Posted on 01/11/2019 8:16:28 AM PST by C19fan
Oklahoma quarterback and Oakland A’s first-round draft pick Kyler Murray is days away from deciding the next step of his athletic career. The Heisman Trophy winner has until Sunday to declare for the 2019 NFL draft, which would put his baseball career on hold indefinitely in the hopes of beating the odds as an undersized quarterback. We asked Mike Oz, Frank Schwab and Sam Cooper to make the case as to why Kyler Murray should either stick with his original path of playing baseball, declaring for the NFL draft or return to the Sooners for his senior season.
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Play baseball!
The pay is just as good, or better. You won’t have your legs or head smashed in a career ending injury, and if you’re good, your career will be a lot longer.
Our QB Brandon Weeden, Oklahoma State U, our alma mater...
Played pro baseball and college football and pro football. Currently a QB with Houston. Cute, too. Looks like our younger son who was born about same year as Brandon. We enjoy watching Brandon’s career unfold!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Weeden
Excellent advice!
I had a co-worker whose son signed with the San Diego Padres right out of high school. He made big bucks right away. Going to college for four years of ‘athletic studies’ and other time wasters while earning nothing didn’t appeal to him, I guess.
On average Baseball players have longer careers and make more money, with less risk of debilitating injury.
Easy choice, and one Herschel Walker wishes he had made.
A no-brainer....Baseball!
Longer career, and more money.
Bo Jackson (and his hip) wishes he’d stuck solely to baseball.
Easy choice IF he’s good enough to do well in the bigs.
160 games per season versus 16 games? Wouldn’t be a real hard decision for me.
“Our QB Brandon Weeden...”
Ugh. He may be good looking, he may even be a great person, but as far as NFL QB goes... not so much. Very strong arm, not much in the way of accuracy or decision making.
He’s done well for himself.
Kyler's best decision is going to be made by himself, obviously, but as of today all options are open for him.
(In other, unrelated but interesting news, former Texas Tech head coach Kliff Kingsbury, who is a spread offense proponent from the Mike Leach coaching tree, has been hired by the Arizona Cardinals. Almost the first thing he mentioned is an interest (my words, not his, I don't recall exactly what was said nor do I have a link) in drafting Kyler with his first pick and trading away whatshisname, Rosen?
Interesting times...
CTE is a myth and belongs in the category of global warming. T
here are some who are brain damaged by concussions, but it is rare. Some man became famous for his theory, and the entire lawyer class jumped on board. Billions in settlements, players will receive less than millions. Even the medical proponents will become rich testifying.
The Detroit Lions drafted him in the second round of the 1992 draft. He still wanted to go to medical school instead, but someone sat him down and pointed out that he could play football for a few years and then quit with enough money in the bank to pay for medical school AND have a nice nest egg on the side.
He retired from the NFL 21 years later with all kinds of records to his credit.
And the reason for the demise of football participation is cratering at the high school level.
First, finish his college degree. Then stick with baseball ... less chance of a career-ending injury.
Dancing With the Stars? But seriously, without a doubt Baseball. It’s just a matter of time (1st game maybe) that he’ll get smashed in the pro’s. On the other hand, he might be enhancing his net worth by having multiple options.
The signing bonus and first year salary he would get as an early first round NFL pick would dwarf the $4.7 million and minor league salary the A's are offering him.
Go baseball...you’ll be playing in some historic stadiums - Fenway Park and Wrigley....most of the football stadiums are from 1990... Lambeau is one of the oldest and it opened in 1957.
That’s what I was thinking, if he goes in the 1st round, he’ll make more money in one or two years than he might in his entire baseball career.
And if he doesn’t end up making it in football, it’s not like you can’t break into baseball a couple of years later, if he was good enough to play.
And as a quarterback, he is less likely to suffer severe damage — it is almost impossible for a professional quarterback to be hit in the head without a penalty, and while a couple of gruesome injuries happen each year to quarterbacks, most are not the kind that would keep him from playing baseball.
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