Cool Brandon Spikes article at patriots.com

[O-town Gator]

"Too often NFL talent evaluators will take a great college player’s accomplishments and throw them out the window because that player doesn’t measure up at the NFL Combine. Cries of a player being too slow, too small or not smart enough often cause talented players to drop. What these people sometimes seem to forget is that you can’t measure everything about a player.

With that in mind the New England Patriots ignored the draft analysts and drafted Florida tackling machine Brandon Spikes with their third second-round pick in the 2010 NFL draft."



Read more at: http://www.patriots.com/news/index.cfm?ac=latestnewsdetail&pid=43330&pcid=41&cp

 

[FrozenGator]

I think a better measure of whether he'll do well is to ask players with fast 40 times this question:
Would you like to line up on the other side of the ball from Brandon Spikes?

If they say "No. I would not like that," then I think we can overlook a slower race time.

I'm glad the Patriots did, that's for sure.

 

[GainesvillebornNraised]

i hope spikes, hernandez and cunningham all do great this season


we really havent had much good NFL talent turn out right but i got high hopes for these guys


i think hernandez is gonna get his shine this seasn hope the other guys do too

 

[Leakfan12]

I hope that Cunningham and Spikes are two of the starting linebackers. Maybe not to start the season but maybe half away of next season.