Tech’s Hill slips out of first round
Former Georgia Tech wide receiver Stephen Hill slipped out of the first round of the NFL draft Thursday night. Many draft projections pegged Hill, who left Tech after his junior season, to go to San Francisco at the No. 30 spot. The 49ers did take a wide receiver, but it was Illinois’ A.J. Jenkins, projected as an early second-round choice. Overall, four wide receivers were taken in the first round – Oklahoma State’s Justin Blackmon to Jacksonville at No. 5, Notre Dame’s Michael Floyd to St. Louis Arizona at No. 13, Baylor’s Kendall Wright to Tennessee at No. 20 and Jenkins.
Hill, invited to New York for the draft, will likely go early in the second round, which begins at 7 p.m. Friday. The first 10 picks of the second round – St. Louis, Indianapolis, Baltimore, Denver, Cleveland, Jacksonville, St. Louis, Carolina, Buffalo and Miami. Hill visited with the Ravens prior to the draft. (He also reportedly visited with the New York Jets, Philadelphia, Tennessee and Minnesota.) With the exception of Jacksonville, which took Blackmon in the first round, the other nine teams have a need at wide receiver to one degree or another and could select Hill. Another team could also trade up to take Hill.
A few intriguing landing spots are Indianapolis, where Hill could pair with first overall pick Andrew Luck; Denver, where he could line up opposite former Jackets star Demaryius Thomas and catch passes from Peyton Manning; Carolina, where he could become the go-to guy of Cam Newton, another Atlanta product; and Buffalo, where he would be coached by former Tech coach Chan Gailey and be a teammate of his former quarterback, Bills safety Joshua Nesbitt.
An interesting post script to the Jenkins pick. My thanks to a Twitter follower who noted that Gailey recruited Jenkins out of Jacksonville, Fla., and received a commitment from him in the summer of 2007, but he de-committed in the fall. (confirmed on Jenkins” Rivals page) Interesting to think what might have happened if he’d kept his commitment and then maintained it after the coaching change. The other great part about Jenkins’ page? He was the No. 53 wide receiver in the country that year. (Floyd was No. 6 and Blackmon was No. 91. Wright was the No. 64 “athlete.” Julio Jones and A.J. Green were Nos. 1 and 2, respectively. In 2009, Hill was No. 99.)
Ken Sugiura, Georgia Tech blog
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atlxman
April 27th, 2012
11:25 am
gt bob…tech receivers are not getting drafted high..thats my point. uga receivers are making pro bowls as rookies and making serious money.
George Stein
April 27th, 2012
11:27 am
” uga receivers are making pro bowls as rookies and making serious money”
Plural?
ATLcracker
April 27th, 2012
11:28 am
wow. click on ” Falcon’s picks ” under Dimitroff’s picture. Since 1993 the Falcons have been pitiful at drafting linemen.
Supersize that order, mutt
April 27th, 2012
11:31 am
@ GTfan2012 …. Great post
GTBob
April 27th, 2012
11:31 am
gt bob…tech receivers are not getting drafted high..thats my point. uga receivers are making pro bowls as rookies and making serious money.
They will have two 1st or 2nd round draft picks in the past 3 years. Not bad for a dream crushing offense.
GTfan 2012
April 27th, 2012
11:33 am
atlxman,
I love the revisionist history on RBs. Jon Dwyer was projected to go as high as 2nd round at one point, then he came into a bunch of his NFL workouts overweight. But somehow that wasn’t his fault?!?!? Anthony Allen is a solid RB, but the position of RB at the NFL level has changed. Are you willing to tell me that you think Allen was talented enough to be the 6th or 7th best RB to come out last year (that’s 3rd round in last year’s draft). You think Allen was more talented than Roy Helu or Kendall Hunter (both 4th rounders)?
Supersize that order, mutt
April 27th, 2012
11:56 am
@ 2012…..I pointed out to xman last night about Dwyer’s condition when he went to the NFL, and I even provided links. But somehow xman still blames that on CPJ. Go figure
Tyler Kidney
April 27th, 2012
12:03 pm
Well, guess I won’t be getting invited to any more Fraternity parties
Son of Clem
April 27th, 2012
12:06 pm
Drummond gets a BUI and hides it from the coach. Kidney destroys property and assaults two students. What kind of program is CPJ running there in Atlanta? Maybe he needs to quit recruiting all these “thugs”
GT fan
April 27th, 2012
12:07 pm
Neil
April 27th, 2012
8:53 am
Grinch
PJ should be blasted for his 14-12 record over the past 2 seasons, that includes wins over duke(twice) mid tenn (twice) s carolina st and w carolina! Those power houses yielded 43% of the wins!
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Neil, your dawgs only have 2 more Ws in the same span. Of UGA’s 16 Ws, just how many of those were against “good” teams?
