He said he wants to get his family out of the hood, and help them out. Those were his words. Not a mystery.
That's the type of decision-making that creates the hood in the first place. He turned his back on an education to take a long-shot of being a final round draft choice and long-shot of making a roster and playing long enough or well enough to make big money? After taxes, union dues/pension, agents and such, even a high 6-figure salary for a year or two as a marginal player won't last you very long let alone an extended family. Too bad.
I'd put his chances of making a roster at less than 5%. He has 0 skills as a WR and in the NFL there are very, very few return specialists. As the KO is de-emphasized and punts are less and less likely to be returned, this ability is in even less demand.
I thought the same that with the larger field Henderson could be dynamite in the CFL. Enjoyed watching him play at pitt, especially the 2016 game against psu. I hope he got his degree . . .
Return guys don't get practice squad spots. If he can't make a roster, he is a street FA and not a PS option. Chances are better he doesn't even make it to preseason than he gets 1 year of creditable NFL service.
He's not that good, he was no better than 3rd or 4th WR on the team this year.
disagree with improved QB play you saw him get more catches the last 2 games. He didn't need to be a 1k WR to improve his draft position he just had to show he could grab 4 or 5 balls a game and make some NFL team believe they could make a decent 4th wr out of him. Had he done that he would have been drafted in the lower rounds my guess is he is a UFA, but he will get a shot. Its a surprising decision but maybe there were family issues or grade issues. Maybe he simply hated the coaches and wanted out? who knows but on face value it looks like a really bad decision
Hope he makes it. I get it though. He easily could get hurt and he didn't have a great year this year so you may as well strike while the iron is hot. Too bad these players cannot apply, not get picked, and then allowed to come back and play. Doesn't baseball do that?
Heck many guys are close to graduating by now. Since the NCAA started to allow them in scholarship the summer before they enroll and over summers it not unheard of for an athlete to graduate in 3 years.
Ummm...well, let's for one second assume he is a good student and he just needs another year (basically on track a semester early) to graduate. He goes and tries this NFL thing for 2 years. He has little chance to make any money in the NFL, beyond camp checks. In order to even try to make the NFL he will spend thousands of dollars to train, eat, and temporarily live wherever he is training. I'd bet he spends tens of thousands of dollars more than he makes the next couple of years chasing the NFL. If he settles for CFL, he probably barely makes ends meet.
Agencies cover some cost of training for guys they expect to get a return on. They generally do not do that for likely UDFAs and those guys are responsible for those costs or enter into high interest loans against their future earnings. In fact, the NFLPA even tried to include that as a point in their recent CBA negotiations because of how bad it had gotten. For a guy like Q, he would be lucky if an agent floated him a week's worth of just training, without living, food, etc. Anything else would be on him. Many players go into very, very bad debt to train. Costs are $15-30k for a month of specialized training and living, before even considering costs if the guy has a family or your everyday other expenses or vices. So, even if he just does that for a month before the combine/workouts he adds $15K of debt just trying to get drafted, even if he doesn't do that for the next two years to increase his chances. And, of course, he won't have another job for the next 9+ months while he tries to get into the league. So, consider the training costs of $15K for that month and (easily) another $3K in general living expenses for the other 8 months, he is in the hole almost $40k before the NFL season with a best case of getting paid about $6k in checks before he would make the regular season roster and get paid.
He’s a well below average receiver actually; a decent punt returner but showed very little in kickoffs this year.
This has UFA written all over it. Hope he can get some work as a specialist somewhere...
