First guy to go from Mr. Football to Mr. Irrelevant?

I see Atlanta drafting him and Weatherford for a two QB system where a reciever must possess psychic abilities in order to anticipate if the ball will be severely under or overthrown.

The X factor, ironically, in all of this, is when your crowned Mr. Everything on the high school level, the one thing that gets overlooked is that you must play against MEN, not Boys, when you suit up for the first time in Div 1 college footbawwww, unless your name is Tim Tebow, then of course you were born a man…..

I have a son being born on Friday, kinda up in the air about names…..would like to go with
Xavier De’brickashaw Effin Nelson Tebowski.com,Jr

gatorhippy,

Not even the only one from the state of Florida. And two of them went to FSU:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Mr._Football_Award

On a side note, why the hell was Adrian McPherson ever on the Saints?

From the lead-in I thought the story was about this kid going directly from HS to the pros and wondered 1) why hadn’t I heard of him and 2) what effect would that type of behavior would have on the “pro football player factories” in the South. Then I saw the FSU reference which answered question 1 and mooted 2.

Willie Lee – his parents were so ashamed of him, they only gave him a first and middle name.

And Xavier Lee could’ve joined Dan Kendra in the Hall of Former FSU Quarterbacks Moved to Oddly Unquarterbacky Positions.

Yes – it’s an actual place – just off FAMU’s campus, I believe.

Perhaps he’ll hire Josh Portis’ mom as his agent.

He didn’t really have the option to transfer. A player with only one year of eligibility remaining can’t transfer to 1-AA or D2, he would have had to go NAIA.

It’s no secret FSU’s QB development has been shit since Richt left, but he was given a clean state when Fisher came in and he killed that goodwill.

He probably should have given TE a shot if he was interested in a sniff at the NFL. AF2 here he comes!

1. - Seeing as how you have to wait three years after your high school class graduates to enter the NFL, i.e. a true junior or a redshirt sophomore, well you get the idea.

Weatherford has another year, so I guess you mean when Drew comes out next season, which would be funny.

I hear Atlanta could use a mobile QB………must love animals though…….as long as he can run, their offense is set up for a running, non throwing QB, at least thats what they have done the last 3 yrs……

Yea maybe he could be in the Arena League. A starter in that makes 150k. More than that boy would make in any other job I gotta damn well believe.

College football recruiting really makes me laugh. Ever check out the recruiting message boards like Rivals or Scout? It is high comedy reading about these fans obsessing over some star rating of a player they have never seen in person, and who probably won’t see the field any time soon.

Even funnier are the characters on these boards. There’s always one guy who has the “inside scoop” and usually a legion of followers who eat up everything he posts.

Sure, Willie Lee. Why not instruct your Son to stay and play it out 1 more year while in the meantime receiving a FREE COLLEGE EDUCATION?!?

Idiots.

I’m willing to wager that Lee will impress scouts enough at the combine to get drafted in the late rounds and he’ll earn league minimum carrying a clipboard for a couple of years before a QB of the future is drafted by whatever team he ends up with.

Lets see, who do we have coming out this year….mmmm theres Steve Slaton, Xavier Lee, D Mac,
Felix Jones….Dmac being the only “true” full time RB, the rest will be on return duty somewhere…..hope that kid can play defense…I dont think the pros have a “ATH” position like many college teams have…..

Drew Weatherford’s coming back for another year indicates his toughness and dedication to the team. Or his absolute commitment to fucking Xavier Lee’s life up.

When Hurney and Fox draft him for Charlotte (a la David Carr, our QB of the pastfuture), I’m gonna start pullin for Dallas after I commit suicide.

What else was he going to do? – um, graduate? He’s going to be needing some new skills real soon, seeing how his football skills aren’t going to wind up quite as valuable as he once anticipated.