I’ve got your answer … ZERO. No, UF and Auburn weren’t good in 2011.
But I’ll spin it for you…. “My dawgs only had 2 more Ws than GT b/c we play in the SEC” … “if we played in the ACC we’d undefeated, and if GT played in the SEC they have 4-5 Ws at best”
CoolBreze
April 27th, 2012
12:22 pm
No AJC title on “Cordy Glenn slips into Second Round” ? Shocking. GT beating Georgie in a baseball game was kinda buried, too. Oh, well.. It’s pretty clear that Georgie gets more high profile recruits than GT. How many dawgs were drafted in the first round? Add that to your analysis of what the coaches do with the talent they’re given…
HighTech
April 27th, 2012
12:27 pm
No UGA players taken in the first round? How can that be?
FL Jacket
April 27th, 2012
12:37 pm
“No UGA players taken in the first round? How can that be?”
Must be Mark Richt’s offense holding them back…
GTBob
April 27th, 2012
12:39 pm
No UGA players taken in the first round? How can that be?
Actually that makes 5 of the past 7 years that UGA hasn’t had a first rounder. In Richt’s first 4 years UGA had 6 first round draft picks. In the 7 years they have had 3. Richt really should send Donnan a nice Christmas present.
WnE
April 27th, 2012
12:46 pm
re:
Son of Clem
April 27th, 2012
12:06 pm
Drummond gets a BUI and hides it from the coach. Kidney destroys property and assaults two students. What kind of program is CPJ running there in Atlanta? Maybe he needs to quit recruiting all these “thugs”
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Suburban White kids can’t be thugs, the only thugs in College sports are at SEC Schools, and Miami and FSU.
My time at GT taught me this much!
GTfan 2012
April 27th, 2012
12:55 pm
Wow, WnE is a racist, too.
HighTech
April 27th, 2012
12:55 pm
WnE
April 27th, 2012
12:46 pm
re:
Son of Clem
April 27th, 2012
12:06 pm
Drummond gets a BUI and hides it from the coach. Kidney destroys property and assaults two students. What kind of program is CPJ running there in Atlanta? Maybe he needs to quit recruiting all these “thugs”
________________
Suburban White kids can’t be thugs, the only thugs in College sports are at SEC Schools, and Miami and FSU.
My time at GT taught me this much!
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What was your major before you took the M-train?
WnE
April 27th, 2012
1:04 pm
re:
GTBob
April 27th, 2012
10:49 am
What ive learned on the blogs recently:
Every player that is on GT’s team would have been a first round draft pick if CPJ had not been the coach. At least by this silly logic you can’t argue that he isn’t recruiting well.
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If Dwyer & A.Allen played in I-formation, pro-style formations, they would have been drafted no later than the 3rd round with their size & productivity in college.
If Kevin Cone at 6-2 210 and running a 4.37 with a 400m track background had played in a pro-style system, he probably would have been a 5th round draft choice rather than a Free agent having to make the Team via the Practice Squad.
Now we have Hill with Randy Moss measurables and only 26 catches in a 12 game season and folks are wondering WHY he falls out of the first round.
Well try this out:
Randy Moss measurables on a CRIMINAL like Moss with a BAD ATTITUDE will still get you drafted in the FIRST ROUND as long as you put up the STATS in college.
In Hill’s case Randy Moss measurables won’t get you drafted in the 1st round if you play in a gimmicky triple-OPtion offense, even if you are a saint off the field when you don’t put up the STATS thanks to playing in a gimmicky CPJ led offense.
All you schmucks are trying to claim AFTER the fact that Randy Moss measurables aren’t enough to get you drafted n the first round but they can get a criminal with a bad attitude like Moss drafted in the first round, the only difference being the SYSTEM you play in and the STATS you put up!
Hill played for the wrong HC, he might not ever say it in public, but those close to him know that he feels this way.
FL Jacket
April 27th, 2012
1:11 pm
“In Hill’s case Randy Moss measurables won’t get you drafted in the 1st round if you play in a gimmicky triple-OPtion offense, even if you are a saint off the field when you don’t put up the STATS thanks to playing in a gimmicky CPJ led offense.”
WnE obviously slept through the 2010 NFL Draft where BeyBey Thomas was the first WR taken…over a guy from a passing offense who had more collegiate hype (Dez Bryant)
George Stein
April 27th, 2012
1:11 pm
“Hill played for the wrong HC, he might not ever say it in public, but those close to him know that he feels this way.”
How do you know this?
George Stein
April 27th, 2012
1:13 pm
“If Dwyer & A.Allen played in I-formation, pro-style formations, they would have been drafted no later than the 3rd round with their size & productivity in college.”
This is completely unsupported by fact.
