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Had the NFL adopted a rule similar to the NBA that allows players to enter the league following their freshman year, we would have likely seen Clemson wide receiver Justyn Ro s come off the board in the first round in 2019. Instead, the 6-foot-4, 205 pounder now finds himself not Moses Malone Jersey only falling out of the first round of the 2022 , but he went unclaimed throughout the seven-round spectacle and is now .So, what happened?Ro s turned in an impre sive freshman season at Clemson in 2018 where he finished with 1,000 yards receiving and a 21.7 yards Julius Erving Jersey per reception average. He really emerged throughout the Playoffs where he totaled 12 receptions for 301 yards and three touchdowns over two games as the Tigers would eventually win the National Championship. Ro s did all that as a freshman while playing alongside future wideouts like , , and . Timothe Luwawu Jersey While he was unable to turn pro, that production had him billed as one of the blue-chip NFL prospects in the coming seasons.Then, in 2019, it was discovered that Ro s was born with a neck i sue called , which is when two neck vertebrae are abnormally fused. Prior Gerald Henderson Jersey to that being revealed in 2019, Ro s was 14 games into his sophomore season and had 66 receptions for 865 yards and eight touchdowns. That rare neck i Charles Barkley Jersey sue required surgery and forced Ro s to mi s the entire 2020 season."Justyn has a condition that is very rare, and to my knowledge, there is no precedent of another high-level American football player with this condition playing football," Dr. David Okonkwo, who performed the surgery on Ro s, told back in April before the draft. "So we were paving new road as we went through the proce s." He returned to Joel Embiid Jersey the field in 2021 but suffered a stre s fracture in his left foot, which required surgery in November, further clouding Jerryd Bayless Jersey his draft stock. Last season, he appeared in 10 games and caught 46 pa ses for 514 yards and three scores, a production-level dwarfed by his performances earlier in his collegiate career.Those injury concerns, headlined by the unprecedented neck i sue that would make him the first known player to make the NFL with a congenital fusion in his spine, seem to be the driving force in his sunken draft stock and why he went undrafted."Just need dat 1 chance," Ro s during the draft on Saturday. Well, it looks Tiago Splitter Jersey like he'll now get that chance in Kansas City with Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes. |
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