And yoyofutbawl, we don’t have to worry about Fox and Hurney drafting Xavier Lee. Rather than spend the time developing a QB, they’d rather just take the guess work out of it and pick someone up from somewhere else where he couldn’t hack it and hope he magically gets better (which actually worked with Delhomme, but isn’t much of a strategy).

@ yoyofutbawl -

Man, if those 2 clowns pull that move, I’ll join you in pulling for Dallas, a team I hate more than Satan BTW.

As for Mr. Lee, he ain’t the only one.

I offer up as Exhibit B one Brandon Miller. If only he would’ve moved to DE before the GA Tech game of his Sr. year….

cough Terrell Pryor cough…..

Since we’re marginally on the topic: I knew Florida high school football was intense… but DAMN!
http://thebiglead.com/?p=4177
(p.s. turn your speakers down, unless Martin Scorsece is your boss)

If the X-Man gave the world nothing else, he turned in a damn fine performance against ally-bammer in Jacksonville in ’07.

Xavier Lee, we Aubs salute you.

#23
Yeh but since he shared the same field as JPW, the transitive effect took over and he was doomed…..trust me, we cant kill JPW, he wont die…only performs enought to survive, only as good as his last let down….the only glimmer of hope is that yall let BOOM Motherfocker get away….

Paco, I would say E.J. Manuel has a better chance of becoming the next Xavier Lee.

#24

And thus, JPW steps into the void left by the eligibility expiration of Brandon SV Cox (minus the wins, of course).

Mallet to Arkansas
http://arkansas.rivals.com/barrier_noentry.asp?sid=&script=content.asp&cid=761558&fid=&tid=&mid=&rid=

If Lee was this much of a disappointment, we’re going to have to create a new adjective to describe the epic failure that will be Jimmy Clausen

19: He’s a football player at FSU. I’m guessing chances are he’d need more than another year to graduate unless he can fill up a schedule with online classes with a good tutor.

You realize, of course, that he would be returning for his fifth year. So he’s probably just a mere 60 hours or so short of graduating.

He’ll probably go to the combine, run a 4.35, have a 42 inch vertical, thus further scrambling the brains of NFL personnel guys who are still trying to figure out why All-Pro CB Antonio Cromartie wasn’t even issued a jock strap during his tour of Tallahassee.

Antonio Cromartie blew out his knee and had to sit out his entire junior year and decided to go pro instead of coming back for his senior year. The amazing thing is that the Chargers had enough foresight to draft him in the 1st round.

#31, I’m beginning to believe A.J. Smith sold his soul to the devil for his evaluation skills. Or maybe he gets a football team of gold and to keep his soul if the Chargers beat the devils handmade team the Patriots this weekend (a la the fiddle competition in Devil Went Down to Georgia).

Clausen may end up being a failure. But, seriously, have you seen the FSU guys play QB? These guys are in their 4th year…surrounded by other highly recruited upperclassman teammates…and they look like Casey Dick throwing left-handed on weed.

From what I saw of Clausen this year, he just looked like a 190 lb kid who was given 0.5 secs to throw the ball before the four DL jailbreak kicked his teeth in. Now that, like Bowden tutelage, may scar your psyche to the point of implosion, but for now the jury is still out.

#33
He wanted the limelight of ND, and he got it. Do you think he does much better next season @ 200 lbs and given 0.7 seconds? If he survives his first 3 seasons under First Down Jesus, I hope his senior campaign ends up just short of respectable. And then he can climb back into that stretch Hummer and enjoy the ride to obscurity.

I was able to see Lee play in high school, and he was damn talented at that level. Unfortunately, he was never able to achieve that type of success in college. Though, I’ve heard from more than one person that it’s because he never learned the playbook. And that’s after being there for four years so interpret it however you want to.

#34…

will the future turn into whatever Clausen thought it might be when he was a dreamy-eyed 24 yr old HS senior?…..well, one would doubt it, but who the hell knows. suffice it to say, just by being the starter, it seems like he has already cleared the very low Xavier Lee hurdle.