GTBob
April 27th, 2012
1:13 pm
What I have also learned in these blogs:
Stephen Hill is just as talented as Randy Moss, AJ Green, Calvin Johnson, and Julio Jones. Kevin Cone, a guy who started his career at Shorter College was also apparently as talented as them.
George Stein
April 27th, 2012
1:15 pm
“All you schmucks ”
WnE at 1:04 today.
“Whether you agree with me or not Stein, at least I KEEP THINGS CLEAN and respectful!”
WnE at 10:09 today.
FL Jacket
April 27th, 2012
1:17 pm
“their size & productivity in college.”
WnE…
But this productivity was, as you claim, from a GIMMICKY offense…so how is it now legit to transpose those numbers to an I-formation offense?
The trolling on here has been quite sub-par between xman and WnE…
GTBob
April 27th, 2012
1:22 pm
All you schmucks are trying to claim AFTER the fact that Randy Moss measurables aren’t enough to get you drafted n the first round but they can get a criminal with a bad attitude like Moss drafted in the first round
I think the 55 touchdowns he scored in two years had a little more to do with it. Randy Moss was one of the best players to ever come out of high school and then completely dominated in college. Stephen Hill was a decent receiver with issues dropping the ball. It’s pretty amazing that you can’t see the difference in the two.
Supersize that order, mutt
April 27th, 2012
1:22 pm
Hill played for the wrong HC, he might not ever say it in public, but those close to him know that he feels this way
So now WnE is psychic and can read minds, knowing what other people think…..and probably other people whom he has never even seen.
GIVE ME A BREAK !!!
Supersize that order, mutt
April 27th, 2012
1:25 pm
@ George……do you mean to say that schmucks isn’t a respectful term? But WnE says he keeps things “clean and respectful.” Am I missing something here?
George Stein
April 27th, 2012
1:27 pm
“Before you GT fan get too happy with our “steal” of a recruit from Bama, remember that we also stole 4* Recruit Stephen Hill from uga,and then they proceeded to recruit tons of WRs that have proven to be better than S. Hill, if Hill had gone to UGa he’d be the 8th option at WR for them.”
This is a post by WnE. I am unclear as to how being the 8th option at WR would have helped Hill.
George Stein
April 27th, 2012
1:27 pm
Me too, SS. I’m awfully confused.
WnE
April 27th, 2012
1:29 pm
Dez Bryant sat out 10+ Games maybe the entire season the Yr. Bay-Bay was The 1st WR taken, had he just played half of the season he’d of gone ahead of Bay-Bay.
Even with the big catch/TD run in the Playoffs, Bay-Bay has been slow to develop and has underachieved in his short NFL career.
Compare Bay-Bay to 2 other big WRs that came out of Pro-Style Offenses to see the DAMAGE that CPJ does to WRs NFL careers; the 2 WRs Julio Jones & AJ Green.
George Stein
April 27th, 2012
1:31 pm
“Dez Bryant sat out 10+ Games maybe the entire season the Yr. Bay-Bay was The 1st WR taken, had he just played half of the season he’d of gone ahead of Bay-Bay.”
Character concerns are important. Ask Janoris Jenkins.
“Even with the big catch/TD run in the Playoffs, Bay-Bay has been slow to develop and has underachieved in his short NFL career.
Compare Bay-Bay to 2 other big WRs that came out of Pro-Style Offenses to see the DAMAGE that CPJ does to WRs NFL careers; the 2 WRs Julio Jones & AJ Green.”
This is intellectually dishonest. No mention of the QB he played with or the injury his rookie year?
GT Lee
April 27th, 2012
1:35 pm
WnE you really like to run your pickle-smoker, don’t you? No one gives a flying rats ass what you think so STFU; you are a LIAR, a HYPOCRITE, a COWARD and you STALK TEENAGE RECRUITS….
Supersize that order, mutt
April 27th, 2012
1:37 pm
OMG, you mean WnE is intellectually dishonest??? Say it ain’t so. I thought he was the paragon of all that is CLEAN AND RESPECTFUL. Isn’t honesty part of being RESPECTFUL. I am crushed. What can I possibly do now that I know that WnE is neither intellectually honest nor respectful. My life is over.
FL Jacket
April 27th, 2012
1:37 pm
GTLee…
Hopefully Travis Custis isn’t on Twitter
Supersize that order, mutt
April 27th, 2012
1:39 pm
@ Lee……how dare you talk about my hero like that. WnE is a god. Didn’t you know that? He never lies, he never calls people names, he never talks disrespectfully, and now we find out that he reads minds. How can such a perfect man exist in such an imperfect world? Oh, alas and alack. What can I do?
GT Lee
April 27th, 2012
1:40 pm
Amen FLJ
GT Lee
April 27th, 2012
1:40 pm
@ FLJ if he is hopefully Vad will warn him!!!!!!!
