If you were to look up the word naïve, or perhaps foolish, with their picture by the definition would be former Florida State quarterback Xavier Lee.
Lee announced on Monday that he would be skipping his senior season at Florida State due to the fact they wanted to move him to tight end. With Drew Weatherford and sophomore Christian Ponder slated to battle it out for the starting job, and Lee’s off-field transgressions, he was clearly out of the mix.
However, instead of taking coach Jimbo Fisher up on his offer to become a tight end and ready himself for the inevitable transition he would have to make to play at the next level, Lee chose to walk out on the school and pursue his NFL dreams. While pursuing one’s NFL dream is all fine and good, for Lee to do it assuming that a team will draft him and put in under center is ludicrous.
Sadly, despite his talent and obvious skills, he has been a bust at FSU and had shown absolutely no signs of turning it around. Who knows how he may have developed after a year at the tight end slot. With his talent, a need for tight ends at the next level and a chance for some big playing time with the ‘Noles, anything was possible. Instead, he will have to sit through that late-April day and wait and wait until finally he hears his name called and is told that he is like a ‘project’.
Of course, in five years Lee might be the best thing since sliced bread in the NFL and I could look like an idiot but for now, this appears to be a terrible decision, along the lines of fellow bust, Oklahoma State’s Bobby Reid.Labels: Bobby Reid, Xavier Lee |
