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[quote author=StanFan88 link=topic=9338.msg80721#msg80721 date=1388843561]
I think Yankey is gone but the rest are staying if they know what's good for them.  Reynolds has not been as good a center fielder this year as he was last year, nor has he been as good a run-stopper.  Those are the top two jobs of an NFL safety, and I don't think he's shown that he's ready.  I actually think Richards is the more NFL ready of the two.

I think what happened to Chase Thomas have an affect on the decisions of some of our players.  It was pretty shocking when he didn't get drafted.  He was the leader of our defense and an All Pac-12 player.
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Perhaps the better example was Thomas Keiser, who declared for the NFL after his junior year, when many people thought he would be better off staying put a year [to be fair to him, he wasn't a perfect fit when we switched to a 3-4 defense].  He went undrafted, but then was signed as an undrafted free agent, and has stuck around the league; I think he's on the Chargers roster now.

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[quote author=StanFan88 link=topic=9338.msg80721#msg80721 date=1388843561]
I think Yankey is gone but the rest are staying if they know what's good for them.  Reynolds has not been as good a center fielder this year as he was last year, nor has he been as good a run-stopper.  Those are the top two jobs of an NFL safety, and I don't think he's shown that he's ready.  I actually think Richards is the more NFL ready of the two.

I think what happened to Chase Thomas have an affect on the decisions of some of our players.  It was pretty shocking when he didn't get drafted.  He was the leader of our defense and an All Pac-12 player.
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Perhaps the better example was Thomas Keiser, who declared for the NFL after his junior year, when many people thought he would be better off staying put a year [to be fair to him, he wasn't a perfect fit when we switched to a 3-4 defense].  He went undrafted, but then was signed as an undrafted free agent, and has stuck around the league; I think he's on the Chargers roster now.

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