George Stein
April 27th, 2012
1:42 pm
““Even with the big catch/TD run in the Playoffs, Bay-Bay has been slow to develop and has underachieved in his short NFL career.”
WnE today.
“In fact he got 2 years of COACHING by the same WR-coach that Gailey used to develop Calvin Johnson.
Bay-Bay got coached for 2 yrs. first as a RS, and then as a RS-Fr., thne he spent 2 yrs. under CPJ as a RS-soph & RS-Jr., then he went pro.
I guess those 2 years of REAL WR COACHING under Gailey really made the difference for Bay-Bay!”
WnE last evening.
GT Lee
April 27th, 2012
1:42 pm
Super must have gone to the GT Lee School of Sarcasm…….he gets an A lol
Supersize that order, mutt
April 27th, 2012
1:44 pm
LOL @ Lee…..Thanks !!!
atlxman
April 27th, 2012
1:45 pm
richts guys get drafted year after year…most are also jrs which hurt their chances of getting drafted earlier but still they are getting paid where pj pretty much stole millions from dwyer and allen..bay bay was lucky that some crazy coach drafted him high, the same carzy coach that drafted tim tebow in the first round just to sit the bench.. pj offense is a career killer folks, just like wne is trying to tell you guys. but you keep coming up with excuses for pj……
donnans players should thank richt..if not for coach richt they wouldnt have and sec championship ring or fat wallets…unlike pj richt won championships with donnans players and his players too and is about to win another this year…while at tech pj is putting together a team with the best of the div 1aa schools have to offer…its a joke and for glad tech has pj as a coach,,just means more butt kickings by uga.
GTBob
April 27th, 2012
1:47 pm
Compare Bay-Bay to 2 other big WRs that came out of Pro-Style Offenses to see the DAMAGE that CPJ does to WRs NFL careers
I will make that comparison after this season. We will see what he does with Peyton.
GT Lee
April 27th, 2012
1:48 pm
and here comes WnE’s boyfriend…….xman you and WnE (aka Gollum) should hold hands and go skipping merrily off into the sunset…..maybe if you 2 had something to do you wouldn’t have to troll the Tech blogs
George Stein
April 27th, 2012
1:48 pm
“donnans players should thank richt..if not for coach richt they wouldnt have and sec championship ring or fat wallets”
I’m fairly certain they thank Ron Zook for the rings.
Supersize that order, mutt
April 27th, 2012
1:50 pm
@ atlxman …. UGA is about to win an SEC championship this year??? What the hell are you smoking. I want some of that; it must be good stuff. First of all, just like last year, they don’t play anybody, so yes, they might have a clear path to the SEC CG, unless SC can beat all the QUALITY teams that they play. We know SC will beat the mutts, because Spurier ALWAYS beats the mutts, but they might have problems with the REAL SEC teams they have to play. But after playing their usual pansy schedule, the mutts will NEVER win the SEC CG. Bank on it!!!
HighTech
April 27th, 2012
1:51 pm
WnE
April 25th, 2012
5:45 pm
Makes you wonder if something else is hurting our recruiting, like maybe……. mean, judgmental alums that talk “down” to everyone like they are dumb because they aren’t engrs. or they didn’t go to GT, ya know smug, icehole, elitist types.
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WnE
April 27th, 2012
12:46 pm
Suburban White kids can’t be thugs, the only thugs in College sports are at SEC Schools, and Miami and FSU.
My time at GT taught me this much!
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What was your major at Tech before you took the M-train?
atlxman
April 27th, 2012
1:53 pm
george. the two highest drafted players tech has had these last few years were all gailys recruits…you tech fans wont see another tech player get recruited in the first for as long as pj is there…and after this year you might not see any tech player get drafted…uzzi is not getting better by playing in pj offense…he might be the last offensive player to get drafted for tech while pj is their…..richt on the other hand is spitting them out left and right….uga had a first round LB stay to play his jr year in linebacker jarvis jones , this year. uga players have no shortage of drafted players and will not as long as coach richt is their.
GTBob
April 27th, 2012
1:54 pm
while at tech pj is putting together a team with the best of the div 1aa schools have to offer
Let me guess. As soon as one of those div1aa players gets drafted high, CPJ will be criticized for ruining their careers, am I correct?
Supersize that order, mutt
April 27th, 2012
1:54 pm
WnE
April 25th, 2012
5:45 pm
Makes you wonder if something else is hurting our recruiting, like maybe……. mean, judgmental alums that talk “down” to everyone like they are dumb because they aren’t engrs. or they didn’t go to GT, ya know smug, icehole, elitist types.
Or MAYBE it’s mean judgmental pseudo-alums who STALK recruits, trying to get them NOT to come to Tech.
George Stein
April 27th, 2012
1:54 pm
Would you be interested in putting your money where your mouth is, atlxman?