2016 NFL Draft

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uofi09

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Chef Illini said:
Bears swap 2nd round picks with the Bills and get Bills 4th round this year (~19) and 4th round next year (32 because THEY'RE WINNING THE SUPER BOWL!)
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Then the bears down once again with Seattle. What were the details of that trade?
 
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CAHALL15

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Central Illinois
CAHALL15
jrichisamazing said:
Really surprised to see Jack slip so low and Jaylen Smith picked so high. Also, surprised to see Hackenberg picked that high.
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I think the thought of possible microfracture surgery scared a lot of teams away. Plus, who takes a kicker in the 2nd? I know he's really good, but the Bucs could have waited.
 
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Illinijose

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Second and Chalmers said:
What, Ole Miss is

EDIT: I just want to be clear how absolutely ridiculous it is that A. a college kid smoking marijuana and B. a massively valuable and grossly underpaid employee in an $87 million company asking his bosses for a couple hundred bucks to pay the rent are somehow being treated as scandals.
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Don't use or advocate the use of marijuana, do think it has beneficial effects compared to Rx opiod meds. But it is against the rules and somethings legal or not should bve done in private. Regarding rent payments, he was also asking for mom's electric bill. Once again against the rules and where does it stop? Talk about blackmailing the university, see what happened to SMU when they started making payments. I think there should be a Tier payment to some of the athletes at the two revenue sports.
 
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uofi09

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Antonio Morrison just got drafted. Yesterday Vincent Valentine got drafted. Will there be any more former Illinois High School drafted in this years draft? Did I miss any?

I remember really wanting Morrison and Valentine to come to Champaign coming out of high school.
 
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icengineer

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Southern Illinois
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Still no Furg, Gmo, or Fej..... At this point I think they'd prefer going undrafted.
 
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Hoppy2105

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Little Rock, Arkansas
Hoppy2105
Fej's story is pretty awesome. From D-3 recruit to walk on to drafted in the NFL. Just awesome.
 
#117      

Serious Late

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Peoria via Denver via Ann Arbor via Albuquerque vi
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blmillini said:
That is the problem with our society today. He made choices and now he has to live with the consequences. I don't know why on earth anyone would "feel for the kid". Nobody made him do it and he still has the kind of opportunity that very very few kids get.
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Please, no... stop. I don't actually have a real problem with your general sentiment, but the whole "the problem with society today" needs to be a phrase banned from any post, comment, feeling, etc. I am struggling to come up with another way to start a post that doesn't immediately draw eye rolls and and a refusal to consider the rest of the post than saying "the problem with society today". There isn't a real problem with society today, Millennials aren't killing the human race and it is okay to show some measure of compassion for a kid whose social media accounts were hacked and is now being vilified for smoking weed and trying to get his mom's cable bill paid. That has nothing to do with "today's society" and everything to do with the fact that these kids are wildly exposed to scrutiny. It is a pretty tough time to be semi-famous and trying to learn how to be an adult all at once.
 
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Illinijose

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I would of liked to see the Bears stay put in the 2nd round to pick up Derrick Henry (Heisman Winner). Compared to Eddie George on built and running style. Thought he could be a replacement to the RB the Bears just lost.
 
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JSpence

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Evansville, IN
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unimaroon

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Baja Ontario
unimaroon
Serious Late said:
Please, no... stop. I don't actually have a real problem with your general sentiment, but the whole "the problem with society today" needs to be a phrase banned from any post, comment, feeling, etc. I am struggling to come up with another way to start a post that doesn't immediately draw eye rolls and and a refusal to consider the rest of the post than saying "the problem with society today". There isn't a real problem with society today, Millennials aren't killing the human race and it is okay to show some measure of compassion for a kid whose social media accounts were hacked and is now being vilified for smoking weed and trying to get his mom's cable bill paid. That has nothing to do with "today's society" and everything to do with the fact that these kids are wildly exposed to scrutiny. It is a pretty tough time to be semi-famous and trying to learn how to be an adult all at once.
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Thank you
 
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uofi09

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Just wondering, if Mason Manheim continued his football career, what round would he have gone in the draft?