race 2 years ago, to switch to wide out last year at the combine. No one asked Eric Crouch if he wanted to play running back or receiver when he left Nebraska. Tommie Frazier was never asked to switch positions when he was done at Nebraska. No one wanted Tim Tebow to switch to tight end when he came in the league. No one was questioning Johnny Manziel after he left Texas A&M to play receiver. Denard Robinson only willfully switched to running back after he left Michigan because he wasn't a 1/10 the passer that Jackson is. The list could go on and on and on. If this had come up when Michael Vick was the number one overall pick, imagine the hysteria that would have followed. Even in this upcoming draft, the only QB who is being asked to think about switching positions is Jackson.

What makes a guy like Baker Mayfield a better option at QB than Jackson? He played in a RPO offense at Oklahoma. He doesn't have the strength to get the ball out of his hands like Jackson does. And he isn't nearly as dynamic as Jackson is with the ball. Yet no one is asking him to try a new position. Or why is this Allen kid from Wyoming a better prospect at QB than Jackson. He played in a lesser conference and didn't put up numbers that even came close to approaching what Jackson did over the last 2 years as a QB. Yet, all the "experts" have this Allen kid as the top QB prospect.

This is all absurd and a joke.

I think we all really know why the team reps are doing this, and it is a shame that this sort of racism still exists, especially in the professional sports world. Take one look at Lamar Jackson, then do the same at Baker Mayfield, and you hear 2 different stories about why Mayfield can make it as a QB, then the other side of that story is why Jackson has to switch positions if he wants to have a NFL career. It is disgusting if you ask me.

I hope Jackson blows off the reps asking him to try wide out and lights it up as a QB at the combine and all his pre draft workouts. I am now openly rooting for Lamar Jackson to not only make it as a QB, but he be one of the better QB's in the NFL. I would love nothing more than to see him shove it in these assholes faces that seem to think he has to play a different position. The kid has been a QB his whole life, and he deserves just as much a shot as Josh Rosen, Sam Darnold and Baker freaking Mayfield. I personally think he is better than all three of those guys.

Ty

Ty is the Pop Culture editor for SeedSing and the other host of the X Millennial Man Podcast. He remembers back when ESPN "draft experts" were debating if Blaine Gabbert would have a better career than Cam Newton. Why does these guys at ESPN still have a job?

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